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Focuses on the origin and growth of Boston, Massachusetts' newspaper "Boston Phoenix." Influence of the newspaper on Boston' liberal paper "Globe"; Difficulties faced by the paper over editorial content and management; Operating losses suffered by the "Boston Phoenix"; Circulation of the newspaper in 1972.

Tabloid journalism in New York is only seven years old. The history of its growth makes a mushroom seem like a century plant. Tabloids have been appearing all over the country since Joseph Medill Patterson started it. Less important newspaper publishers hopped on the bandwagon, and Bernarr Macfadden, who whelps magazines in litters, decided to get in line. It is said that the inception of the News was due to an earnest desire on the part of Patterson to lose money. The year 1918 saw the Chicago Tribune pile up more profits than ever before in its highly prosperous career.

In this article the author presents information related to the emerging technologies in mass media in the U.S. during 1939. Wires now carrying news pictures and offset presses already installed in printing plants are jointly humming a song, and newspapermen know it to facilities are available. be a song of social significance. A photograph of an eight-column newspaper page can be sent by wire as easily as a photograph of an airplane crash. These developments come as a shock to the newspaper business because, while it has played a considerable part in developing the transmission of photographs by wire, it has not been equally aware of changes in the commercial-printing industry.

The article focuses on Channel 9, a television station, aided by a $5,000-a-week grant from the Ford Foundation, which began presenting its daily "Newspaper of the Air" from 7:30 to 8:30 each night on the third day of the first major newspaper strike in San Francisco, California. Since the beginning of this special project in early January, KQED, which is prob- ably the nation's most successful educational television station, has built up the largest audience in its fourteen year history.

There has just ended another stage in an encroaching monopoly control over the U.S. press. Within an interval of a year or perhaps two, a further stage will begin to unfold. Then, one after another, newspapers over the country, particularly the small-town and country press, will begin to fall victims to the process. Such has been the experience in the past. It can only repeat itself. The International Paper and Power Company, which by its own boast occupies a position in the newsprint industry "unique in corporate history," has obtained a virtual monopoly on the whole North American paper market. This corporation not only dictates practically throughout the world the price at which newsprint shall be sold, but establishes entirely at its own pleasure the term of years for which its contracts shall run.

This article focuses on the use of dirty words in the U.S. college newspaper work since the advent of journalism schools. As the novelty and sense of outrage wear off, it can't be seen that the excitement over a few specks of dirt on the pages of college papers merely emphasizes the bland homogeneity of campus journalism in general. If people raise hell over the language in a paper, the new breed of editors argue, at least they are reading and responding to the paper which is a refreshing change from the nonreading habits of most student newspaper subscribers.

This article focuses on the influence of the newspaper "Manchester Union Leader," on the New Hampshire presidential primary elections. Presidential primaries, however, are the only continuing event in New Hampshire that attracts more than passing attention from out-of-state media. It follows, then, that the Union Leader's influence is strongest in state politics, where it encounters no effective competition. Any candidate for major office in New Hampshire, regardless of race, religion, creed or party, will receive Union Leader support if he reflects the political philosophy of the paper.

Americans are supposed to be the greatest newspaper readers in the world. In England there are the well-known morning dailies, dull and decorous, taken in by everybody, as much a matter of course as the daily supply of bread and milk; and there are the political and literary weeklies, several ably edited, with a very limited subscription list, however. Many cater to the hobby of a special class, whether it be a particular branch of sport or society gossip and scandal; for while the Englishman lavishes abuse upon the gossiping tone of Americans papers, he carefully reserves separate organs for his own society news, so that he may always know exactly where to find it, and he able to take it in large doses all at once.

In mid-September 1958, the Los Angeles Times sniffed disaster in the air. In a lead editorial, the paper warned: "Threatening liberty in California seems as irrational as denying the existence of the Sierra Madre, California. This is the appearance. Nevertheless, there is the threat." Among other frights, the Times predicted that "the two-party system would collapse," if the disaster struck. Moreover, the editorial continued, "It is hard to believe that Republicans and Democrats, will let their liberty go by default. While the Times covers major news stories in detail, the paper devotes increasing attention to interpretation, and has no plans to compete with The New York Times as a journal of record. The paper, Los Angeles Times perhaps too self-conscious of its past nibbles at its targets but rarely bites.

