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This article gives a history rundown of the first African American newspaper. It goes through who was involved and what the purpose of the paper was for. This paper gave a voice for the African American people.

This journal article is very descriptive of the turnaround from 6 cent papers to penny papers. It tells the story of Benjamin Day and how he changed past newspapers into the modern, mass media newspapers that we see today (whether print or web). Benjamin Day aimed at a cheaper newspaper with more content for New Yorker's alone, not just businessmen / politicians. In doing so, he also created a business model in which is still being used in some aspects today.

Talks about what the problem is newspapers are facing. Also talks about what the newspaper is like today and argues that amozon and Jeff Bezos is helping the newspapers.

thought this was something we might want to use if we are going to refrence local papers

This is a video of how the USA today newspaper is printed, This would be a really good video because it shows how much printing papers has changed.

This is a picture of production of papers today and shows what the inside of a printing factory looks like.

This site gives five reasons why the newspaper will survive. For example they argue that smaller newspapers especially will survive because small town, local news won't be printed into bigger papers or on the internet. They also list off what the newspaper industry is doing in order to survive.

USA Today President and Publisher Larry Kramer said at a panel in New York that the paper is "exploring" a paywall, Keith J. Kelly reports. Reached by email, Kramer told Poynter, "No plan exists. We're studying it." Kramer also said the paper will remove its trademark white boxes from some locations, Kelly reports. It expects sales from such boxes to decline by about one-third after a planned price hike from $1 to $2 next Monday: "Most people are not going to have eight quarters in their pocket," Kramer told the panel

funnys news paper ad video maybe good for one of our videos to share

Picture of stack of papers we could use in our wiki.

If news papers and newsrooms die off... here is one of the major issue in the present and future of news

Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has agreed to buy The Washington post for $250 million cash. Includes the Grahm family's feelings toward the deal and what made Bezo's an attractive buyer.

i thought this was usefull because it show us the history of one of our own local papers

An article by Jeff Mascot who believes there is no possible way for the newspaper industry to survive. 

This article is about the 1962-1963 newspaper blackout, which lasted 114 days. This blackout was caused by strikes from 9 major newspaper companies. This article shows the impact that this strike caused to the future of the newspaper industry.

Arianna Huffington talks about how new technology will play a part in the papers future, but journalism will stay strong since journalists have new ways of gathering more information than in the past

As it encapsulates one era that has passed, it also has the potential to expand the era we are in. This combining of the best of traditional media with the potential of digital media represents an opportunity to move from the future of newspapers to the future of journalism - in whatever form it's delivered. After all, despite dire news about the state of the newspaper industry, we are in something of a golden age of journalism for news consumers.

A long article about the present state of newspapers. Includes information about selling the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch. Includes names of many journalists that may be important. 

This is another website that talks a little bit more about the Newspaper Preservation Act and its purpose. It also talks about how it promotes competition and keeps failing newspapers alive.

An idea for the future newspapers which would eliminate cutting down trees for paper. It is a roll out screen that is made for reading newspapers and magazines.

The chief economist at Google , Hal Varian, has given an interesting little speech looking into the economics of the newspaper industry. No, they're not entirely doomed, as some think, but they do need some changes. Most importantly, it would be good if we all read them for a little longer while at work each day. The general points made are all entirely reasonable: most of us who have been reading about this subject will know many of them already. Newspaper circulation has been in decline for decades, it's not just the internet. News was never what made the money, it was the advertising in the other parts of the paper that did. The battle is really about, whether online or offline, gaining access to some fragment of our attention span. Gain that and the industry can still be profitable and so on. All good points. But the two that were new to me