Regional and Local Journalism [index]

see also Newspaper Histories

New York State

Cressman, Dale.  “From Newspaper Row to Times Square: The Dispersal and Contested Identity of an Imagined Journalistic Community.”  Journalism History 34:4 (Winter 2009): 182-193.   NY City 

Follet, Frederick.  History of the Press of Western New York.  reprint edition.  Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1973.

Fox, Louis H.  "New York City Newspapers, 1820-1850: A Bibliography."  Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America.  21, parts 1-2.  Chicago, 1927.

Hamilton, William W.  The Country Printer in New York State, 1785-1830.  Port Washington, NY: I.J. Friedman, 1964.

Chicago

Andrews, Robert.  A Corner of Chicago.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

Bekken, Jon E.  "Working Class Newspapers, Community, and Consciousness in Chicago, 1880-1930." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, 1992.

Bekken, Jon E.  "The Chicago Newspaper Scene: An Ecological Perspective."  Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 74 (1997): 490-500.

Dewey Johns, Elizabeth.  “Chicago’s Papers and the News.”  PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1942.

Dornfield, A.A. Behind the Front Page: The Story of the City News Bureau of Chicago.  Chicago: Academy, 1983.

Erickson, John Edward.  "Newspapers and Social Values: Chicago Journalism, 1890-1910."  PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, 1973.

Fedler, Fred. “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow and Other Newspaper Tales About the Chicago Fire of 1871.” American Journalism 3 (1986): 24–38.

Green, N., S. Lacy, and Jean Folkerts.  "Chicago Journalists at the Turn of the Century: Bohemians All?"  Journalism Quarterly 66:4 (Winter 1989): 813-821.

Griffin, Dick, and Rob Warden, eds.  Done in a Day: 100 Years of Great Writing from the Chicago Daily News.  Chicago: Swallow Press, 1977.

Groeninger, David V.  “Chicago Imagined: The Role of Newspaper Columnists in Creating a City of the Mind, 1890–1930.”  PhD dissertation, Loyola University, 2005.

Lorenz, Larry. “The Whitechapel Club: Defining Chicago’s Journalists in the 19th Century.” American Journalism 15, no. 1 (1998): 83–102.

McPhaul, John J.  Deadlines and Moonshines: The Fabled World of Chicago Journalism.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

Mayer, Gordon.  “Party Rags?: Politics and the News Business in Chicago’s Party Press, 1831-71.”  Journalism History 32:3 (Fall 2006): 138-146.

Peterson, Paul V.  “The Chicago Daily Herald: Righting the Historical Record.”  Journalism Quarterly 46 (Winter 1970): 697-701.

Schmidt, Royal.  “The Chicago Daily News and Illinois Politics, 1876-1920.” Phd dissertation, University of Chicago, 1957.

Sims, Norman H.  “The Chicago Style of Journalism.”  PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, 1979.

Solomonson, Katherine.  The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

East/New England

Boyd Hinds, Lynn.  Broadcasting the Local News: The Early Years of Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

Hamilton, Milton W.  The Country Printer.  Port Washington: I.J. Friedman, 1964.

Miller, Alan Robert.  The History of Current Maine Newspapers.  Lisbon Falls, ME: Eastland Press, 1978.

Morse, Jarvis M.  Connecticut Newspapers in the Eighteenth Century.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935.

Steirer, William.  “Philadelphia Newspapers: Years of Revolution and Transition, 1764-1974.”  PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1972.

The South

Acheson, Sam.  News: 35,000 Days in Texas.  New York: Macmillan, 1938.

Allen, Charles L.  Country Journalism.  New York: Nelson, 1928.

Allsopp, Fred W.  History of the Arkansas Press for 100 Years and More.  Little Rock: Park-Harper Publishers, 1922.

Baker, Kathleen Ann.  "The Press that Cotton Built: Printing in Mobile, Alabama, 1850-1865."  PhD dissertation, University of Alabama, 2004.

Cappon, James L.  Virginia Newspapers: A Bibliography and Historical Introduction.  New York: Appleton-Century, 1936.

Carter, Hodding.  Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1970.

Casad, Dede W.  Texans Behind the News: Texas Journalists of the Twentieth Century.  Austin: Eakin Press, 2000.

Chute, Michael D.  "Clayton Thomas Rand and the Role of the Rural Press in the Development of Mississippi."  PhD dissertation, Southern Mississippi, 2001.

Clark, E. Culpepper.  "Francis Warrington Dawson: The New South Revisited." American Journalism 3:1 (1986): 5-23.  (Charleston News and Courier)

Clark, Thomas D.  The Southern Country Editor.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1948.

Cox, Patrick.  The First Texas News Barons.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Davies, David R., ed.  The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.*

Davis, Harold E. “‘A Brave and Beautiful City’: Henry Grady and the New South.” American Journalism 5 (1988): 131–44.

Dougan, Michael B.  Community Diaries: Arkansas Newspapering, 1819-2002.  August House Publishers, 2004.

Durham, Frank D.  "Anti-Communism, Race, and Structuration: Newspaper Coverage of the Labor and Desegregation Movements in the South, 1932-40 and 1953-61." Journalism and Communication Monographs 4:2 (Summer 2002).

Ellison, Rhoda C.  "Newspaper Publishing in Frontier Alabama."  Journalism Quarterly 23 (September 1946): 269-301.

Ellison, Rhoda C.  History and Bibliography of Alabama Newspapers of the Nineteenth Century.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1954.

Garrett Segura, Judith.  Belo: From Newspapers to New Media.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.  (Texas NP history)

Garrigus, Carl E.  "Profit and the Press: Georgia Newspapers from the Stamp Act to the Nullification Crisis."  PhD dissertation, Georgia State University, 1997.

Gelsanliter, David.  Fresh Ink: Behind the Scenes at a Major Metropolitan Newspaper.  Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995. (Dallas Morning News)

Griffith, Louis Turner, and John Erwin Talmadge.  Georgia Journalism 1763-1950.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1951.

Grimes, Millard B.  The Last Linotype: The Story of Georgia and its Newspapers Since World War II.  Macon: Mercer University Press, 1985.

Hollis, Daniel Webster, III.  An Alabama Newspaper Tradition: Grover C. Hall and the Hall Family.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1983.

Jean, Susan. “‘Warrented’ Lynchings: Narratives of Mob Violence in Southern White Newspapers, 1880–1940.” American Nineteenth Century History (London) 6 (September 2005): 351–72.

King, William L.  The Newspaper Press of Charleston, South Carolina.  Charleston: Lucas and Richardson, 1882.

Lauchlan, Angus.  “The Texas Liberal Press and the Image of White Texas Masculinity, 1938–63.”  Southwestern Historical Quarterly 110 (April 2007): 487–512.

McMullan, T. N.  Louisiana Newspapers, 1794-1961.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1965.

McMurtrie, Douglas C.  Early Printing in New Orleans, 1764-1810.  New Orleans: Searcy and Pfaff, 1929.

Margolies, Daniel S.  Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization.  Knoxville: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Merriwether, James B., ed.  South Carolina Journals and Journalists.  Spartanburg: Southern Studies Program, University of South Carolina, 1975.

Osthaus, Carl R. Partisans of the Southern Press: Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Skates, John Ray.  “From Enchantment to Disillusionment: A Southern Editor Views the New Deal.”  Southern Quarterly 5 (1967): 363-380.

Stafford, Thomas.  Afflicting the Comfortable: Journalism and Politics in West Virginia.  Morgantown: University of West Virginia Press, 2005.

Stem, Thad, Jr.  Tar Heel Press.  Charlotte: Heritage Printers, 1973.

Stroupe, Henry S.  The Religious Press in the South Atlantic States, 1802-1865.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1956.

Teel, Leonard Ray. “W.A. Scott and the Atlanta World.” American Journalism 6, no. 3 (1989): 158–78.

