The Newspaper

So common an object as a newspaper is seldom the subject of serious reflection. If any one of us should stop to consider what it is and why it is made, it is odds that he would...

Of the duties and functions of any newspaper the first in point of time and of importance is the collection and dissemination of news. The necessity of giving to the news, which...

Every man, who has had a newspaper in his hand, has remarked that from time to time on any occasion, which seems important, two or more accounts appear of the same event. These...

While the necessary characteristic of all periodical literature has been the conveyance of news of some sort, sometimes of a general and frequently only of a special character,...

The future will belong more and more exclusively to organization and machinery; and this _obiter dictum_ may be held to be as true of newspapers, as of anything else. It is nece...

The process of the production of a modern newspaper is one of the curiosities of industry. It is inconceivably complex. To begin with, for every single letter used in every word...

It is not possible to write about the Newspaper without making some compressed reference to the history of the press. But the history of the press can be adequately treated only...

One of the important facts about the home country that a Londoner can never get to understand is that there exist throughout Great Britain and Ireland, prosperous, successful an...

Any review of the continental press is even more difficult than in the case of our own kith and kin. There are added difficulties of race and language and of prejudices, which c...

In the narrow sense it might be said that journalism could hardly exist before journals, but that would be essentially inaccurate. Journalism is the art of writing for immediate...