Research Guides: History of Cleveland &amp; Northeast Ohio: Cleveland Journalism

Michael Schwartz Library

Using Newspapers

Searchable Plain Dealer page at Cleveland Public Library
If you have the "right" CPL borrower's card, you may access a site for performing keyword searches of the Plain Dealer between 1845 and 1991. Otherwise use the next link, below.
Searchable Plain Dealer through Cuyahoga County Public Library.
Same resource as through CPL and the PD.
Searchable Plain Dealer at Cleveland.com
This form of access for searching the Plain Dealer is fee-based. You may sign up for a day or a month.
Cleveland Press Collection clipping files
One million subject-sorted newspaper clippings were donated to Cleveland State when the Cleveland Press went out of business in 1982. Covering the last 50 years of its operation, these clippings are a valuable view of Cleveland from the perspective of the city's major daily paper. These clippings are NOT available on-line.
Cleveland Call and Post
An on-line, searchable database of the Cleveland Call & Post, 1930-1991. Requires a Cleveland Public Library card to access it, however.
Electronic Newspaper Access
Some are free, but some are subscription-based and only available to the CSU or OhioLINK community.
National Digital Newspaper Program
A Library of Congress project. Ohio Historical Society is the partner for Ohio and there are digitized sections of some Ohio newspapers available here.
Youngstown Vindicator guide at YSU

History

Baldasty, Gerald J. (1999). E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers.

Covert, John C. (1892). "The Pioneer Press in Cleveland" in The Annals of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County."

Kennedy, Charles E. (1925) Fifty Years of Cleveland...A book largely about daily newspapers 1875-1925.

Porter, Phillip (1976). Cleveland: Confused city on a seesaw.

Rose, William G. (1990) Cleveland: the making of a city.

Shaw, Archer. (1942). The Plain Dealer: one hundred Years in Cleveland.

Tidyman, John. Gimme Rewrite Sweetheart: Tales from the glory days of Cleveland newspapers--told by the men and women who reported the news.

Biography & Memoir

Casserly, Jack (1993). Scripps: the divided dynasty.

Gardner, Gilson (1932). Lusty Scripps: the Life of E.W. Scripps.

McCabe, Charles (ed.). (1951). Damned Old Crank: a self-portrait of E.W. Scripps drawn from his unpublished writings.

O'Donnell, Doris (2006). Front-Page Girl.

Seltzer, Louis B. (1956). The Years Were Good.

Wood, James (2011). Out & About with Winsor French.

Collections & Anthologies

Bellamy, John Stark & Condon, George (eds.). One Man's Mirror: S.J. Kelly's wonderful Cleveland wayback machine.

Condon, George (1968). Laughter from the Rafters.

Feagler, Dick (1996). Feagler's Cleveland.

-----------------(1998). Did You Read Feagler Today?

-----------------(2001). I Know I'm Not Supposed to Say This...But I'll Say It Anyway.

-----------------(2005). Is It Just Me?

Heaton, Chuck (2007). Truth and Justice for Fun and Profit.

McDermott, William (1959). The Best of Mcdermott: Selected writings.

Porter, Phillip (1979). The Best of Loveland.

Schultz, Connie (2006). Life Happens and Other Unavoidable Truths.