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.