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If I The Sunday Paper i is, as the authors write, "an argument for shifting the topography of journalism and newspaper history and placing it more squarely within media history" (p. 4), then we need to know that "topography." Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele explain how this happened in I The Sunday Paper: A Media History i by charting the ways in which the Sunday newspaper continually reinvented itself with new inserts and sections and the adoption of technologies that attracted and engaged readers. For most of the twentieth century, the distinctive "thud" of the Sunday newspaper hitting the doorstep (if the paperboy had accurate aim) was the sound of journalism. [Extracted from the article] |