JCA Fall 2013 Mass Comm-Newspaper

A short article explaining how the stamp act would change the way newspapers were to be distributed

An interview with an archivist at the smithsonian museum tells how journalism came about

An interview with an author on how to bring american journalism back to where it used to be

Article giving details about freedom of the press starting from the bill of rights

A short article discussing how the printing press changed histoy

Great article on how today's newspapers influence society

A list of the top newspapers in leading the latest news

An article about Benjamin Franklin and his involvement with developing the New England Courant

This webpage gives a brief description of a few forms of media, along with the pros and cons to each. In addition to the descriptions, it also provides a graph showing how well each form of media is doing compared to the others.

This article provides a very straightforward approach to what the newspaper industry must do to survive. In a nutshell, newspaper companies must transition their businesses over to be accessed digitally, otherwise they will die out.

This webpage describes how newspapers have come from their first appearances in Europe to the modern day newspaper. Most of the changes that occurred to newspapers throughout history are because of technical advances.

Johann Carolus is dubbed the inventor of the newspaper itself. This webpage describes how he created one through the use of a printing press during the Renaissance.

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.

The first ten United States newspapers and when they came out. 

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

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.

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.

This article from State of the Media gives many different statistics about how the newspaper industry is holding up nowadays. The majority of these statistics are graphs showing how advertisement revenue is increasing and decreasing based upon it being online / print. Most of this information is from 1990 to present day.

This gives us a very spread out history of the Partisan Press that I think will help with the project. Even gives information on Pulitzer and Hurst, the Penny Press and more

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.