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The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media 9th ed. (1999), standard textbook; best place to start. Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003) Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States. (2014). ISBN 978-1442225930
1938 the council communist magazine International Council Correspondence changes its name to Living Marxism. In 1942 it becomes New Essays. Its editor since 1934 had been Paul Mattick. 1945 Foundation of Commentary, published on behalf of the American Jewish Committee. it later became a leading neo-conservative publication.
In the late 20th century, much of American journalism merged into big media conglomerates (principally owned by media moguls like Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch). With the coming of digital journalism in the 21st Century, newspapers faced a business crisis as readers turned to the internet for news and advertisers followed them.
The history of American journalism began in 1690, when Benjamin Harris published the first edition of "Public Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestic" in Boston. Harris had strong trans-Atlantic connections and intended to publish a regular weekly newspaper along the lines of those in London, but he did not get prior approval and his paper was suppressed after a single edition. [1]
Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. (1978). excerpt and text search; Sloan, W. David, James G. Stovall, and James D. Startt. The Media in America: A History, 4th ed. (1999) Streitmatter, Rodger. Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History (1997)online edition Archived 2009-02-20 at the ...
The Media in America: A History, 4th ed. (1999) Startt, James D. and W. David Sloan. Historical Methods in Mass Communication. (1989) Streitmatter, Rodger. Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History (3rd ed. 2011) excerpt; 1997 edition online; Vaughn, Stephen L., ed. Encyclopedia of American journalism (Routledge ...
"Old media" as an idea only ever existed because "new media" does. In the research of Simone Natale, the use of the term "old media" in a survey of books only began to become popular in the late twentieth century once the developments of new media, such as the Internet, became widely available. Natale writes of old media as a social construct ...
[12] Many newspapers also suffer from the broad trend toward "fragmentation" of all media—in which small numbers of large media outlets attempting to serve substantial portions of the population are replaced by an abundance of smaller and more specialized organizations, often aiming only to serve specific interest groups.