Tobin, Sidney.  “The Early New Deal in Baton Rouge as Viewed by the Daily Press.”  Louisiana History 10 (1969): 307-337.

Wheeler, Joseph Towne.  The Maryland Press, 1777-1790.  Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1938.

Williams, King E.  The Press of Alabama: A History of the Alabama Press Association.  Birmingham: Alabama Press Association, 1997.

Woody, Robert H.  The Republican Press of South Carolina.  Charlottesville: Historical Publishing Co., 1936.

Zimmer, Roxanne M.  "The Urban Daily Press: Baltimore, 1797-1816." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1982.

The "Frontier," the Midwest, and the West 

Abbott, Carl.  Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Allen, Charles L.  Country Journalism.  New York: Nelson, 1928.

Alter, J. Cecil.  Early Utah Journalism.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970.  reprint of 1936 edition.

Armstrong, Robert D.  “‘Impenetrable Obscurity’: The Comptroller, the Secretary, and Territorial Printing.”  Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 99 (September 2005): 411–25.

Armstrong, Robert D. “‘I Scornfully Rejected the Terms’: Wyoming Territory’s Public Printing, 1870–74.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101 (March 2007): 73–89.

Bennion, Sherlyn Cox. Equal to the Occasion: Women Editors of the Nineteenth Century West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1990.

Brier, Warren J., and Nathan Blumberg.  A Century of Montana Journalism.  Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1971.

Brinegar, David F.  "Arizona's First Chain Journalists."  Journal of Arizona History 24 (Spring 1983): 73-88.

Cloud, Barbara. The Business of Newspapers on the Western Frontier. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992.

Cloud, Barbara.  The Coming of the Frontier Press: How the West was Really Won.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008.

Collins, Ross F.  “Cattle Barons and Ink Slingers: How Cow Country Journalists Created a Great American Myth.”  American Journalism 24:3 (Summer 2007): 7-29.

Dagenais, Julie.  "Newspaper Language as an Active Agent in the Building of a Frontier Town." American Speech 42-2 (May 1967): 114-121.

Dary, David.  Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West.  New York: Knopf, 1998.

Doll, Louis W.  A History of Newspapers of Ann Arbor, 1829-1920.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1958.

Evans, James F.  “Clover Leaf: The Good Luck Chain, 1899-1973.”  Journalism Quarterly 46 (Autumn 1969): 482-491.  Midwest regional newspaper chain

Fry, John J.  The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920.  New York: Routledge, 2005.

Gilluly, Sam.  The Press Gang: A Century of Montana Newspapers, 1885-1985.  Helena: Montana Press Association, 1985.

Gutgesell, Stephen, ed.  Guide to Ohio Newspapers, 1793-1973.  Columbus, 1974.

Hage, George S.  Newspapers on the Minnesota Frontier, 1849-1860.  St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1967.

Halaas, David F.  Boomtown Newspapers: Journalism on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981.

Hamilton, James F.  "Newspapers, Migration, and Small Town Culture." Journalism History 14 (Spring 1987): 78-85.

Heuterman, Thomas H.  "Assessing the 'Press on Wheels:' Individualism in Frontier Journalism."  Journalism Quarterly 53 (Autumn 1976): 423-428.

Highton, Jake.  Nevada Newspaper Days: A History of Journalism in the Silver State.  Tracy, CA: Heritage West Books, 1990.

Homsher, Lola.  A Guide to Wyoming Newspapers, 1867-1967.  Cheyenne: Wyoming State Library, 1971.

Hooper, Osman C.  The History of Ohio Journalism, 1793-1933.  New York: Macmillan, 1924.

Huntzicker, William E.  "Historians and the American Frontier Press." American Journalism 5 (1988): 28-47.

Karolovitz, Robert F.  Newspapering in the Old West.  New York: Bonanza Books, 1965.

Karolovitz, Robert F.  With a Shirt Tail Full of Type: The Story of Newspaper in South Dakota.  Brookings: South Dakota Press Association, 1982.

