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This website talks about how the newspaper industry needs to start reinventing itself in order to stay in competition with other industries. It suggests that embracing the internet will be more beneficial rather than fighting it. It also talks about past industries that have contributed to the decline in newspapers (TV Broadcasting).

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.

The future of newspapers and issuing a paywall. Also talks about a metered paywall. New business models. 

This website talks about the Newspaper Prevention Act of 1970. It defines what the act entails and goes a little in depth as to how it works. Also indirectly talks about the joining of newspapers/ Joint Operating Agreement.

This is a cool websites that talks about how technology will impact our newspapers. It describes what sort of things this new digital newspaper will be able to do. For example it will tell you what's going on where you live, but also automatically know where you are.

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. 

Has this newspaper changed in your lifetime? Yes, it has. It's changed in the last year alone. It's evolved many times in its 146-year history, and it will continue to do so as it reflects the makeup of our community. The mere fact The News-Review has been in existence for 146 years and remains a daily habit for 32,000 readers ought to make you skeptical of reports that say newspapers are dying.

Statistics on the present state of newspapers. A chart from the Newspaper Association of America showing advertising expenditures.  "Journalism is not dead, it is just evolving."

Statistics on the present state of newspapers. A chart from the Newspaper Association of America showing advertising expenditures.  "Journalism is not dead, it is just evolving."

It would be hard to single out just one mistake from the news industry's fumbled transition to the Internet era. But the most important newspaper publisher in America-Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. of the New York Times-says one stumble sticks out among the rest. "Engineers. That's what we didn't focus on fast enough," Sulzberger says.

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

If the digital revolution has done nothing else, it has exposed the extent to which American newspapers have relied on their quasi-monopolistic control over local advertising markets to fund news operations. CW Anderson, Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky, in their valuable report last year, called it a "subsidy," and that's a provocative way to put it.

Discusses the idea of a National Endowment for Journalism.

Gives lots and lots of great information(including some vocab) about how and why newspapers are where they are today and the people who helped make it what it is.

This is a website about Johannes Gutenberg. It just talks about his life and the background story of his life changing invention of the printing press.

This website gives a brief overview of how yellow journalism evolved and describes the battle between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hears. It also explains what yellow journalism is in more detail.

This is a website that talks about the invention of the printing press. It gives some good information about life before the printing press as well. I think this is a good website to help us with the technology portion.

This article gives us a possible outlook on the future of online newspaper websites. Video journalism is an emerging trend, and it provides greater economical benefits from its advertisements than regular web based ads. This can help move some forms of online news from paywalls to being "free to the public", since they make up for profits with advertisements.

The earliest written news is known as the Acta Diurna. This form of news, which was usually either carved into stone or metal, was developed in Ancient Rome. Julius Caesar was responsible for allowing it to become available to the public.

Yet another view of the history and development of the newspaper. While brief, this page shows very important key events that took place in advancing the newspaper to the newspapers of today.

Article on the history of newspapers, where they began and how they quickly came to progress over the years.

bried history of the newspaper and how it got to where it is today