Readings for March 18

Here are the theme readings for this week:

• Paul Starr, "Goodbye to the age of newspapers (hello to a new era of corruption)," The New Republic (04 March 2009).
• Ken Doctor, "The newsonomics of zero and The New York Times," Nieman Journalism Lab (14 February 2013).
• James Baughman, "Wounded but not slain: The orderly retreat of the American newspaper," in David Paul Nord et al., A History of the Book in America, vol. 5 (2009).
• Eric Alterman, "Out of print," The New Yorker (31 March 2008).

And here are the extra readings relating to our guest, Carol Tilley from the University of Illinois:

• Ernesto Priego, "Comics scholarship in the digital age," The Arts Pages (24 August 2012).
• Scott McCloud, "The 'Infinite Canvas'" (February 2009).  
• Bob Callahan, "No more yielding but a dream," in From Crumb to Clowes: The New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories (2004).
• A short piece by comics artist Chris Ware.

Finally, here are the assignments:

• Bard and Roeder: Starr article summary and author info, respectively
• Marshall and Boehm: Callahan article summary and author info, respectively
• Stalker and Zhang: Doctor article summary and author info, respectively
• Pratesi and Meneses-Hall: Alterman article summary and author info, respectively
• Bottomley and Bond: Baughman article summary and author info, respectively
• Toff and Ineichen: Priego article summary and author info, respectively
• Pegues: McCloud article summary