This webpage goes more in-depth of the history of the Associated Press in 1848 than the book does. The Associated Press is when six New York newspapers combined together to make a wire service.
This could be a precursor to what is to come in the future. This newspaper website has decided to drop its paywall. Instead of a paywall, the website is now providing an "enhanced design and layout" option that will cost $2.99 a week for its customers.
While not a particular article, this webpage on Poynter provides multiple accounts for which newspaper companies are laying off workers in the past couple weeks / months. Could be useful in providing statistics for how the newspaper industry is declining.
Another article about the inverted pyramid style of organization. This describes the history of inverted pyramid and how changes to traditional story telling have changed because of it.
This is an article about why the inverted pyramid style of organization is controversial in journalism today. This is a helpful article for understanding how this style of writing developed over the years, and how it is now considered outdated.
An interesting webpage describing a brief history of comic strips in newspapers. The author of the page brings up how characters like Popeye and Tarzan were created through comic strips in newspapers.
This is a timeline of comic strips in newspapers. This is an important piece to the history of newspapers since it accounts for some of the revenue that physical newspapers create.
Another topic about what the difference between blogging and journalism is. While still an opinion, this discussion includes multiple viewpoints, including some professional journalists viewpoints.
This article describes multiple opinions about what the main difference between blogging and journalism. With the rise of online newspaper websites, the argument over blogging vs. journalism is becoming a big role in the newspaper industry.
This video describes that while the rest of the world has a major decline in newspaper revenue, India's newspaper industry is actually growing. The youth of India prefer to purchase newspapers, instead of switching over to their digital versions.
This is a short article involving the statistics of the newspaper industry. It is the fastest shrinking industry in America, even with the development of online sites and apps for tablets / smart phones.
This article from CNN provides input about what can be done to improve the newspaper industry and bring in more business. The idea involves changing the quality of the "app" versions of newspapers to fit more to the consumer and other similarities to website versions as well.
"I'll probably read a print newspaper until I die. And that's a problem for the newspaper business; its most loyal customers are closer to death than to birth."
This is another article about how the newspaper industry is currently doing. It provides statistics for the top newspapers around today.
This is an interesting article about how the newspaper industry has changed over the span of a single man's career. He describes how the profits involved are decreasing exponentially, and how less and less jobs are available for this industry.
This academic journal talks about how changes are being implemented in the way that paywalls work. Micropayment services are changing the way that newspaper websites and blogger websites will work. In a sense, the more views that a page gets viewed, the blogger / artist / journalist can get a "tip" from the the viewers.
This website shows a few pictures of early American newspaper advertisements. Its interesting to see how far newspapers and ads have come since colonial times. These pics could possibly be used in the past section of our pbworks page.
This journal article describes how advertisement has changed over the years and how it first appeared in newspapers. Advertisement is an important part of the development of newspapers as it typically brings in a lot of the money for newspapers to continue and grow.
This video from the history channel demonstrates the importance of Johannes Gutenburg and the invention of moveable type with the printing press. While aimed more towards the printing of books, the printing press was definitely a major keystone for newspapers and news itself to be spread.
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.