newspapers

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/18/2020
  

  The Answer to the Media Industry’s Woes? Publicly Owned Newspapers.

  by Victor Pickard

  Local democracy requires coverage of local news. As the commercial media fail to provide it, it's time to reconsider the history of municipal newspapers.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/17/2020
  

  Here’s Looking at You, Grid: A History of Crosswords and Their Fans

  by Peter Sagal

  Like a good crossword, her book challenges us to back away from our assumptions, allows us to think differently and apply ourselves again.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  2/28/2020
  

  Website Aims to Highlight Hidden Figures in Black History

  Historian Matthew Delmont's website Black Quotidian features profiles of hundreds of African Americans taken from black newspapers mostly between the 1900s and the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  The Chicago Defender, Legendary Black Newspaper, Prints Last Copy

  For generations of black Americans, The Defender, influential and tough, was a force: “You knew it didn’t happen if it wasn’t in The Defender.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10-3-2013
  

  When Anarchy Ruled the Funny Pages

  A new, large-format book captures the dawn of comics, when the medium had no rules and its messages were surprisingly irreverent.

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• Is the Press Too Big to Fail?

  by Todd Gitlin

  Image via Shutterstock.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com