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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.

Focuses on the influence of newspapers on the society. Statement that the good old elective system by which a reader could choose a journal suited to his taste has curtailed; Claim that the survival of the fittest operates in journalism just as in other fields; View that to a considerable extent the general public has been extremely short-sighted in not being more active in protecting its own vital interest in a free and varied press; Significance of adequate newspaper coverage; Opinion that the reader should make sure he's right by obtaining first-hand factual information through representatives of his own choosing, and then by all means be should go ahead; Reflection of the rising tide of concentration in journalistic power.

Focuses on rural press lord John Perry's control of weekly newspapers in the United States. Supply of canned news and features through the Western Newspaper Union syndicate; Location of 35 branch offices of Western Newspaper Union; Attitude of the newspaper on foreign news; Bolstering of a free and independent country press; Revenues from newspaper advertising campaign; Connection between editorial.

Those today responsible for the conduct of the periodical The Nation look back to its fifty years of life with a kind of proud humility. The secure past is not theirs, yet they, as inheritors of a high tradition, must not discredit it. The periodical's influence in shaping the American press was out of all proportion to the mere number of its readers. It did not strive nor cry. The effects it wrought were subtle and insinuated, never clamorous. A virtue went out from it, which was unconsciously absorbed by many newspaper writers. They could scarcely hate said where they got their new impulse to exercise a judgment independent of party. All can raise the flowers now, for all have got the seed. Today the most powerful newspapers in the United States are those, which have the reputation of being always ready, on a question of real principle, to snap the green withes with which politicians would bind them.

This article discusses the lessons learned by the staff of "USA Today" from its online forum for readers. It describes the comments made by readers to articles and issues and the response to other readers to the comments. The comments in the online forum offended some readers. The staff decided to redesign the online arm of the national newspaper to include plenty of space for ordinary readers to "join the conversation." Newspapers and periodicals in the U.S. can learn from "USA Today."

The article presents the author's reaction to the "Year in Review" magazine's round-ups of events in 1998. The quality of journalism in the U.S. has decline. There was a time when every big cities in the country had at least two dailies and newspapers compete to capture a well-informed public. At present, the American public seems to have declined too in their interest for news and information. Because people are already saturated by news and information year-ender reports no longer get their attention.

The article focuses on the issue of newspaper transparency discussed at the 2006 Sunshine Week in the U.S. beginning on March 12. As newspapers prepare to mark the second annual Sunshine Week, they must build on the first year's successes in demonstrating with vivid examples the vital stake ordinary Americans have in ensuring their access to public documents and government meetings. This year's Sunshine Week will involve newspapers and broadcast focusing attention on government access issues.