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The Press and the Suburbs The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey

165 Pages

by Routledge

166 Pages

by Routledge

165 Pages

by Routledge

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The changing economic and demographic patterns of the United States have many measurements; few of them, however, are more comprehensive than the new circulation realities of the press. This volume tells the story of the twenty-six daily newspapers of New Jersey from the 1960s to the 1980s and in so doing tells the story of the rise of suburbia and the golden age of suburban journalism. In an... Read more

PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION

FOREWORD
by George Sternlieb

INTRODUCTION
The Suburbs and the Press. Suburban Journalism.

1 EVALUATING A STATE'S DAILY NEWSPAPERS
The Anatomy of Newspapers in America. The New Jersey Newspaper
Study. Content Analysis: Method. Content Analysis: Findings. Evaluating
New Jersey's Daily's Newspapers.

2 THE BIG FISH
The Ghost of the Newark News. The Star-Ledger: To the Survivor Go the
Spoils. The Slick, Rich Record of Hackensack. The Right Paper in the
Right Place at the Right Time: The Asbury Park Press. The Awakening
of the Courier-Post.

3 STAYING ALIVE IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
Morris County's Daily Record. The Daily Advance Struggles to Survive.
The New Jersey Herald in Rural Sussex. The Herald-News: "You Might
Even Ask Why We Exist." Allbritton's Thin Sisters: The Paterson News
and the Hudson Dispatch. Jersey City's Journal. The Daily Journal of
Elizabeth.

4 SUBURBAN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
The Home News: On the Banks of the Raritan. "Where the Hell Is Bridgewater,
New Jersey?" The Very Local News Tribune of Woodbridge.

5 THE GREAT TRENTON NEWSPAPER WAR . . . AND PEACEFUL LEVITTOWN
The Great Trenton Newspaper War. The Burlington County Times: Growing
Up in Levittown.

6 THE JERSEY SHORE . . . AND POINTS SOUTH
Living in the Shadow of the Asbury Park Press: The Daily Register and the
Ocean County Times-Observer. The Atlantic City Press Bets on Casinos.
Cumberland County's Three Dailies. The Gloucester County Times Goes
Local. Today's Sunbeam Serves Salem.

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