the press

Notice something different about The Era’s front page? You may have spotted a QR code added just below the masthead, at the right side of the page. Sc...

Elite universities can work toward greater free speech, but things won’t improve until legacy campus publications are challenged. “We have conservativ...

The Bradford Era’s obituary deadline moving forward will be 3 p.m. daily, effective Monday, April 1.

PART 3: Here’s the last part of the story from Bradford Lion E.E. Lindemuth about his hometown that appeared in a 1924 edition of The Era during the s...

Phil Graham — likely known more as the husband to legendary Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham than his own work — once famously described new...

HEADLINES: Headlines, they are on every story and are what catches the eye of the reader. The same has been true throughout the history of newspapers....

WASHINGTON (TNS) — If The Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the “liberal Washington Post.” The news...

There will be no edition of The Bradford Era on Monday, Dec. 25, due to the federal holiday observed Christmas Day. The newsroom will be available via...

In a story regarding the Bradford Sanitary Authority in Thursday’s Era, the headline and first paragraph were incorrect. Correctly, sewer and stormwat...

Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or Metro, has received $2.4 billion in federal aid since the beginning of the pandemic but its ...

In honor of Newspaper Week, I would like to tell you why I don’t work at a newspaper. I don’t work at The Bradford Era. Print media is important, and ...

Sometimes we can’t know what it is we want, until we know what it isn’t. A previous employer demonstrated to me in no uncertain terms exactly the sort...

In honor of National Newspaper Week, I want to answer the most common question I’ve been asked since I started here in 2001 — “Why do you do it?” Mayb...

An op-ed in The New York Times warns, as the headline puts it, that “America is an empire in decline,” and finds a precedent in imperial Rome. The pie...

PAPERS: We have some more to bring you from the old microfilm of the M’Kean Orbit, the Smethport-based newspaper that began in 1849. Early on, this wa...

Dr. Betty Hayes may not be a name that rings a bell to most, but her concern for public health in southern Elk County in the 1940s went all the way to...

Congress in 1980 maintained the ability of the free press to do its job when it passed the Privacy Protection Act in response to a Supreme Court rulin...

It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate comp...

OLD PAPERS: In a prior column, we shared some headlines from a Nov. 13, 1918, copy of The Era, regarding World War I. Stories like “Committee appointe...

It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News & Small Business Support...