The design and art blog, Curated Magazine, details an exhibition at The Museum of Idaho titled Hot Type, Hard Times. From the museum’s website:

The “Hot Type, Hard Times, 1900-1910″ exhibit opens a window on the city’s frontier past and the decade when civilization finally took root in Idaho Falls. Detailing the struggle waged for control of City Hall by saloonkeepers, bootleggers and gamblers against a reform movement led by two groups bent on civilizing the town.

The first decade of the 20th century was a technology-driven period of sweeping social change in Idaho Falls. In the middle of the decency fight were the town’s three newspapers - the staid Republican Idaho Register, the Idaho Falls Times backing the reform candidate, and a brash pro-labor newcomer, the Daily Post.

More pictures after the jump. Read the full post

Steve Pearlstein, business columnist for the Washington Post, wrote an open letter / opinion piece based on the recent remarks from Warren Buffet about purchasing newspapers from around the country that are struggling. This letter is filled with interesting (if not somewhat shrewd) quotes, such as this one, “Virtually every big city daily has been losing money, advertisers and readers at an alarming rate because of a disruptive new technology — the Internet — and the current recession.” Now, the problem that I think many see with that statement is the overtone that the internet is somehow a platform that the newspaper industry views as a detriment, not an opportunity, which has been their poor thinking all along. Read the full post

Professor Philip Meyer, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been a big influence on The Revival Network. Meyer wrote a book in 2004 titled The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, where in he discusses the problems that face the industry moving forward into new media. What’s most interesting is his Quality Project hypothesis, in which he perceived these greater problems arising before the more recent collapse. Read the full post