Newspapers : a reference guide
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Newspapers : a reference guide
(American popular culture)
Greenwood Press, 1987
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
Newspapers provides a historical context for the books discussed in its readable essays and will be invaluable for anyone researching the history or role of newspapers in American life. Booklist
Professionals and scholars will find Newspapers: A Reference Guide useful. In it Schwarzlose supplies a thorough list of published works on newspaper topics. Adweek
This reference guide provides a broad-based and comprehensive introduction to the literature about and by newspapers, and views them as multi-faceted sociocultural phenomena. Following an introduction that outlines the history of American newspapers from their European antecedents to their forseeable future, the book examines the extensive literature on the history of newspapers in its regional and period dimensions, and biographical material on newspaper personalities, representing all levels and periods of journalists. This carefully constructed sourcebook includes an extensive discussion of the literature on the techniques and theories of producing newspapers, a section on the collections and anthologies of newspapers and their writers, and a thorough examination of the voluminous and rapidly changing literature on some of the critical issues facing newspapers today.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Histories of Newspapers Newspaper People at Work: Before the Twentieth Century Newspaper People at Work: During the Twentieth Century The Work of Newspaper People Producing Newspapers Newspapers and Society Newspapers and the Law Newspapers and Technology References and Periodicals about Newspapers Appendix 1: Selected Chronology of Newspapers Appendix 2: Major Research Collections Index
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