The amazing thing about "PM," New York's forthcoming afternoon tabloid, is that it is based on the ideas of people who said it could never be done. For despite the advance publicity given to such new manufacturing gadgets as frozen ink and a revolving color scheme, "PM," represents first of all a revolt against the prevailing modes of American journalism. It refutes the long-established credo, papers with advertising can't be honest and papers without advertising can't exist. "PM," will be a liberal, mass-circulation newspaper, but unlike its predecessors that have died aborning or been driven from their chosen course, it will not attempt to exist on the sufferance of reactionary forces. It has kicked over the controls that keep newspapers from attaining ideal journalistic excellence and social objectivity.

The article presents information on a Supreme Court case between "The Detroit News" and the "Detroit Free Press." The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on a proposed joint-operating agreement between The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. At stake, along with billions of dollars in monopoly profits for the nation's two largest newspaper chains, is the fate of the dwindling daily newspaper competition in U.S. cities. The Court will be taking its first look at the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 and quite possibly its last. The act lets two papers in the same city merge their business sides into a joint-operating agreement, with news functions remaining theoretically separate, if one paper is "failing."

This article presents information regarding the presents of Mike Miller of Mike Miller Toyota, a major advertiser in the "Los Angeles Times", and Bob Zacky of the Zacky Farms chicken dynasty. Zacky of the Zacky Farms chicken dynasty. Many interpreted their presence in the Times's box as a form of corporate apology for the paper's aggressive reporting, which had allegedly upset both men recently. But even today, the Times remains a house of many mansions. Steve Wasserman runs a remarkably literate weekly book review section, for example, whose uncompromising ethos would seem to contradict everything that is said about the paper. It is a paper, in other words, with a lot of decline left in it, even though the Willes/Downing forces appear almost certain to prevail in the end.

Presents a survey of the competition among daily newspapers in cities of the U.S. Function of more than 150 newspaper chains functioning in the United States; Focus on Chicago as the biggest newspaper town in the country; Use of the present rate of expansion as an indicator of the fact that daily newspapers will be owned by chains in a few years; Exercise of business acumen and consolidation of industry proceeds by newspaper publishers.

This article reports on the fight going on inside the "Washington Times" in efforts to bring the publication more inline with mainstream media. The Times has been an extension of the conservative agenda since its founding in 1982 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Moon's son, Preston, is looking for an editor who will temper the right-wing ideas, especially in light of the racist and sexist atmosphere that has been stoked by editor in chief Wesley Pruden and managing editor Francis Coombs.

Comments on the market competition among newspapers that has changed the role of newspaper journalism in the U.S. in the 1980s. Impact of economic considerations in the operations of newspapers; Effects of changes in newspaper readership; Implications on newspaper publishing.

Any day now the powers at newspapers The New York Times and Washington Post will have to decide whether they will print the full 35,000, word text of the document sent to them in late June by the terrorist, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is calling the Unabomber. In the letter that accompanied the text, he gave each paper three months to publish his screed, upon which he promises to desist from terrorism, but he warned that if they refused he would start building his next bomb. Naturally the decision has been somewhat complicated for the two papers, since they don't want to seem to give in to terrorist demands and don't particularly like giving such publicity to the Unabomber's decidedly anti-establishmentarian opinions.

This article focuses on political developments in the United States. Testifying before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, A. R. Graustein, president of the International Paper and Power Co., gave the names of the various newspapers in which his company had financial interests and the amount of money invested in each case. In his Washington letter on page 583 Paul Y. Anderson, an editor, gives the names of the newspapers involved and the character and amount of their securities held by the Paper Trust. Mr. Graustein made his statement without hesitation or evasion and at least deserves credit for frankness.

