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Amateur Journalism History
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The purpose of The Fossils is to
stimulate interest in and preserve the history of independent
publishing, much of which took place in the hobby known as amateur
journalism.
Here are resources about amateur journalism and its history
available on this site:
- Martin Horvat put together a lot of information about
amateur journalism, much of it from Truman Spencer's book
History of Amateur Journalism. Because these pages were
previously located at the American Private Press Association
site, this section of The Fossils' Web site is known as Amateur Journalism History from
APPA.
- You can also view the table of
contents of Spencer's History of Amateur Journalism
with links to the APPA pages.
- Ken Faig's history of the Library of Amateur Journalism
(through 2003) went to press in spring 2005 as part of the
Fossil centenary book. The 55 page document is available in two
formats: