Week of March 9, 2009
News Item: The Rocky Mountain News, a daily newspaper from Denver, Colorado, published its final edition on February 27, 2009. Many papers across the country could face similar problems if potential buyers are not found, while others such as the Chicago Tribune are seeking bankruptcy protection. Also, the Christian Science Monitor will soon become a weekly paper, cease its daily print editions, and rely mainly on the Web as a means of publishing its news. Is this the end of traditional newspapers as we know them? (Democracy Now! reported on this topic last week)
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American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media
By Neil Henry. U of California Press, 2007
Call Number: PN4888 .E8 H46 2007
Breach of Faith: A Crisis of Coverage in the Age of Corporate Newspapering
By Gene Roberts. U of Arkansas Press, 2002
Call Number: PN4867 .B674 2002 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL services)
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
By David Nasaw. Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Call Number: Z473 .H4 N37 2000
Commitment to Freedom: The Story of the Christian Science Monitor
By Erwin D. Canham. Houghton Mifflin, 1958
Call Number: PN4899 .B65 C53
Conversations on Convergence: Insiders’ Views of News Production in the Twenty-First Century
By Stephen Quinn. Peter Lang, 2006
Call Number: PN4731 .Q57 2006
Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers
By Pablo J. Boczkowski. MIT Press, 2004
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate
By Alexander Cockburn. AK Press, 2007
Call Number: PN4867.2 .C63 2007 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL services)
E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers
By Gerald J. Baldasty. U of Illinois Press, 1999
Call Number: PN4874 .S37 B35 1999
Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps’s Chicago Experiment
By Duane C. S. Stoltzfus. U of Illinois Press, 2007
Call Number: PN4899 .C375 D398 2007
Internet Newspapers: The Making of a Mainstream Medium
Edited by Xigen Li. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006
Call Number: PN4833 .I62 2006
Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism is Putting Democracy at Risk
By Davis Merritt. AMACOM–American Management Association, 2005
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering
Edited by Gene Roberts. U of Arkansas Press, 2001
Call Number: PN4867 .L38 2001
Liberty and the Press: A History of the Chicago Tribune’s Fight to Preserve a Free Press for the American People
By Philip Kinsley. The Chicago Tribune, 1944
Call Number: Z657 .K58
The Murdoch Mission: The Digital Transformation of a Media Empire
By Wendy Goldman Rohm. J. Wiley, 2002
Call Number: P92.5 .M87 R64 2002
Newspaper Competition in the Millennium
Edited by Janet A. Bridges et al. Nova Science, 2006
Call Number: PN4738 .B75 2006
The Postwar Decline of American Newspapers, 1945-1965: The History of American Journalism
By David R. Davies. Praeger, 2006
Call Number: PN4867 .D39 2006
Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News
By David T. Z. Mindich. Oxford UP, 2005
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age
By Philip Meyer. U of Missouri Press, 2004
Call Number: PN4867.2 .M48 2004
Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers?: Essays on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age
Edited by Yvonne Carignan. Scarecrow Press, 2005
Call Number: Z701.3 .S38 W48 2005
William Randolph Hearst: A Portrait in His Own Words
Edited by Edmond D. Coblentz. Simon & Schuster, 1952
Call Number: PN4874 .H4 A3