Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboy

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By Vincent DiGirolamo *97

Published July 16, 2019

Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboy (Oxford University Press) tells the story of America with the newsboy at the epicenter of cultural, economic, and political struggles and accomplishments. Vincent DiGirolamo *97 offers this well-researched book as a new perspective on newsboys as individuals worthy of research, vital to the surviving and well-being of their families, and instrumental to the development of a free press.

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