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In his latest memoir, Carl Bernstein retraces the path of his early journalism career before he went on to make history at the Washington Post.
Editor's Note: Eugene L.
Newsboys in antebellum New York and elsewhere were embroiled in all the major conflicts of their day, becoming mixed metaphors for enterprise and annoyance.
Editor's Note: Vincent DiGirolamo is a professor of history at Baruch College in New York City.
Nearly 1800 newspapers have died since 2004, creating “news deserts” across the country. At many remaining journals, cuts have been so deep that they've become “ghost papers.” What are the implications for democracy?
The author and her team of researchers at the University of North Carolina have compiled a database of 9,000 newspapers across the U.S.
In September 1862, the New York Tribune ran a masterly account of the Battle of Antietam. Here were no vague claims of “Great and Glorious Victory” or “Great Slaughter of the Rebels.” Instead, the paper offered six columns of accurate, forceful prose, and got it to the readers less than 36 hours after the fight.
New York throbbed with the usual breakfast-hour bustle on September 19, 1862, apparently undisturbed by the recent Confederate invasion of Northern soil.
In June 1984, I got an odd call from an editor at The Wall Street Journal. I had submitted an article that marked the 100th anniversary of the first publication of Charles Dow’s stock-market average.
In Clare Briggs’, cartoons nobody got chased by 20 cops, nobody broke a plank over the boss’s head, and nobody’s eyes popped out on springs. People just acted the way people do, and as a result, the drawings still make us laugh.
Horace Greeley founded the “Trib”— and the union that eventually helped kill it. But in 125 years it knew many a shining hour.
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