[1] The Press Connection began as a weekly but became a daily early in 1978 in an effort to intensify pressure on management of Madison Newspapers, Inc. to make concessions to the union.
The Press Connection was published through early January 1980[2] and is available on microfilm, along with 9 boxes of archival business records and photographs, from The State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
[3] The Press Connection provided serious competition by scooping the larger papers on numerous stories, and by publishing controversial articles and cartoons.
It evolved from a strike paper to one of the few cooperatively organized and owned daily newspapers ever to exist in the United States.
The Press Connection's cooperative structure was credited as the reason for numerous journalistic risks that corporate media avoided, including the publication in 1979 of an article purporting to provide the "secrets" of building an H-bomb.