This article focuses on the article "Modern Morality," published in June 18, 1997 issue of the journal "The New York Times." June 18 was the day that the world's most important publication, took an advertisement in The New York Times, the paper that prints only the news that will fit its not-dissimilar mindset. The advertisement reprinted a the world's most important publication editorial titled "Modem Morality;' a subject should have thought alien to the core passions of either paper. But then for Americans morality has nothing at all to do with ethics or right action or who is stealing what money-and liberties-from whom.

Focuses on the history and operations of the newspaper 'The New York Post,' which was acquired by British publisher, Rupert Murdoch in December 1976. Financial performance and circulation of the newspaper; Marketing strategies used to improve circulation; Factors contributing to the success and failure of a newspaper; Profile on Murdoch and his views on journalism and the publishing industry.

It would surprise almost any New York newspaper owner or editor to be told that his newspaper was largely responsible for the unwholesome conditions which have recently been unearthed by the newsstand-racket investigation. And he would put in an indignant denial if it were suggested to him that newspapers of the city might be directly culpable if the grip of the racket were not broken. He would make the reply, with perfect truth, that the newspapers gave considerable space to the exposure of the racket, that some of them published editorial comment against it.

New York has a scant fifteen daily papers in the English language and several of them are editorially negligible. Paris has fifty dailies, in French and in most of them the editorials are more important than the news. At least twenty-five have real importance to a student of currents of opinion. The news service is rigorously condensed and signed editorials fill a large part of the paper. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson arrived on Saturday morning, December 14, 1920. That morning and the next almost all the papers made over their front pages in his honor. Of the five chief morning papers of the more radical type, four ran full six-column ribbon headlines both days, and the other ran four columns.

In this article, the author stresses on the need a newspaper that provides content relevant for working class. According to the author, there are several newspapers that are sought by so many classes of people. Every morning, in the U.S., 1.8 million people reach for "The Wall Street Journal," a newspaper that does much to nourish and strengthen the world of commerce. Along with "the New York Times" and "The Washington Post," it delineates the boundaries of acceptable political discourse while at the same time establishing an agenda for television and radio news. The author wonders, if stockbrokers, lawyers and bankers have a first-rate daily newspaper looking after their interests, there should also be one for auto workers, clerks, janitors and others.

This article focuses on prevailing political conditions the U.S. and around the world, as of May 18, 1899. The excitement and discussions in England over the Sunday-editions of the newspapers "Daily Mail," and the "Daily Telegraph," produce a curiously reminiscent effect upon those who have been connected for any time with newspapers of the U.S. British statesman Arthur James Balfour solemnly reminds the House of Commons that the work on a Sunday newspaper is actually done on Saturday, and that it is the Monday paper which is really wicked, and all the other dear old platitudes are hurled about with vigor and enthusiasm. Another development focuses on the subject of the taxation of securities and other paper evidences of ownership in or claims against corporations.

The author raises questions about why some the "New York Times" fired a stringer named Jay Blotcher because he'd been a member of the anti-AIDS advocacy group ACT UP nearly fourteen years ago. The "Times" is making its case not on Blotcher's membership in ACT UP, which really would be McCarthyism, but on his role as a "public spokesperson for an advocacy organization." But Blotcher and his supporters point out that many "Times" staffers have relationships that could "confuse" readers. Dr. Lawrence K. Altman has many such professional associations with various medical establishments, public and private. Bernard Weinraub covers Hollywood for the paper, while his wife is a head honcho at Sony Pictures. These cases do not involve the "appearance" of conflict-of-interest but its essence. [T]he belief of some that Blotcher was singled out not for being gay but for being in ACT UP and Queer Nation continues to divide the paper internally. Even if one accepts the paper's argument that its only crime is a kind of post-Blair hyper-fastidiousness about appearances at the expense of fairness to one of its stringers, the story cannot be allowed to die there.

In the first place a little research in Lorain, or some similar town, would do much to open all our eyes to the vital faults of the American press. This city with a population of some twenty-five thousand has one paper, the Lorain Journal, which comes out at four o'clock in the afternoon. It is owned by Sam Horvitz who is a paving contractor. Some years ago the Journal, then under different management, undertook to criticize Horvitz very sharply and so to end all that he bought the paper and continued it as a sideline. This sort of set-up becomes increasingly familiar in small American cities. The phrase "the small-town paper" conjures up in the minds of many a sentimental picture of the kindly boss who is Bill or Joe to his fellow workers and shares a cot in the city room with the office boy.

