History buff David Gelatt says he “giggled a little bit” when he learned that the Lancaster newspapers, going back more than two centuries, had been digitized and could be searched and read by the ...

I’ve always liked archives: decades-old yearbooks, yellowed encyclopedias, and piles of dusty magazines full of dated fashion and ads for bygone businesses. My pandemic habit of trawling the depths of ...

With the sale of the New York Daily News to the media company Tronc (formerly the Tribune Company), New York’s “hometown newspaper’’ has dropped out of America’s largest independent newspapers ranked ...

Most of the world’s newspapers practice a “splashy, superficial, thoughtless and tenuous” journalism that offers readers only a “heterogeneous hodgepodge of triviality.” After making that harsh ...

U.S. newspapers are prone to boast, when they can, about their great antiquity. Last month, in a story noting the 200th anniversary of the Hartford, Conn., Courant (pronounced current), TIME accepted ...