Newspapers A Reference Guide

Subjects:

• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)

Reviews:

• This work is an extensive bibliographic essay on the history, practice, and impact of newspapers on American society. Organized into nine chapters on such topics as `Histories of Newspapers,' The Work of Newspaper People,' `Producing Newspapers,' `Newspapers and Society,' `Newspapers and the Law,' and `Newspapers and Technology,' more than 1,700 books and journals are analyzed for their value in newspaper research. Especially useful to librarians is the chapter that describes reference sources, including online services. All of the materials selected are in English, cover newspapers published in the U.S., and are available in most university libraries. Each chapter consists of a comparative review essay followed by a bibliography of the sources mentioned. Two appendixes provide a selected chronology of newspapers and a guide to a major newspaper research collections. The book concludes with a very detailed author, title, and subject index.... Newspapers provides a historical context for the books discussed in its readable essays and will be invaluable for anyone researching the history or role of newspapers in American life.
  —Booklist
• Richard A. Schwarzlose in Newspapers: A Reference Guide presents a `core' of the literature (books and monographs) `that either competently summarize major newspaper topics or spotlight significant or interesting aspect of newspapering.' Both substance and availability were criteria for selection. All titles are in English and about American newspapers. Nine bibliographic essays cover topics in the history of the American newspaper from its beginning to the 1980s. The first three chapters are history-oriented in that they deal with the histories of newspapers and the people that worked for them before the twentieth century and in the twentieth century, respectively. The fourth chapter takes as its subject anthologies of newspaper writing, drawing, and paper design. Books about what goes into the production of a newspaper are the subject of Chapter 5, followed by chapters on `Newspapers and Society.' `Newspapers and the Law,' and `Newspapers and Technology.' The final chapter discusses references and periodicals about newspapers--bibliographies, newspaper checklists and indexes, annuals and directories, and periodicals. Two appendices: Selected Chronology of Newspapers and Major Research Collections. The essays are cogently written and highly informative. Each concludes with a listing of sources providing full bibligraphical information. Index. A fine guide on the subject, recommended for large libraries.
  —Reference Book Review

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Histories of Newspapers
• Newspaper People at Work: Before the Twentieth Century
• Newspaper People at Work: During the Twentieth Century
• The Work of Newspaper People
• Producing Newspapers
• Newspapers and Society
• Newspapers and the Law
• Newspapers and Technology
• References and Periodicals about Newspapers
• Appendix 1: Selected Chronology of Newspapers
• Appendix 2: Major Research Collections
• Index