Newspapers
Free, digital news is threatening traditional newspapers around the world, so why do they survive and what is their future?
Free, digital news is threatening traditional newspapers around the world, so why do they survive and what is their future? Mike Williams speaks to legendary newspaper editor Sir Harry Evans and journalist in exile Qaabata Boru who fought to set up an independent newspaper in a Kenyan refugee camp.
Mike also hears from Melody Martinsen who owns and edits The Choteau Acantha, a tiny newspaper in rural Montana where not even the premature birth of her son stopped publication.
And at the British Library鈥檚 newspaper archive, Mike learns how, as chronicles of ordinary people鈥檚 lives, newspapers can throw up some surprise stories missed by the history books.
(Image: Early edition of the Daily Mirror spread on table. Credit: Image courtesy of the British Library)
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