Over time, research on the 'immigrant press' in the communication field has been subsumed by other theoretical concepts, particularly 'ethnic' and 'transnational' media. This article reevaluates the relevance of the 'immigrant press' as a theoretically distinct concept as articulated by Park in his foundational book The Immigrant Press and its Control. Drawing on 27 interviews with editors, journalists, and publishers in three areas of the United States with different immigration histories and profiles, we conclude Park's defining characteristics of the immigrant press -an emphasis on the specificity of the first-generation immigrant's experience, serving as a cultural and civic translator while facilitating national identity, and being an aid to assimilation -are all applicable today, more so than the major themes expressed in literature on ethnic and transnational media.

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In-depth interviews with 19 news producers at 22 ethnic newspapers in three Pacific Northwest states reveal barriers to physical and digital preservation of back issues that include inadequate physical and digital space, limited personnel and financial resources and a lack of technological know-how for archiving the newspapers.T he day Cary Rosenbaum learned he was hired at the Tribal Tribune, a fire burned the administration building of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation to the ground. On July 29, 2013, the newspaper office in that building lost almost everything from computers to cameras to old newspapers. 1 In the days and weeks that followed, the newly hired media services manager saw the newspaper archives up close and realized the fire's toll. Just a few years earlier, when he worked in an interim position setting up the newspaper's website, he "just figured everything was taken care of" 2 in terms of archiving the Nespelem, Washington, newspaper, which had published since 1960. 3 It was not until Rosenbaum was hired and in charge that he realized the scope of a fire that had burned a recent decade of newspapers, and he also recognized how rodents and rain could harm even older records that were stored in buildings nearby. "We kind of had a fire lit under us, so-to-speak, when they told us we needed to remodel the community center where one-half of [the newspapers were] put," 4 Rosenbaum said. His work as a sports writer for the daily Coeur d'Alene Press andGustafson is a lecturer in the School for Interdisciplinary Arts

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