Product Description: This book takes a fresh look at the role of the newspaper in United States civic culture. Unlike other histories which focus only on the content of newspapers, this book digs deeper into ways of writing, systems of organizing content, and genres of presentation, including typography and pictures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the visual and graphic elements of newspaper page layout, and discusses how newspaper design shapes our impressions of the news as much as the words we read