It is also important that those who study newspapers don't do so in isolation of an examination of readers' understanding of any given situation.
(@JosephStash) Simon is a freelance journalist on the Guardian's Scott Trust Bursary scheme, studying newspaper journalism at City University.
She has spent hours studying newspaper clips from the 1964 campaign, an aide said, and lessons drawn from the Kennedy candidacy have shaped much of what she has done these last 15 months.
Beyond sifting through death certificates, hospital ledgers and other official inventories of exit stories, the researchers are studying newspaper accounts of the racier fatalities, diaries, personal letters, any source they can disinter short of hauling out a shovel.
Using magazine surveys, university studies, newspaper articles and interviews with 72 women born between 1960 and 1979, Kamen presents a picture of how women's sex lives have changed since the sexual revolution of the 1960's and 70's.
Because of Nellie's reticence, Ms. Quinn's mother, Mary, did not know that her mother had been on the Titanic until she studied newspaper coverage of it in the eighth grade.
British criminologists have made the assessment after studying newspaper records of "family annihilator" events over the period from 1980 to 2012.
Among the studied newspapers were: UK: Telegraph, Guardian, Mail; Germany: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Bild, taz.
(An old photograph shows seven retired salts studying newspapers in the Reading Room while wearing identical light-colored straw fedoras).
Asked about the trend, James Naughton, the president of the Poynter Institute, a Florida organization that studies newspapers, said: "Newspapers have for many years had the ability to sell death notices to funeral homes and individuals and to publish obituaries.
