How and When We Make the News: Local Newspaper Coverage of Archives in Two Wisconsin Cities
Abstract
What do local newspaper editors consider newsworthy about archives? Utilizing the powerful searching capabilities of electronic databases, the author retrieved full text articles that included any of the following terms: archive, archives, archivist, archivists, and archival. Articles were then analyzed by topic, size, placement, and date of publication. The single largest reason why archives received coverage was that they housed materials used to create a cultural product that was currently offered for public consumption.
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Jacobs, S. J., (1997) “How and When We Make the News: Local Newspaper Coverage of Archives in Two Wisconsin Cities”, Archival Issues 22(1), 45–60. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10461
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