Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America PDF
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Dead Tree Media 349-74542_Stamm_ch00_3P.indd 1 7/26/18 11:38 AM Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics Richard R. John, Series Editor 349-74542_Stamm_ch00_3P.indd 2 7/26/18 11:38 AM DEAD TREE MEDIA Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth- Century North Amer i ca MICHAEL STAMM Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore 349-74542_Stamm_ch00_3P.indd 3 7/26/18 11:38 AM © 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2018 Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Mary land 21218 - 4363 www . press . jhu . edu Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Stamm, Michael, author. Title: Dead tree media : manufacturing the newspaper in twentieth- century North Amer i ca / Michael Stamm. Description: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017051884 | ISBN 9781421426051 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781421426068 (electronic) | ISBN 1421426056 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 1421426064 (electronic) Subjects: LCSH: Newsprint industry— North Amer i ca— History. | Newspaper publishing— North Amer i ca— History. Classification: LCC HD9839.N43 N778 2018 | DDC 338.4/7676286— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2017051884 A cata log rec ord for this book is available from the British Library. Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of this book. For more information, please contact Special Sales at 410- 516- 6936 or specialsales@press . jhu . edu. Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post- consumer waste, whenever pos si ble. 349-74542_Stamm_ch00_3P.indd 4 7/26/18 11:38 AM For Ani 349-74542_Stamm_ch00_3P.indd 5 7/26/18 11:38 AM This page intentionally left blank coNteNts Acknowl edgments ix / Note to the Reader xv Introduction: What Was a Newspaper? 1 Part I the North amerIcaN NewsPaPer 1 The Making of Industrial Print Culture 31 2 Forests, Trade, and Empire 54 3 The Continental Newsprint Market and the Perils of De pen den cy 83 Part II exteNdINg chIcagolaNd 4 The Local Newspaper as International Corporation 107 5 Robert McCormick and the Politics of Planning 140 6 Work and Culture along the Newsprint Supply Chain 176 Part III the NewsPaPer beyoNd the PrINted Page 7 The Diversified Newspaper Corporation 201 8 The Industrial Newspaper and Its Legacies 241 9 The Prob lem of Paper in the Age of Electronic Media 266 Conclusion: Media Infrastructures, Old and New 290 Notes 295 / Index 343 349-74542_Stamm_ch00_3P.indd 7 7/26/18 11:38 AM This page intentionally left blank ackNowl edgmeNts This book started in 2010 as a simple inquiry into what I thought was a l ittle loose end that I had come across while finishing my first book: How was it that the Chicago Tribune came to build a com pany town in Quebec? This turned out to be a much more complicated question than I initially thought, and tracking down the answers took me in all sorts of unimagined directions over the past few years and changed how I think about North American history. In pursuing this work, I have accumulated many debts and owe many favors to many people. These acknowl edgments do not come close to expressing my gratitude t oward or re- ciprocating the generosity of all these colleagues and friends, but I start here by offering my heartfelt thanks to every one who offered the support, guidance, as- sistance, and friendship that made writing this book pos si ble. This book simply would not have happened without the work of M. Stephen Salmon, a now- retired archivist at Library and Archives Canada. Along with his colleague Jennifer Mueller, Stephen acquired and pro cessed the rec ords of the Quebec and Ontario Paper Com pany, and this became the most impor tant archival material that I would utilize in writing this book. It is an extraordinary collection of corporate documents relating to a wide range of aspects of North American business and media history. I was one of the first researchers to use this collection, which was not open to the public when I started working with it in 2011 and which remains in this state as of this writing. Stephen was instrumen- tal in helping me gain access to the collection and in orienting me to what was in it, and he was also great com pany on my research trips to Ottawa. Years later, he generously read and commented on the entire draft manuscript and offered a num- ber of suggestions that have improved this final work. My editor for the Johns Hopkins University Press series, Richard R. John, has been an enthusiastic supporter of this proj ect back to its earliest stages and of my work in general for even longer than that. Over the past few years, he has read what by now seems like countless drafts of this manuscript, and his close read- ings, criticisms, and constant encouragement have helped immeasurably in mak- ing this a better book. I could not have asked for a better critic and reader. Thanks also to Erik Rau. The referees that JHUP solicited offered many helpful sugges- tions and criticisms, and I thank them for their feedback on and support of the manuscript. At JHUP, Elizabeth Demers, William Krause, Matt McAdam, Juli- ana McCarthy, Kim Johnson, Morgan Shahan, Lauren Straley, and Gene Taft have been exceedingly helpful in getting the book into print. Jeremy Horse field did a fantastic job copyediting the text. 349-74542_Stamm_ch00_3P.indd 9 7/26/18 11:38 AM
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