The changing economic and demographic patterns of the United States have many measurements; few of them, however, are more comprehensive than the new circulation realities of the press. This volume tells the story of the twenty-six daily newspapers of New Jersey from the 1960s to the 1980s and in so doing tells the story of the rise of suburbia and the golden age of suburban journalism. In an intense effort to keep pace with the changing location of their readers-and most particularly with the upscale consumers-the shift to the suburbs was marked by changes in news coverage, advertising,...
The changing economic and demographic patterns of the United States have many measurements; few of them, however, are more comprehensive than the n...