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Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2731" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/02/thanks-to-the-internet-archive-the-history-of-american-newspapers-is-more-searchable-than-ever/" target="_blank"><strong>Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever - Nieman Lab</strong></a></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>My two intellectual loves are history and journalism — alternately, history and its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Graham#%22First_rough_draft_of_history%22" target="_blank">first draft</a> — and I’m always happy to see the two overlap. That’s the case with word that the <a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a> has <a href="https://blog.archive.org/2021/01/20/more-than-100-years-of-editor-publisher-now-fully-accessible-online-on-the-internet-archive/" target="_blank">digitized nearly the entire back catalog</a> of <a href="https://www.editorandpublisher.com/" target="_blank">Editor & Publisher</a> — for decades the bible of the newspaper industry — and made it searchable to all.</p><p></p><p>I may be one of the youngest journalists to have experienced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_%26_Publisher" target="_blank">E&P</a> in its period of pre-Internet glory, when it was <em>the</em> best (and often only) place to find out about job openings at newspapers. I remember, as a cub reporter at The (Toledo) Blade in 1997, going in with a couple of coworkers for a shared subscription so we could see who was hiring. The Internet knocked E&P off its perch, offering free-or-cheap competition for both <a href="https://www.journalismjobs.com/" target="_blank">job listings</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/romenesko" target="_blank">media gossip</a> and giving it the fusty smell of yesterday’s media, though it’s shown some signs of life under new owner <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBlinder" target="_blank">Mike Blinder</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2731, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/02/thanks-to-the-internet-archive-the-history-of-american-newspapers-is-more-searchable-than-ever/'][B]Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever - Nieman Lab[/B][/URL] 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. My two intellectual loves are history and journalism — alternately, history and its [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Graham#%22First_rough_draft_of_history%22']first draft[/URL] — and I’m always happy to see the two overlap. That’s the case with word that the [URL='https://archive.org/']Internet Archive[/URL] has [URL='https://blog.archive.org/2021/01/20/more-than-100-years-of-editor-publisher-now-fully-accessible-online-on-the-internet-archive/']digitized nearly the entire back catalog[/URL] of [URL='https://www.editorandpublisher.com/']Editor & Publisher[/URL] — for decades the bible of the newspaper industry — and made it searchable to all. I may be one of the youngest journalists to have experienced [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_%26_Publisher']E&P[/URL] in its period of pre-Internet glory, when it was [I]the[/I] best (and often only) place to find out about job openings at newspapers. I remember, as a cub reporter at The (Toledo) Blade in 1997, going in with a couple of coworkers for a shared subscription so we could see who was hiring. The Internet knocked E&P off its perch, offering free-or-cheap competition for both [URL='https://www.journalismjobs.com/']job listings[/URL] and [URL='https://twitter.com/romenesko']media gossip[/URL] and giving it the fusty smell of yesterday’s media, though it’s shown some signs of life under new owner [URL='https://twitter.com/MikeBlinder']Mike Blinder[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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