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Saving community journalism : the path to profitability
\"Examining experiences at a wide variety of community papers--from a 7,000-circulation weekly in West Virginia to a 50,000-circulation daily in California and a 150,000-circulation Spanish-language weekly in the heart of Chicago--\"Saving Community Journalism\" is designed to help journalists and media-industry managers create and implement new strategies that will allow them to prosper in the twenty-first century. Abernathy's findings will interest everyone with a stake in the health and survival of local media\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Crain's Chicago Business (Chicago, Ill.) 1978-Current Online Resource
Weekly Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 5, 1978)- Mode of access: World Wide Web. Description based on web page information screen (viewed June 18, 2001). Latest issue consulted: Sept. 6, 2005 (viewed chicagobusiness website, Sept. 6, 2005).
Newspaper
Crain's Chicago Business (Chicago, Ill.) 1978-Current
Weekly Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 5, 1978)- Has annual special issue: Top business lists, -2001; Book of lists, 2002-2019; Book, 2020- Latest issue consulted: Vol. 33, no. 52 (2010).
Newspaper
Journal of Business (Spokane, Wa Wash.) 1986-Current
Twenty four issues a year, Vol. 1, no. 1 (Feb. 6, 1986)- \"Serving the business leadership of the Inland Empire.\" Latest issue consulted: Vol. 9, issue 1 (Feb. 1994).
Newspaper
Russia’s Outlooks on the Present and Future, 1910–1914: What the Press Tells Us
Russia’s cataclysmic dual 1917 revolutions, her 70-year Communist experience, and the stunning events of the last two decades, taken as a whole, lay the basis for a complete reevaluation of modern Russian history, a virtual intellectual caesura between everything that went before and now. Mikhail Bakhtin once wrote, “the ultimate word … about the world has yet to be spoken, … the world is open and free, everything is still … and will always be in the future.”1 At no point during the saga of twentieth-century Russian development, stasis, and stunning revolutionary turnabouts have scholars provided analysis that bears the test of time. No one has had the last word and new words are badly needed, now that so many traditional interpretations of Russian and Soviet experience have gone awry. A good case in point is the topic chosen for this essay. Historians often view pre-1917 Russian society as hopelessly fragmented, with various social elements at odds both with the government and with one another. In this interpretation, the ultimate failure of the February 1917 revolution to bring about liberal constitutionalism rested squarely upon society’s acute internal contradictions. A corollary was that only radical authoritarianism, such as imposed by the Bolsheviks, offered the prospect of maintaining the state intact in the face of powerful centrifugal forces allegedly unleashed by social strife.2
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Saving Community Journalism
America's community newspapers have entered an age of disruption. Towns and cities continue to need the journalism and advertising so essential to nurturing local identity and connection among citizens. But as the business of newspaper publishing collides with the digital revolution, and as technology redefines consumer habits and the very notion of community, how can newspapers survive and thrive? InSaving Community Journalism, veteran media executive Penelope Muse Abernathy draws on cutting-edge research and analysis to reveal pathways to transformation and long-term profitability. Offering practical guidance for editors and publishers, Abernathy shows how newspapers can build community online and identify new opportunities to generate revenue.Examining experiences at a wide variety of community papers--from a 7,000-circulation weekly in West Virginia to a 50,000-circulation daily in California and a 150,000-circulation Spanish-language weekly in the heart of Chicago--Saving Community Journalismis designed to help journalists and media-industry managers create and implement new strategies that will allow them to prosper in the twenty-first century. Abernathy's findings will interest everyone with a stake in the health and survival of local media.
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Dead Tree Media
A deep and timely account of how American newspapers were produced and distributed on paper.
Winner of the Best Book in Canadian Business History by the Canadian Business History Association
Popular assessments of printed newspapers have become so grim that some have taken to calling them \"dead tree media\" as a way of invoking the medium's imminent demise. There is a literal truth hidden in this dismissive expression: printed newspapers really are material goods made from trees. And, throughout the twentieth century, the overwhelming majority of trees cut down in the service of printing newspapers in the United States came from Canada.
In Dead Tree Media, Michael Stamm reveals the international history of the commodity chains connecting Canadian trees and US readers. Drawing on newly available corporate documents and research in archives across North America, Stamm offers a sophisticated rethinking of the material history of the printed newspaper. Tracing its industrial production from the forest to the newsstand, he provides an account of the obscure and often hidden labor involved in this manufacturing process by showing how it was driven by not only publishers and journalists but also lumberjacks, paper mill workers, policymakers, chemists, and urban and regional planners.
Stamm describes the 1911 shift in tariff policy that gave US publishers duty-free access to Canadian newsprint, providing a tremendous boost to Canadian paper manufacturers and a significant subsidy to American newspaper publishers. He also explains how Canada attracted massive American foreign investment in paper mills around the same time that US publishers were able to gain greater access to Canada's vast spruce forests. Focusing particularly on the Chicago Tribune, Stamm provides a new history of the rise and fall of both the mass circulation printed newspaper and the particular kind of corporation in the newspaper business that had shaped many aspects of the cultural, political, and even physical landscape of North America. For those seeking to understand the travails of the contemporary newspaper business, Dead Tree Media is essential reading.
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Krupp
The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one owned by a nonprofit foundation.
Krupp founded a small steel mill in 1811, which established the basis for one of the largest and most important companies in the world by the end of the century. Famously loyal to its highly paid workers, it rejected an exclusive focus on profit, but the company also played a central role in the armament of Nazi Germany and the firm's head was convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Yet after the war Krupp managed to rebuild itself and become a symbol of Germany once again--this time open, economically successful, and socially responsible.
Books on Krupp tend to either denounce it as a diabolical enterprise or celebrate its technical ingenuity. In contrast, James presents a balanced account, showing that the owners felt ambivalent about the company's military connection even while becoming more and more entangled in Germany's aggressive politics during the imperial era and the Third Reich.
By placing the story of Krupp and its owners in a wide context, James also provides new insights into the political, social, and economic history of modern Germany.
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Reputation and international cooperation
How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy? Michael Tomz sheds new light on this fundamental question through a study of international debt across three centuries. Tomz develops a reputational theory of cooperation between sovereign governments and foreign investors. He explains how governments acquire reputations in the eyes of investors, and argues that concerns about reputation sustain international lending and repayment.
Tomz's theory generates novel predictions about the dynamics of cooperation: how investors treat first-time borrowers, how access to credit evolves as debtors become more seasoned, and how countries ascend and descend the reputational ladder by acting contrary to investors' expectations. Tomz systematically tests his theory and the leading alternatives across three centuries of financial history. His remarkable data, gathered from archives in nine countries, cover all sovereign borrowers. He deftly combines statistical methods, case studies, and content analysis to scrutinize theories from as many angles as possible.
Tomz finds strong support for his reputational theory while challenging prevailing views about sovereign debt. His pathbreaking study shows that, across the centuries, reputations have guided lending and repayment in consistent ways. Moreover, Tomz uncovers surprisingly little evidence of punitive enforcement strategies. Creditors have not compelled borrowers to repay by threatening military retaliation, imposing trade sanctions, or colluding to deprive defaulters of future loans. He concludes by highlighting the implications of his reputational logic for areas beyond sovereign debt, further advancing our understanding of the puzzle of cooperation under anarchy.
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