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• SOURCE: Kansas City Star
  12/20/2020
  

  When Civil Rights Movement Marched Forward, The Kansas City Star Lagged Behind

  The Kansas City Star begins a series reckoning with its failures to cover local protests for civil rights.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/21/2020
  

  My Life in the Media Machine

  by Tom Scocca

  Independent journalism has been in a decades-long death spiral because "the circulatory system of money that had made the writing possible was punctured and bleeding out, and draining into Silicon Valley."

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• SOURCE: Humanities New York
  9/15/2020
  

  Lampooning Political Women

  by Allison K. Lange

  Backlash against women's emancipation in the nineteenth century took to the most potent social media of the day--political cartoons--to decry feminism as a threat to civilization itself. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  The Pentagon is Missing the Big Picture on "Stars and Stripes"

  by Mark T. Hauser

  The Pentagon's plan to scrap funding for the Stars and Stripes newspaper isn't just an attack on a historic military institution. It's ignoring the lessons the paper's history offers for efficient operation and integrating military operations with the economic life of the nation. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/24/2020
  

  How a Political Dispute Over the Early American Postal System Could Have Jeopardized the Whole U.S. Constitution

  by Robert W.T. Martin

  The nation has always depended on systems for sharing information and ideas. Disruptions to those systems can be devastating. Ask the Anti-Federalists. 

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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

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