Newspapers History

Travel to the 1950’s with Tom Barker as he takes you on his Rollfast Bicycle for a ride back in time when the minimum wage was $1 an hour, a stamp cost 3 cents and a newspaper was a nickel. Tom takes you on a visit to the lost world of delivery of the mighty newspaper by an army of teens. Learn how hundreds of newspaper carriers got the latest news, fashion, sports, and advertising out to the masses. Understand the importance of the newspaper boy institution and the famous people it has influenced and were once among its ranks. Tom will tell you how he got his paper route, overcame ...

Explore the turbulent history of journalism, where battles over truth, censorship, and power built our modern media. Perfect for a thought-provoking morning commute, this immersive deep dive reveals how humanity's desperate need to share information transformed scattered ancient voices into a...

We first met Rachael (Rascal) Todd in the final book of The Dreamer’s Alliance series. She had just graduated from the University of Georgia, and joined the staff of The Courier-Reformer where she she sought to unravel the unsolved murder of a corrupt FBI agent, but ended up becoming a target. She has been solving mysteries ever since — cases that the police and others have given up on or not considered crimes. She is aided and supported by friends and family, including her boss, Bernie, her parents, her boyfriend Terry, and a curiously perceptive tuxedo cat, Bonkers. In The Museum ...

Bloomsbury presents The Gutenberg Parenthesis written and read by Jeff Jarvis. PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024 The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of...

"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." —John le Carré From the Pulitzer...

Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible? For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown...

Bloomsbury presents Hot Type, written and read by Jeff Jarvis. Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting...

Explore a gripping narrative history of investigative journalism as underdog reporters fight corrupt empires. Perfect for your morning commute, this thought-provoking journey traces the evolution of the press from modest movable type to massive digital disruption. Experience the intense...

A cozy paranormal mystery featuring a silent ghost, rearranged books, and one librarian who would prefer her nights uninterrupted. Something is moving the books in Emma Patterson’s bedroom. Very carefully. At two in the morning. Ellie Ward is called in to take a look. This, unfortunately, is becoming a pattern. A message is being left behind. Not spoken. Not written. Simply… arranged. Over and over, until someone pays attention. Ellie is paying attention. It’s a professional habit. She wishes, occasionally, that it wasn’t. What begins as a small inconvenience quickly turns into ...

“[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published ‘last seen’ advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage…a vital work of recovery.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Master, Slave...

A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet “An often enthralling chronicle [that] delivers the gossipy goods...

The digital version of this audiobook contains an introduction read by Carl Bernstein. The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of All the President’s Men—the chronicle of the investigative report about the Watergate break-in and resultant political scandal which led to President Richard...

Ever wonder why the Victorians were so obsessed with talking to the dead? It is strange to imagine an age of railways, telegraphs, photography, science, and public lectures also gathering in darkened parlors to listen for knocks from the spirit world. But the Victorian era was full of loss, ritual, curiosity, invention, and unanswered questions about what might survive beyond death. If you are fascinated by séances, mediums, ghost stories, spirit photography, mourning customs, and the search for supernatural proof, this book takes you inside one of history’s most atmospheric paranormal ...

Recounts the story of America’s last great newspaper war between the New York Daily News and the New York Post, as both papers’ long rivalry turned existential amid the rise of digital news. The story is told through the eyes of the reporters, or “runners”, and photographers who fought the war on the ground in cities across America.

Known to historians as "the First American," Benjamin Franklin is without a doubt the most accessible of America's founding fathers. His writings have inspired millions of Americans, and even now, more than 200 years after his death, his wit and humor still brighten lives all across the world. But what was this great man's view on faith? Was he really a Deist as so many historians have proposed? Was he a humanist like so many of his French friends? Is there any possibility that he could have been a Christian? In this unique volume, Bill Fortenberry has collected everything that Franklin ...

You've seen his work. You don't know his name. There is a photograph taken at Gettysburg in July 1863 that you may have encountered without realizing it. A bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat sits on a rock in the Devil's Den, sketchbook balanced on one knee. He looks completely at ease — the ease of someone accustomed to difficult places. His name is Alfred Waud. And almost nobody knows who he is.For four years, Waud followed the Army of the Potomac through every major battle of the Civil War — from First Bull Run to the Siege of Petersburg. His sketches, rushed by courier to New York ...

In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal from Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions.

A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied...

Volume one of The Story of the Tour de France concluded with Bernard Thévenet’s dramatic victory over Eddy Merckx in the 1975 Tour. Volume two opens with super-climber Lucien van Impe’s taking advantage of a course made for the riders with wings. His win was followed by the dominating presence of Bernard Hinault, who became the third rider to win the Tour five times.

The question is not whether monsters walk among us. They do. They have. For thousands of years. On the borders of humdrummia and every day reality, be it the forest’s edge or a moonlit graveyard draped in gossamer spiders’ webs, the macabre is all about. For our souls, our sanity, the vital question to answer is: Just WHERE are all these blankety-blank monsters? Santa Clarita is a riparian bedroom community, an hour’s drive north of Los Angeles. It’s been home to giant, man-eating grizzly bears, ghosts, serial killers, devil cults, more ghosts, Bigfoot, werewolf encounters, UFO ...