selective home delivery. With the notable exception of Viet Mercury, a now-defunct, 35,000-circulation weekly Vietnamese-language paper published by Knight Ridder's San Jose Mercury News, U.S. media companies have generally eschewed the Asian market even though daily papers in Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese are thriving in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities. The Mandarin-language World Journal, which distributes from San Francisco to Toronto and states a circulation (unaudited) of 350,000. World Journal; its biggest competitor, Sing Tao (181,000 circulation unaudited); and Korea Times (254,000, also unaudited) are owned by international media giants based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Seoul, respectively. In 2014, Connecting Cleveland, a four-page paper with stories in English and Nepali was launched to serve Nepali-speaking Bhutanese families in the Cleveland, Ohio area. See also African-American newspapers History of journalism History of newspaper publishing Irish American journalism Mass media and American politics Preservation (library and archival science), for preservation of old copies References Sources This article copies from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). VOLUME XV. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. Colonial Newspapers and Magazines, 1704–1775 by Elizabeth Christine Cook (1917). Newspapers, 1775–1860 by Frank W. Scott (1917). This material is copyright-expired and is in the public domain Further reading General: scholarly secondary sources Barnhurst, Kevin G., and John Nerone. The Form of News, A History (2001) Blanchard, Margaret A., ed. History of the Mass Media in the United States, An Encyclopedia. (1998) Brennen, Bonnie and Hanno Hardt, eds. Picturing the Past: Media, History and Photography. (1999) Caswell, Lucy Shelton, ed. Guide to Sources in American Journalism History. (1989) Daly Christopher B. Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism (University of Massachusetts Press; 2012) 544 pages; identifies five distinct periods since the colonial era. DiGirolamo, Vincent, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019). Emery, Michael, Edwin Emery, and Nancy L. Roberts. The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media 9th ed. (1999), standard textbook; best place to start. Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003) Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States. (2014). McKerns, Joseph P., ed. Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism. (1989) Marzolf, Marion. Up From the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists. (1977) Miller, Sally M. The