Preface; Introduction: A Pandemic Stress Test; 1. A Digital Dark Age for Newspapers; 2. The Staying Power of the Press; 3. Press Freedom and Proliferation; 4. The National Press: From Propaganda to Profit; 5. The Provincial Press: The Problem of Free; 6. What if Newspapers Aren't Dying?

Boken tecknar den samlade göteborgska tidningshistorien (1920 2020). Historien berättas mot bakgrund av den allmänna politiska, ekonomiska och branschspecifika utvecklingen. Tidningarnas ekonomi och marknadsförhållanden får stort utrymme, men också det journalistiska innehållet beskrivs....

This paper, "Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers" to which these Appendices apply is available at the following URL: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2191104" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2191104

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We study the competitive forces that shaped ideological diversity in the US press in the early twentieth century. We find that households preferred like-minded news and that newspapers used their political orientation to differentiate from competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand,...

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