Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West offers a series of essays and an interactive chart on the growth of newspapers in America since the late seventeenth century.
All the essays are informative. Embedded below is a video that illustrates newspapers’ expansion, across the centuries, across this continent.
The Growth of US Newspapers, 1690-2011 from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.
Via Data Visualization: Journalism’s Voyage West | Rural West Initiative.