Chicago Tribune (now 2004)

[Willie]

The Washington Star.

Willie Schatz, who learned JOURNALISM as a part-timer there for four
fabulous years.

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From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Chicago Tribune (now 2004)


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> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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> >    Ah, they've discovered that the 19th century Chicago Tribune is
> > nearly illegible.  No surprise there!  You spend hours and hours
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> 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?
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> Fred Shapiro
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