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The Basics

Newspapers

Daily, popular publications containing accounts of the day's events and other features. Most newspapers are typically published for a single city or town (The Wenatchee World), while papers from the largest cities (The New York Times) have a more global readership, and others target a more specialized audience (Wall Street Journal).

Strengths:

  • Local perspectives on a story
  • Primary source for events listings (ex., concerts)
  • Performance reviews
  • Good for local news stories
  • Announcement of new discoveries in the field of music (ex., lost Bach manuscript located)

Considerations:

  • Large city papers may publish separate city and national editions with different content
  • Articles written with newest developments first and background information later
  • Back issues of most papers are normally available only on microfilm, if at all
  • Web versions usually differ from print versions
  • Content may reflect publication biases and/or individual subjectivity of the author

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