Introduction: what was a newspaper?
The making of industrial print culture
Forests, trade, and empire
The continental newsprint market and the perils of dependency
The local newspaper as international corporation
Robert McCormick and the politics of planning
Work and culture along the newsprint supply chain
The diversified newspaper corporation
The industrial newspaper and its legacies
The problem of paper in the age of electronic media
Conclusion: media infrastructures, old and new.