Memorable news events result in iconic newspaper covers. Here are 16 of the most important and shocking headlines from the past century.

The thing is not so improbable as it sounds. An ambitious newspaper man, Harmsworth had a history of buying up and turning around struggling newspapers.

The word saw, ahem, record usage in The New York Times in 2008. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed throughout the history of the newspaper. On ...

Dauber trips up on early newspaper history at times, mangling the story of how William Randolph Hearst came to call his New York newspaper The American (it was during a 1901 controversy over an ...

America's Newspaper History Gets Mapped Stanford researchers put together a map charting journalism's progress west By Dino Grandoni August 8, 2011 ...

Rupert Murdoch finally launched his much anticipated (at least in media circles) “iPad newspaper” today, making News Corp. the first company to create a daily news publication exclusively for ...