Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: what was a newspaper?
  • The making of industrial print culture
  • Forests, trade, and empire
  • The continental newsprint market and the perils of dependency
  • The local newspaper as international corporation
  • Robert McCormick and the politics of planning
  • Work and culture along the newsprint supply chain
  • The diversified newspaper corporation
  • The industrial newspaper and its legacies
  • The problem of paper in the age of electronic media
  • Conclusion: media infrastructures, old and new.