The Mainichi Daily News is the online English edition of Japan’s highly respected and trusted Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, which has a history of 137 years and a daily circulation of 4 million copies for its morning edition, and 1.5 million for its evening edition. The Mainichi was the first of Japan’s major newspapers to produce an English edition, starting in 1922. The online English edition’s popular content includes Mainichi Shimbun editorials and opinion articles, news, features, haiku in English, and photo specials. The Mainichi has an extensive news-gathering network with more than 360 domestic outlets and 26 overseas bureaus, and has won numerous prestigious journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and a record 23 Japan Newspaper Publisher and Editors Association Awards — the Pulitzer Prize of Japan. The Kindle Edition of Mainichi contains most articles found in the web edition. For your convenience, issues are automatically delivered wirel (more…)

This book provides detailed information on regional interest magazines, especially those with a general audience which focus themselves on a particular city or region. Magazines were included regardless of their success and size. In addition to the comprehensive profiles, the writers have included a large body of interesting and little known facts about the magazines. Each entry includes two sections that provide data on information sources and publication history. Two appendices that list the profiled titles by date founded and geographic location complete this study.

About the Author

SAM G. RILEY is Coeditor of Index to City and Regional Magazines of the United States (Greenwood Press, 1989). GARY W. SELNOW is the Coeditor, with Sam G. Riley, of the Index to City and Regional Magazines of the United States.

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This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1860, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Southern Mines area of California’s Mother Lode Gold Belt.

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This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1875, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Northern Mines area of California’s Mother Lode Gold Belt. The Northern Mines was that area north of the Cosumnes River, which included Placerville on northward. It included the region containing the South, Middle and North forks of the American River, the Bear River, the South, Middle and North forks of the Yuba River, and the South, Middle and North forks of the Feather River, plus all the other branches and tributaries that ran into the named forks and rivers. This book contains as many newspaper articles that could be found relating to the gold rush days. In using the newspaper articles from the golden era as printed, with their dates, this reveals just when the “New Diggings” as they were called, were found; where they were being made; how rich some of the diggings were; what type of diggi (more…)

Biographical profile of James Gordon Bennett, Sr. one of America’s most colorful newspaper pioneers. In 1835, he launched the New York Herald, a penny paper of four four-column pages. He began on the road to riches with an investment of $500 and rented an office in a Wall St. cellar, yet in less than a year his daily circulation topped 15,000. Bennett employed many innovations we take for granted today and made the paper a landmark in the history of American journalism. He was politically nondenominational, criticizing all political parties with equal venom. He established new fields of news, including Wall St. finance and a society section. Bennett was also among the first to use European correspondents, telegraphy for the news, illustrations. and to report sensational murder trials. Bennett gained substantial recognition for his efforts to report the Civil War, sending more than 60 correspondents to the various fronts and spending half a million dollars to cover the (more…)