Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/States

U.S. Newspapers sub-project
The WikiProject Newspapers has a sub-project researching current and defunct United States newspapers. The following template contains links to the current Wikipedia lists of newspapers in each of the 50 states, territories, and the District of Columbia. Most of these lists are grouped or sortable by name of the newspapers, location where the newspaper was published, and year founded. There may also be lists for defunct newspapers within these lists or in separate articles.

The links below are to research pages for researching articles or lists of newspapers in each of the 50 U.S. states and District of Columbia. These pages contain list specific resources for researching newspapers in each state/district and a list of draft newspapers needed or draft articles being created for each state. Before adding a new draft article, review the above lists of newspapers to make sure the article has not already been created.


 * /Alabama/
 * /Alaska/
 * /Arizona/
 * /Arkansas/
 * /California/
 * /Colorado/
 * /Connecticut/
 * /Delaware/
 * /Florida/
 * /Georgia/
 * /Hawaii/
 * /Idaho/
 * /Illinois/
 * /Indiana/
 * /Iowa/
 * /Kansas/
 * /Kentucky/
 * /Louisiana/
 * /Maine/
 * /Maryland/
 * /Massachusetts/
 * /Michigan/
 * /Minnesota/
 * /Mississippi/
 * /Missouri/
 * /Montana/
 * /Nebraska/
 * /Nevada/
 * /New Hampshire/
 * /New Jersey/
 * /New Mexico/
 * /New York/
 * /North Carolina/
 * /North Dakota/
 * /Ohio/
 * /Oklahoma/
 * /Oregon/
 * /Pennsylvania/
 * /Rhode Island/
 * /South Carolina/
 * /South Dakota/
 * /Tennessee/
 * /Texas/
 * /Utah/
 * /Vermont/
 * /Virginia/
 * /Washington/
 * /Washington, D.C./
 * /West Virginia/
 * /Wisconsin/
 * /Wyoming/

A short 5 minute video shows how to add resources to one of these state pages.

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All U.S. states have list class articles showing current and defunct newspapers located within the state. This sub-project project aims to fill an important gap on Wikipedia: There are over 156 thousand newspapers that have existed in the United States according to the Library of Congress's Chronicling America project. Most of the major newspapers have Wikipeida articles. However, many notable historical and local newspapers have no Wikipedia entry or have a very minimal stub. When people read stories from one of these newspapers (while reading or writing Wikipedia articles, or in any scenario), Wikipedia should serve as a resource for them to evaluate, at least at a basic level, its quality as a source. This project's current major initiative is to create new newspaper articles with entries of basic information in the list of newspapers by state, infoboxes using the   template, images, street address and coordiantes, history section, and talk page with the    template.

Since it should be a relatively simple task to gather and assemble the information in the state lists and create a short article with Infobox and history, we hope to recruit some new Wikipedia editors, such as students guided by class assignments, in the process.

Based on the success of this project in 2018, we hope it can serve as a model for future projects for newspapers in other parts of the world.

General resources for researching U.S. newspapers

 * This is a directory of U.S. daily & weekly newspapers. It includes circulation data, editor, and publisher information.
 * This is a list of newspapers by state, then by county within state. It contains circulation data for the prior year.
 * Some early copies are available on Google Books, Internet Archive, etc.
 * This book is a very sparse history of American newspapers which covers some important firsts.
 * . Excellent directory of U.S. newspapers published between 1821-1936.
 * American journalism: a history of newspapers in the United States, by Frank Luther Mott, Routledge, 2000
 * Some early copies are available on Google Books, Internet Archive, etc.
 * This book is a very sparse history of American newspapers which covers some important firsts.
 * . Excellent directory of U.S. newspapers published between 1821-1936.
 * American journalism: a history of newspapers in the United States, by Frank Luther Mott, Routledge, 2000

African-American newspapers
WikiProject Newspapers/Black owned newspapers
 * , Covers 1989 to 1998; full text available online.
 * , African-American newspaper members

Stories about the project
The following are some interesting stories about this project:

Other North American countries

 * /Missing North American sovereign state/
 * /Missing North American dependencies and territories/

Newspaper companies
United States Other
 * 21st Century Media - 21st Century Media, formerly Journal Register Company
 * - Adams Publishing Group
 * Berkshire Hathaway - Berkshire Hathaway
 * - Boone Newspapers
 * COX - Cox Enterprises
 * CNHI - Community Newspaper Holdings
 * Digital First Media - Digital First Media
 * Dow Jones - Dow Jones & Company
 * EWS CORP - E. W. Scripps Company
 * Forum Communications - Forum Communications
 * Gannett - Gannett Company, former Halifax Media, GateHouse Media
 * Graham - The Washington Post Company
 * Hearst - Hearst Communications
 * Knight Ridder Newspapers - Knight Ridder
 * Lee Enterprises - Lee Enterprises
 * McClatchy - McClatchy
 * The New York Times - The New York Times
 * News Corporation - News Corp (2013–present)
 * NNE - Newspapers of New England
 * NXST TV - Nexstar Media Group
 * Ogden Newspapers - Ogden Newspapers
 * Paxton Media Group - Paxton Media Group
 * Sandusky Newspapers - Sandusky Newspapers
 * Seattle Times - The Seattle Times Company
 * Shaw Newspapers - Shaw Media (United States)
 * Tribune Publishing - Tribune Publishing
 * UCCorp - United Communications Corporation
 * Voice Media Group - Voice Media Group
 * WEHCO WEHCO Media
 * Western Communications - Western Communications
 * Western News - Western News & Info
 * - Wick Communications
 * Glacier Media - Glacier Media, Canada
 * Press Holdings - Press Holdings, United Kingdom
 * News Corp Australia - News Corp Australia, Australia
 * Nine Entertainment - Nine Entertainment Co., Australia