Links about the history of news transformation
Archived Stories:
On The Internet, The Past Isn’t That Old
Tristan Louis, Business Insider, May 15, 2011
Infographic: A Look At LinkedIn On Its 8th Birthday
Amanda Natividad, paidContent, May 5, 2011
Explore Twitter’s Evolution: 2006 to Present
Brian Anthony Hernandez, Mashable, May 5, 2011
Newspaper front pages capture elation, relief that Osama bin Laden was killed
Julie Moos, Poynter, May 2, 2011
2011 Pulitzers reflect journalism’s evolution
Philip Meyer, USA Today, Apr. 27, 2011
Nostalgia: 11 Retro News Website Homepages
Ethan Klapper, Mashable, Apr. 26, 2011
Another online milestone for the Pulitzer Prize
Justin Ellis, Nieman Journalism Lab, Apr. 18, 2011
Web Design Evolution: Two Decades of Innovation
Charlie White, Mashable, Apr. 17, 2011
On Twitter’s 5th birthday, users and media consider its impact
Damon Kiesow, Poynter, Mar. 21, 2011
The year in media, as seen through the top 10 Romenesko posts of 2010
Julie Moos, Romenesko, Dec. 10, 2010
In 1980, They Wondered: Will TV And Computers Join To Kill Newspapers?
Business Insider, The Wire, Oct. 26, 2010
The Top 7 Technologies That Changed Modern Journalism Forever
10,000 Words, Sep. 28, 2010
Internet Adoption Over Time
Pew Internet & American Life Project, Sep. 17, 2010
A Brief History of 9 Popular Blogging Platforms
Stephanie Marcus, Mashable, Aug. 6, 2010
A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Blogging
Josh Catone, Mashable, Aug. 3, 2010
A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Mobile
Christina Warren, Mashable, Jul. 27, 2010
A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media
Adam Ostrow, Mashable, Jul. 20, 2010
200 Moments that Transformed Journalism
Bill Mitchell, Poynter, May 17, 2010
(Related: 200 Moments Interactive Timeline)
The Short and Illustrious History of Twitter #Hashtags
Liz Gannes, GigaOM, Apr. 30, 2010
Library of Congress Will Save Tweets
Steve Lohr, New York Times, Apr. 14, 2010
(Related stories from Twitter, Library of Congress, ReadWriteWeb, The American Prospect and Search Engine Land)
AOL’s Downfall Provides Lessons For Twitter, Apple
Andrew Weissman, Business Insider, Apr. 14, 2010
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Thomas Pettitt on parallels
between the pre-print era and our own Internet age
Megan Garber, Nieman Journalism Lab, Apr. 7, 2010
For the media biz, iPad 2010 = CDROM 1994
Scott Rosenberg, Wordyard, Mar. 26, 2010
Baby Boomers in the Digital Age
Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Mar. 19, 2010
News Has Never Been a Commercially Viable Product
Robert G. Picard, The Media Business, Mar. 17, 2010
The Google Decade: Search In Review, 2000 To 2009
Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land, Feb. 1, 2010
The Year & Decade in Review: Top Media Stories from 2000-2009
Julie Moos, Poynter, Dec. 31, 2009
Predictions About Newspapers in 2084, from E&P 25 Years Ago
Rick Edmonds, The Biz Blog, Dec. 11, 2009
Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years
David Sasaki, MediaShift Idea Lab, Nov. 14, 2009
A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades
The AWL, Oct. 26, 2009
When Newspapers Mattered
Life Magazine, 2009
Future Imperfect
Alex Beam, Boston Globe, Aug. 25, 2009
The New-Media Crisis of 1949
Network radio’s fate has some lessons for today
Terry Teachout, WSJ Sightings, Aug. 22, 2009
The Newspaper-Web War:
Ever get the feeling this battle was fought before?
Jack Shafer, Slate, Aug. 3, 2009
How Early Newspaper-to-Web Technology Crippled News Industry’s Thinking
Amy Gahran, E-Media Tidbits, Jul. 23, 2009
What Newspapers Can Learn from the Past
Gina Chen, Save the Media, Jul. 14, 2009
Congress and Newspapers, 1943 Edition
Tom Bowers, News & Observer, Jul. 10, 2009
This American Life Recalls The Days Of Newspaper Classifieds
Chris O’Brien, The Next Newsroom Project, Jun. 12, 2009
(Archived This American Life episode, Oct. 11, 2002)
Word for Word: A. J. Liebling. Surviving Without Newspapers
Noam Cohen, New York Times, Jun. 6, 2009
The End of Journalism?
Robert G. Picard, The Media Business, Jun. 4, 2009
Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history (Video)
Clay Shirky, TED.com, May 2009
A Brief History of AP’s Battles with News Aggregators
Jeffrey D. Neuburger, MediaShift, May 26, 2009
Government’s Long History of Supporting Journalism
Dan Gillmor, Mediactive, May 13, 2009
Life After Newspapers
Learning from the 1962-63 New York newspaper strike
Jack Shafer, Slate, May 11, 2009
Timeline: Turmoil in the Newspaper Industry
Boston Globe, Apr. 2009
(See also: Negotiating the Globe’s Future)
The Great Newspaper Crackup of 1918
Jack Shafer, Slate, Apr. 13, 2009
What went wrong? Secure in their profits,
the Globe and other newspapers underestimated the impact of the Web
Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe, Apr. 12, 2009
First Electronic Daily Newspaper Published in 1939?
Will Sullivan, Poynter, Apr. 9, 2009
A Costly Mistake?
Paul Farhi, AJR, April/May 2009
Landmark moments in citizen journalism
Mark S. Luckie, 10,000 Words, Mar. 30, 2009
Arthur Sulzberger & Walter Isaacson on making money online — in 1995
Zachary M. Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar. 20, 2009
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Clay Shirky, Mar. 13, 2009
Why didn’t newspapers try charging for online content? Well, they did ….
Steve Yelvington, Yelvington.com, Mar. 9, 2009
Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper”
Martin Langeveld, Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar. 6, 2009
The News Business Is Changing. Again.
Craig Silverman, CJR, Feb. 20, 2009
How Newspapers Once Survived Near Death
Richard J. Tofel, The Daily Beast, Jan. 30, 2009
Back Issues: The Day the Newspaper Died
Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, Jan. 26, 2009
Extra! Extra! (An Addendum on Page 1 Ads)
David W. Dunlap, The New York Times, Jan. 7, 2009
How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web but Failed
Jack Shafer, Slate, Jan. 6, 2009
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Related: Poynter’s New Media Timeline (1969-2010)
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