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The purpose of this page, along with the companion Washington newspapers WikiProject page, is to support creating and improving Wikipedia articles about Washington newspapers. Here, we collect bibliographic information (for footnotes) and notes about source materials that can support composing these articles. These source materials generally include books, academic journal articles, and news articles about Washington journalism and newspapers.
Any newspaper with an entry in at least one of these resources is likely to be notable enough to merit a Wikipedia article.
Please feel free to edit this page to make it more useful! It's just a start, there are surely many other excellent source materials for information about Washington newspapers.
General search techniques edit
Try searching newspaper databases for the names of newspapers or for journalism-related topics. While some newspaper archives are on the open Internet, the most useful articles are often in paywalled or specialized databases. Several options are:
- The Internet Archive
- The Internet Archive stores digitized copies of many books and newspapers, available for free or to borrow with a free account. But to find these contents, you need to use the Internet Archive's own search function; external search engines like Google or Bing will not reveal most of its contents.
- newspapers.com
- a paid subscription. Subscriptions are available free for veteran Wikipedians through the WP:Wikipedia Library program.
- Your university library or local public library
- You probably have the ability to log into databases of newspaper archives through your library.
- The "Chronicling America" program of the U.S. Library of Congress
- This program partners with libraries and universities in each state to digitize historical newspapers. The Washington State Library is the local partner in Washington State. Search its collection here. (A list of all the state partners.)
Modern materials edit
- New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be
- A 2003 book with histories and basic information on newspapers in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Note, you can check out a digital copy by creating a free account at archive.org. Titles of papers covered in this book listed below, see: #Detailed notes about specific sources.
- Strait Press: A History of News Media on the North Olympic Peninsula
- 2018 book covering Clallam and Jefferson counties, including Port Angeles and Port Townsend
- Newspaper Profiles from Washington Digital Newspapers project (local partner of Chronicling America / Library of Congress project)
- Washington Newspaper Publishers Association
- Its monthly newsletter, The Washington Newspaper (TWN), covers community papers in Washington. Note, especially, its annual "Better Newspaper Contest" awards. Some earlier editions available on Google Books, e.g.: [1]
- Links to Washington newspaper websites from the Washington Secretary of State
- Links to databases of newspapers from the Washington Secretary of State
Online databases edit
These sites do little to establish notability and may not meet the threshold of a reliable source, but they may be useful in conjunction with other reference materials.
- Washington State Library page on newspapers. (This one may be more useful than the rest; it links in turn to a number of online resource, mostly for finding the contents of newspapers, rather than information about the newspapers; but it's worth further investigation.)
- OfficialUSA page on WA newspapers
- ABYZ page on WA newspapers
- Washington public notices
- mondotimes.com
Historical materials edit
- History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, chapter 9 (1890) General history covers earliest newspapers.
- "Pioneer Papers of Puget Sound" (1903) Has basic info about some of the original Washington papers.
- "Newspapers of Washington Territory" (1922-1948). A listing by city name, with several installments in the Washington Historical Quarterly. See: wikisource:en:Newspapers of Washington Territory
Detailed notes about specific sources edit
New Editions (2013) edit
Pioneer Papers of Puget Sound (1903 article) edit
Historic papers mentioned in this historical journal article
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Newspapers of Washington Territory (1922-1948) edit
List of papers mentioned in these articles
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A listing by city, compiled by Edmond S. Meany for the Washington Historical Quarterly beginning in 1922. Additions were published serially, by Meany and later by J. Orin Oliphant. They were organized by city name:
Oliphant updates:
Initial Aberdeen to Index article:
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- ^ Meany, Edmond S. (January 1923). "Newspapers of Washington Territory". The Washington Historical Quarterly. Vol. 14, no. 1.