The History Center’s current exhibit, Breaking the News, couldn’t hold all the stories of Monroe County newspapers. Here is another Breaking the News EXTRA: George W. Purcell – publisher of the Evening World. By Rod Spaw One of Bloomington’s 20th Century newspaper owners could boast of ties to the earliest days of journalism in the Hoosier State. George
The Monroe County History Center, along with the IU Archives and the Monroe County Public Library, have been fielding phone calls and questions for weeks once it was announced that bound copies of the Herald-Times were going to be auctioned off instead of being taken in by a local repository. Dina Kellams, Director of the
Blog post by Rod Spaw Viewing events through a political or ideological lens did not start with the internet, Fox News or MSNBC. It was not uncommon, in fact, for newspapers throughout much of U.S. history to rely on political patronage for their success. Even when the advertising model of business took over in the