Twenty years ago, a calamity occurred in New York journalism. It was recorded at first hand in the February 27, 1931 issue of the newspaper World, the last edition of a great newspaper. The shock of the newspaper's passing was deeply felt by the 2,867 employees of the World, the Evening World and the Sunday World. It registered almost as intensely with working newspapermen throughout the nation and with all men and women of good will concerned about assaults of privilege and corruption and bigotry. The family of World readers believed that the paper fulfilled the Pulitzer ideal as nearly as any daily paper could.

This article presents information on the buyout of two daily newspapers of Pittsburgh, namely: Pittsburgh Dispatch and Pittsburgh Leader. It is informed that these old, well established dailies were purchased for the purpose of extinction by the five remaining dailies, on the avowed ground that there were too many newspapers in Pittsburgh for the successful conduct of all. In other words, there was not enough circulation and advertising to go around, and so these two papers were purchased for considerably more than one million dollars, and immediately suspended.

The article discusses July 11, 2008 when the stock price of seven major U.S. newspapers dropped to an all-time low and the reaction from bloggers. According to blogger Alan D. Mutter, this was the worst day for U.S. newspapers in U.S. history. Blogger Kevin Roderick, writer of the blogsite "LA Observed," stated that after staff cuts, newspapers will still produce a paper that subscribers are abandoning. Lee Abrams stated that most U.S. newspapers sound like National Public Radio Inc. (NPR).

Mark Willes, the former cereal executive and new chief of the Times Mirror Company, rode into town with a death warrant for New York's unique paper, New York Newsday, we almost yearned for the days of another Californian, Citizen Kane. Wiles killed his paper because even though it was headed past the break-even point it would never earn "an appropriate rate of return."

Speculation was made on the future of country newspapers when they were read on the other day of the death of William Benjamin Franklin Townsend, printer-editor of the newspaper Dahlonega Nugget. Dahlonega was once a gold-mining town, so the obituaries said, the importance of having a government mint was felt, and for some forty years Townsend got out the Nugget once a week, single-handed. According to a technique once not uncommon but now probably almost extinct, Townsend composed the contents of the paper as he stood before his printer's case, setting the type by hand as he went along. It is said that he never read proof and never looked at his paper after it came off his old-lash-hand press.

Every year there are printed in these States one quadrillion eight hundred trillion words. This unthinkable total measures the annual out- put of printing presses of the U.S. in the forms of newspapers, periodicals, books, pamphlets, reports, catalogues, circulars, handbills, leaflets, tracts, and advertising matter generally. The New York morning World contains between 150,000 and 200,000 words, including advertisements. But the World is bulkier than many other papers. If one estimates the average newspaper at 100,000 words, and allow a ten per cent overlay for Sunday editions, it follows that the daily newspaper circulation of forty million copies in the U.S. carries to the eager reader 1,600,000,000,000,000 words in a year's time.

The newspapers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in particular and of the country in general persistently misrepresented, the great steel strike of 1919 to the public as a Bolshevik outbreak of foreign workers, without basis in real grievances, opposed by all U.S. labor, denounced by all the clergy, attended by violent riots, a deadly menace to industry, peace, and established rights, a thing to be stamped out by any measures and at all cost. With failure of the press in the truth, there was a consequent failure of the public in right sense of justice and sympathy, there was also a collateral failure of the State in law and order.

This article focuses on the Roman Catholic Church press. More powerful than any other religious press, it includes, according to Chatles H. Ridder, president of the Catholic Press Association, 139 newspapers, with a circulation of 2,639,165, and 197 magazines, with a circulation of 4,604,141, besides more than 4,000 local publications. The American Catholic press is a vital part of the Church's political machinery and was greatly encouraged by Pope Pius XI, who saw it as a powerful agency of Catholic Action, that is, cooperation between laity and hierarchy for the attainment of Catholic aims.

