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The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford has just published an analysis of community
journalism in the United States, including an interactive map showing 300 years of American newspapers.
The story, by 2010 Knight Fellow Geo McGhee, is the rst in a new, hybrid academic/nonprot model for
innovative journalism he is helping develop at the center.
The interactive map, created by a team of journalists working together with scholars and students from
Stanfords history and computer science programs, tracks the growth of media from Bostons Publick
Occurrences in 1690 to the over 10,000 publications in print today. And as McGhee and 2010 Knight Fellow
Krissy Clark explain in an accompanying essay, the history of newspapers in the rural west is one of pulling
themselves up by the bootstraps following failure after failure and that may be the key to their success.

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The entire package can be seen at 300 Years of American Newspapers.

McGhee, a veteran multimedia journalist from The New York Times, ABCNews and Le Monde, is producer of
the acclaimed interactive documentary Journalism in the Age of Data. Now working at The Bill Lane research
center, he is collaborating across disciplines with scholars, technologists and fellow journalists to produce
stories, data visualizations and multimedia. Clark, the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for KQED Public Media, and
John McChesney, a top correspondent at National Public Radio for many years, were among the
contributors.

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