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Columbia Journalism Review
Power Reporting: Journalism shoptalk: History

American Native Press Archives
Collecting and archiving American Indian and Alaska Native newspapers and periodicals. Features a bibliography of native writers.

American Newspaper Repository
When microfilm won't do, these folks have the real newspapers. "We founded the American Newspaper Repository in 1999 in order to save a unique collection of original newspapers that would otherwise have been destroyed or dispersed. The Repository exists in order to preserve and make available to the scholarly public, and to future generations, these magnificent landmarks of American publishing."

Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
Full time editorial cartoonists, student cartoonists and others with an interest. Portfolios, awards, and history, especially of Thomas Nast.

Douglass
"Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University."

Ernie Pyle tribute
Columns and links from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

Fun Facts About Newspapers
What's a bulldog? A flag? A masthead? Check this collection of facts from the Newspaper Association of America.

Glossary of Newspaper Terms
From the Newspaper Association of America.

How to Make a Printer's Hat
Every journalist needs a pressman's hat.

NAA Information Research Center
Statistics, books, videos and other info on newspapers. From the Newspaper Association of America.

NameBase
A quirky index of names cross-indexed. From book indexes primarily but also organization membership lists. A lot of foreign policy, spy, conspiracy, media, etc. Searching is restricted (not too many searches, not at peak times) unless you pay up. Started in the 1960s by New Left activist Daniel Brandt. Now done by his Public Information Research.

Newseum
The interactive museum of news. From the Freedom Forum.

Paul Sann, Journalism, Letters, Writings
A son's tribute to his journalist father, Paul Sann, former executive editor of The New York Post. Includes text of two of Paul Sann's books, plus memos, letters, headlines, and Middle East reporting from the '50s.

September 11 online archive
Collection of 250 news sites on September 11, 2001. Searchable by publication time, country.

Surveys of Journalism and Mass Communication
Surveys of enrollment, salaries and labor markets in journalism and PR. From the University of Georgia.

The Development of Computer-Assisted Reporting
A paper by Meli Cox, presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2000. Traces the history from the 1950s to the current attempts to integrate CAR with daily reporting.

Yahoo journalism history
Yahoo search for "journalism and history."


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