The article focuses on the strike by newspaper deliverers union, which has closed every major newspaper in New York. A union of some 2,000 members ex-convicts prominent in its ranks, shakedowns and loan-sharking its lucrative sidelines-has demonstrated its power to hamstring the entire newspaper industry and to black out the nation's largest city from any comprehensive report of the news of the nation and the world. The strike has been disowned by all the other large and more reputable unions in the newspaper business. No strike of modern times burst more suddenly, more unexpectedly upon the public of New York.

Focuses on the plight of daily journalism in Jacksonville, Mississippi. Influence of Hederman family, which owns leading newspapers of the city, on mass media in the city; Propagation of racism and fundamentalism in newspapers owned by the family; Need for a strong editorial voice to improve the conditions of the city; Role of television in improving the condition of mass media in the city.

This article presents information on economic and social developments from various parts of the world. Massachusetts has now tried its High-License Law for a year, and instead of finding in it a solution of the "temperance question," is even deeper in the mire of intemperance. The condition of the newspaper press is exciting just as much attention in France as it excites in the U.S. The invasions of private life by French journals are not nearly so gross as that of Americans, nor are the assaults on public men so personal as those of some of United States' worst papers.

This article focuses on prevailing political conditions the U.S. and around the world, as of November 14, 1907. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has promised not only to recommend in his annual message to the U.S. Congress the abolition of the oppressive tariffs, but also to urge the Department of Justice to ascertain if the paper manufacturers are violating the anti-Trust laws. The American Newspaper Publishers' Association had appealed for the abolition of the tariff on press paper, wood pulp, and all the wood that goes into the manufacture of paper. Another development focuses on the results of elections in Russia, which showed an almost absolute Majority for the Reactionaries in the new Duma.

Accelerating the trend toward daily-newspaper monopolies, the elimination of these papers has extended the pall of orthodoxy that now muffles so much public discussion in the U.S. Last year Elzey Roberts, publisher of the late Star-Times, in accepting the Missouri University award for distinguished service to journalism, pointed out that "the trend toward monopoly situations is growing at such a rate that if it is not stopped it may change the whole complexion of American journalism." The trend is a product of stabilized counting-house journalism, which is in turn a function of the increasingly integrated American social system.

This article presents experiences of the author's life in Madison County, Florida. While the author is crossing a bridge in the region, he is thinking of his life's past events in the County. The author thought of the year, he taught in Madison county, and of the stile over which he climbed into the schoolyard, and of the soup that bubbled on the wood-burning stove in the schoolroom. At the office of the newspaper "Madison Enterprise-Recorder," the author found T.C. Merchant, Jr., and his father, publishers and editors of the sixteen-page weekly newspaper. Job printing and an office-supply business had pushed the editorial work into a dusty corner of the small shop. No one ever looked less like a crusader than the affable, heavy-set younger Merchant Father and son insisted they were not losing business because of the paper's stand.

Dalton, a town in the north-west corner of Georgia, is the "tufted-textile capital of the world." It is also the capital of the Church of God of the Union Assembly. The Church of God of the Union Assembly is unique and significant in that it is strongly pro-labor. Early last year the church started a monthly newspaper edited by Donald West, well known in the South as a poet. West christened the new paper "The Southerner" and dedicated it to the interests of the South's poor whites and Negroes. Dalton's chenille mills are all unorganized, paying the legal minimum of 75 cents an hour. By midsummer last year sentiment for organization among the area's 12,000 chenille workers was so widespread that the Textile Workers Union sent in a crew of organizers.

The article presents information on the newspaper "The Gazette and Daily," under the ownership of J.W. Gitt in York County, Pennsylvania. To many of its 35,000 or so readers in the county, it was simply the morning news paper. What was never really understood about The Gazette and Daily was its simple basic philosophy, which was, of course, Gitt's philosophy. Back around 1950, when she became assistant editor, she learned at least something of this philosophy in a brief conversation with the publisher about my new duties as daily editorial writer, among other things.

