Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today’s problems are new.
By Joshua Benton@jbenton
Feb. 2, 2021, 1:53 p.m.
Feb. 2, 2021, 1:53 p.m.
My two intellectual loves are history and journalism — alternately, history and its first draft — and I’m always happy to see the two overlap. That’s the case with word that the Internet Archive has digitized nearly the entire back catalog of Editor & Publisher — for decades the bible of the newspaper industry — and made it searchable to all.