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 newspaper business model is simply not flexible enough to undergo such a dramatic transformation—especially given the increasingly competitive online news industry.
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.