"Winds of Change for Newspapers"
Magazine article
By: U.S. News & World Report
Date: April 25, 1966
Source: "Winds of Change for Newspapers." U.S. News & World Report, April 25, 1966, 67–69.
About the Publication: U.S. News & World Report was and still is one of the three major weekly news magazines. It regularly reports on developments in other news media such as television and newspapers.
Introduction
Big-city newspapers were in decline in the 1960s. There were many causes for this, including economic expansion, population movement, the spread of higher education, and a revival in the American cinema. Suburbanization and the resultant dependence on personal cars to travel to work meant that fewer commuters were reading a newspaper on the bus or subway. Further, by the 1960s virtually every American home contained a television set, which provided news easily,...
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