Chicago Tribune (now 2004)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:47:15PM -0400, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> >    Ah, they've discovered that the 19th century Chicago Tribune is
> > nearly illegible.  No surprise there!  You spend hours and hours
>
> I was at a ProQuest Historical Newspapers demonstration where they asked
> for suggestions for other newspapers to digitize.  I suggested the Boston
> Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
> Atlanta Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle and Rocky Mountain News (I
> probably should have said New Orleans Times-Picayune as well) among
> current papers, and also said they should do some defunct but historically
> important papers such as New York Herald and New York Tribune.  In case I
> get another chance to make suggestions, are there any others I should push
> for?

The Portland Oregonian, the Miami Herald, the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
definitely the Times-Picayune, the Kansas City Star.

Historically I'd also add the New York World, but the N.Y. Herald
and Tribune would be more important.

Jesse Sheidlower