Robert E. Park’s “The Natural History of the Newspaper”

Doing some reading for a book project I’m working on I came across Park’s “The Natural History of the Newspaper” and had an idea. [The text is by Robert E. Park, who was associated with the famous Chicago School of urban sociology, and it was included in the edited volume of work by Park, Burgess and McKenzie (and Louis Wirth) originally published in 1925 (5th edition U Chicago P, 1968)]. Continue reading