The article presents information on the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of the power trust. It continues to produce the most interesting news in Washington and the newspapers. Unfortunately, too, there are effective ways by which utility companies can exercise pressure. Financially, socially and otherwise, the president of the local gas, electric, telephone, or street-railway company usually is a man of influence, not infrequently he plays golf with the owner of the local paper. Newspapers themselves have been among the worst sufferers from the investigation.

The article discusses the ways in which the U.S. financial crisis has affected the U.S. newspaper industry, which include budget cuts and demands on labor unions. The author discusses how the New York Times Company has threatened to shut down the "Boston Globe" newspaper if it cannot produce millions of dollars in savings. The article states that U.S. Senator John Kerry is supporting a bill that would make papers such as the "Boston Globe" nonprofit enterprises.

This article takes a look at the struggles faced by mass media. Everywhere, mass media seems to be in crisis. NBC slashed its news-gathering operations and plans to shutter its MSNBC headquarters. New York Times Company profits were 39% lower than a year before. The "Boston Globe" and other smaller papers are suffering, and "Business Week" is shedding editorial staffers. Internet is the reason. Young people don't buy newspapers or watch the news, they turn to the Internet, Blogs that are sometimes more reliable, and Google.

The newspapers in the U.S. are more widely read than ever before in its history. A high percentage of the newspapers that survive steadily grow stronger in a financial way and usually keep increasing their circulation totals. The newspapers are growing in disfavor among the labor groups and certain classes of farmers. Newspaper owners usually employ writers who are capable of making their news readable. There are many enterprises and issues which newspaper owners feel compelled to favor for public or personal or political reasons, and many others of which they disapprove and desire their readers to disapprove.

This article focuses on the quality of report provided in newspapers regarding the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace which held in the U.S. in March 1949. With certain notable exceptions there was a general abdication of the responsibility to furnish an impartial report, most of the New York newspapers not only condemned the conference in their editorials, as they had a perfect right to do, but sought to discredit it in their news columns. Stories were slanted, headlines were loaded, incidents were invented, wild and absurd charges were played up, outright lies were printed as solemn fact.

The Canton, Ohio, Daily News is no more. On July 3 James M. Cox, former Governor of Ohio and owner of the Daily News, announced that its career of ninety-seven years had come to an end, that its real estate, plant, and other assets had been sold to the Canton Repository. "Canton," Cox announced," is not big enough to support two modernly conducted newspaper plants. There is not a sufficient net return on the capital invested nor the labor and management involved." So another historic daily passes, and inexorable economic forces which are steadily decreasing the number of dailies in the U.S. have scored another success.

The article focuses on the condition of journalism in the U.S. Journalism has probably grown much more fair than it was twenty or thirty years ago. Many papers which are called reactionary were scrupulous in their news treatment of the case of anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Newspapers grow bigger and more courteous, most of them reflect the opinion of no single man, but of a group. When many take counsel moderation may be expected and possibly wisdom, but not much fire. In order to pursue the pleasant calling of personal journalism it becomes almost necessary for a writer to be owner and contributor as well. The feeling grows that newspapers prosper by carefully refraining from annoying any considerable group of people.

The article focuses on the popularity of the "New York Times," newspaper in the United States. Few regular readers have the chutzpah to snub the paper entirely for a day, never doubting they will be punished in some mysterious way, yet few can get through it without psychic confusions about what to skip, whether to read at the expense of earning a living, vacuuming the rug, writing a letter to the phone company, etc. The author says that "The Times," is not the most incredible 30-percent buy in New York, but it is at a perilous subjective cost. There is a crisis at the New York Times. If a reader feels that only by brilliant eye-editing he can reach the last page without putting a sixty foot trench in the middle of the day, something is gravely out of whack.

This article focuses on Frank Hague, Mayor of Jersey city. The author says that the Mayor hurries from one conference of his lawyers and advisers to another, on both sides of the Hudson. Supposedly immune to newspaper attacks, he berates the New York correspondents for their stories about the doings in his domain. At the same time his large pack of trained seals on the Jersey City papers are urged on in their efforts to make it appear that between the innocent Jersey citizenry and the invading hordes from Moscow.