Katz, William A.  "The Western Printer and His Publications, 1850-1890."  Journalism Quarterly 44 (Winter 1967): 708-714.

Keen, Elizabeth.  " Wyoming Frontier Newspapers."  Annals of Wyoming 33 (October 1961): 133-158.

Keen, Elizabeth.  "Wyoming Frontier Newspapers: The Newspapermen."  Annals of Wyoming 34 (April 1962): 61-84.

Kerstetter, Todd.  “Mobocratic Feeling”: Religious Outsiders, the Popular Press, and the American West.”  American Journalism 20:1 (Winter 2003): 57-72.

Kingenfelter, Richard E., and Karen Rix Gash.  The Newspapers of Nevada: A History and Bibliography, 1854-1979.  Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1984.

Lorenz, Alfred Lawrence.  "Out of Sorts and Out of Cash:'  Problems of Publishing in Wisconsin Territory, 1833-1848."  Journalism History 3 (Summer 1976): 34-39, 63.

Lynn, William H.  The Pioneer Editor in Missouri.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965.

Lyon, William H.  "The Significance of Newspapers on the American Frontier."  Journal of the West (1980): 3-13.

Lyon, William H.  Those Old Yellow Dog Days: Frontier Journalism in Arizona 1859-1912.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.

McLaws, Monte B.  Spokesman for the Kingdom: Early Mormon Journalism and Desert News, 1830-1898.  Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1977.

McMurtrie, Douglas C., and Albert H. Allen.  Early Printing in Colorado.  Denver: Hirschfield Press, 1935.

McNay, John T.  “Breaking the Copper Collars: Press Freedom, Professionalism, and the History of Montana Journalism.”  American Journalism 25:1 (winter 2008): 99-123.

McWilliams, James.  Mark Twain in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1874-1891.  Albany: Winston Publishing Co., 1997.

Mahoney, Timothy R.  "The Rise and Fall of the Booster Ethos in Dubuque, 1850-1861."  Annals of Iowa 61 (Fall 2002): 371-419.

Miles, George.  “The Press in the West: A Roundup of Recent Work.”  Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 99 (September 2005): 445–58.

Miner, Craig.  “Editor Clumer Buys a Press.” Kansas History 30 (Summer 2007): 92–111.

Moehring, Eugene P.  “Promoting the Varied Interests of the New and Rising Community: The Booster Press on Nevada’s Mining Frontier, 1859-1885.”  Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 42 (Summer 1999): 91-118.

Myers, John M.  Print in a Wild Land.  New York: Doubleday, 1967.  (The West)

Nichols, Roger L.  "Printers' Ink and Red Skins: Western Newspapermen and the Indians."  Kansas Quarterly 3 (Fall 1971): 82-88.

Norton, Wesley.  Religious Newspapers of the Old Northwest to 1861.  Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977.

Oehlerts, Donald E.  Guide to Wisconsin Newspapers: 1833-2000.  Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 2002.

Perkin, Robert L.  The First Hundred Years: An Informal History of Denver and the Rocky Mountain News.  New York: Doubleday, 1959.

Reed, V. Delbert.  "A Last Hurrah for the Frontier Press." American Journalism 6 (1989): 65-85.

Russell, F.A.  "The Newspaper and Periodical Publishing Industry in Illinois from 188-1915."  PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, 1916.

Russo, David J. "The Origins of Local News in the U.S. Country Press, 1840s-1870s." Journalism Monographs, no. 65 (Feb. 1980).

Scharlott, Bradford W.  "The Influence of the Telegraph on Wisconsin Newspaper Growth."  Journalism Quarterly 66 (Autumn 1989): 710-715.

Schmitt, Jo Ann.  Fighting Editors: The Story of Editors Who Faced Six-shooters with Pens and Won.  San Antonio: The Nagler Co., 1958.

Scott, Frank W.  Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879.  Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910.

Sibley, Marilyn M.  Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers Before the Civil War.  College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1983.

Sim, John C.  The Grass Roots Press: America's Community Press.  Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1969.

