NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ryan Moser, a writer formerly incarcerated in Florida, and Kate McQueen of the Prison Journalism Project, about the rise of newspapers published in prisons. Since the ...
It started a few days ago when Tony Rose uncovered a startling item in an old Editor and Publisher. A 1925 obituary for ...
The complex and transformative role that newspapers have played in Louisiana is the focus of the 2024 History Symposium. A vibrant slate of speakers will explore how the medium has evolved over the ...
Logan County has a long history of newspapering, dating back to the 1880s. Journal-Advocate reporter and writer Jeff Rice spoke about the many different newspapers that have been part of the county ...
In the late 19th century, the South Plains of Texas was a sparsely settled frontier with no newspapers. That changed in 1886, when the Crosby County News began in the small Quaker settlement of ...
Leona Lavong was looking for part-time work, preferably on her university’s campus, when she found something more: a window into Black American life across the decades. Lavong had “stumbled” into a ...
They gave their newspapers names like the Snarkyville Gazette, Bull Sheet, Scars and Gripes, and the Sunday Mud and Mildew. Their stories clackety-clacked out of battle-scarred typewriters in war ...
FARGO - Lined with dusty filing cabinets full of yellowed newspaper clippings and old books, the little room on the west side of the Forum building has the look of an office forgotten by time. To ...
Sometimes it stuns me to think that I've already been working at the Midland Daily News for 25 years. But then I remember that I'm a relative blip on the screen in comparison to the overall history of ...
Since the 1800s, people inside of U.S. prisons have printed their own newspapers and run their own newsrooms. These efforts are collectively known as the prison press. KEVIN SAWYER: The newspaper ...