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Historical Black Press Newspapers And Technology Adoption: The Weekly Challenger, Daytona Times, And Florida Courier, Indhira Suero Acosta
Historical Black Press Newspapers And Technology Adoption: The Weekly Challenger, Daytona Times, And Florida Courier, Indhira Suero Acosta
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
According to the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), there are more than 200 local and regional publications directed to the African-American community in the United States. On its website, the NNPA lists a total of 157 members from 29 states. Currently, there exists no research on how these publications have adopted technology throughout time, or if the adoption of new media contributes to their growth and survival in the publishing industry. In Florida, The Weekly Challenger, Daytona Times and Florida Courier, 3 of 13 historical newspapers directed at the African-American population, are connected in history and structure and apply different …