Simpson, Lee M. A., ed.  "Boosterism in the West."  Journal of the West 42 (Fall 2003).  Special Issue

Sloan, Wm. David. "The Frontier Press, 1800-1900: Personal Journalism or Paltry Business?" in Perspectives in Mass Communication History.  Hillsdale, NJ, 1991.

Stratton, Porter A.  The Territorial Press of New Mexico, 1834-1912.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969.

Swibold, Dennis.  “Anaconda Sheds Its Press: The Story behind the Company’s Decision to Sell Its Newspapers.”  Montana 56 (Summer 2006): 2–15.

Swibold, Dennis L.  Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics, and the Montana Press, 1889-1959.  Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2006.

Tórrez, Robert J., ed.  New Mexico in 1876-1877: A Newspaperman’s View; The Travels and Reports of William D. Dawson. Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande Books, 2007.

Tracy, James F.  "From Blueprint to Reality: The Dubuque Leader's Transformation under Cooperative Ownership."  American Journalism 19 (Fall 2002): 95-119.

Vergobbi, David J.  "Oh, That Proper Mix: Selective Boosterism on the North Idaho Mining Frontier Society." American Journalism 14:3-4 (1997): 475-94.

Zimmerman, Richard Z.  Plain Dealing: Ohio Politics and Journalism.  Kent: Kent State University Press, 2006.

Pacific Coast

Baldasty, Gerald J.  Vigilante Newspapers: A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Murder in the Northwest.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Brier, Warren J.  "A History of Newspapers in the Pacific Northwest, 1846-1896."  PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 1967.

Bruce, John R.  Gaudy Century: The Story of San Francisco's Hundred Years of Robust Journalism.  New York: Random House, 1943.

Carey, Arthur C.  "Effects of the Pony Express and the Transcontinental Telegraph Upon Selected California Newspapers." Journalism Quarterly 51 (Summer 1974): 320-323.

Carter, John Benton.  "Before the Telegraph: The News Service of the San Francisco Bulletin, 1855-1861."  Pacific Historical Review 11 (September 1942): 301-317.

Chandler, Robert J.  "The California News-Telegraph Monopoly 1860-1870."  Southern California Quarterly 58 (Winter 1976): 459-484.

Cronin Lamonica, Mary. "Fighting for the Farmers: The Pacific Northwest's Nonpartisan League Newspapers."  Journalism History 23:3 (Summer 1997): 126-136.

Ethington, Philip J.  The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994). (Chapter on newspaper press)

Gottlieb, Robert, and Irene Wolt.  Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers, and Their Influence on Southern California.  New York: Putnam, 1977.

Hall, Mark W.  “The San Francisco Chronicle: Its Fight for the 1879 Constitution.”  Journalism Quarterly 46 (Autumn 1969): 505-510.

Hall, Mark W.  "Journalism in California: The Pioneer Period, 1831-1849."  Journal of the West 10 (October 1971): 624-636.

Jolly, Michelle E.  "The Price of Vigilance: Gender, Politics, and the Press in Early San Francisco."  Pacific Historical Review 73 (November 2004): 541-579.

Kemble, Edward C.  A History of California Newspapers 1846-1858.  Los Gatos: Talisman Press, 1962.

Meany, Edmond S.  Newspapers of the Washington Territory.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1923.

Read, Simon.  War of Words: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder.  New York: Union Square Press, 2009.  (SF Chronicle)

Splitter, Henry W.  "Newspapers of Los Angeles: The First Fifty Years, 1851-1900."  Journal of the West 2 (October 1963): 435-458.

Stevens, Errol Wayne. “Two Radicals and Their Los Angeles: Harrison Gray Otis and Job Harriman.” California History 86: 3 (2009): 44–64.

Turnbull, George S.  A History of Oregon Newspapers.  Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1936.

Wagner, Rob L.  Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920-1962. Upland, CA: Dragonfly Press, 2000.

Young, John P.  Journalism in California.  San Francisco: Chronicle Publishing, 1915.