History of Newspapers In America

By yoyored
  • Boston News Letter

    Boston News Letter
    It was America's first continuously-published newspaper. In the early years of its publication the News-Letter was filled mostly with news from London journals . http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/newspaper/
  • The New England Courant

    The New England Courant
    It was the creation of James Franklin, Benjamin's big brother. The 15-year-old Benjamin was a printer's apprentice for the Courant, Boston's third newspaper. http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/courant/index.htm
  • Virginia Gazette

    Virginia Gazette
    The news covered all of Virginia. Was printed successively by William Parks, William Hunter, Joseph Royle, Alexander Purdie, Purdie & John Dixon, Dixon & William Hunter Jr., and Dixon & Thomas Nicolson. There was three virsions of the newspaper and it stopped printing in 1780. http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm
  • The New York Post

    The New York Post
    This is the 13th oldest newspaper in America.The paper was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the New-York Evening Post, a broadsheet. Hamilton's co-investors included other New York members of the Federalist Party, such as Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott, who were dismayed by the election of Thomas Jefferson and the rise in popularity of the Democratic-Republican Party. www.nypost.com/
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer

    The Philadelphia Inquirer
    This newspaper has risen and fallen throught time but now its at one of its all time highs in popularity.The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. Owned by the local group Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC. http://www.philly.com/
  • The New York Times

    The New York Times
    The New York Times is a daily newspaper founded by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr, and is still printing more than ever! It is about what happens on a daily bases in New York. http://www.nytimes.com/
  • L.A. Times

    L.A. Times
    The newspaper was first being published every week and a half, bunt soon went bankrumpt. Then the papers printer took over the newspaper and it was going again. Now it has a 24-hour web newspaper at latimes.com and is almost just like the actual newspaper. latimes.com/history
  • The Wall Street Journal

    The Wall Street Journal
    The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company in New York City with Asian and European editions. As of 2007, It has a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million, with approximately 931,000 paying online subscribers. http://online.wsj.com/public/us/history
  • The Arizona Republic

    The Arizona Republic
    When it was first founded it was known for its racist points of view. Now it is like any other newspaper and not many people know about its racial history. The exact place it is being published is in Phoenix, Arizona. http://www.azcentral.com/
  • Houston Chronicle

    Houston Chronicle
    On March of 2008 the Houston Chronicle was the bigest daily newspaper in Texas and still is. It is also the sixteenth largest daily newspaper in the USA. It was founded in 1901 by Marcellus E. Foster, and its first published newspaper was on October 14. www.chron.com/history
  • The Daily Mirror

    The Daily Mirror
    It is a British tabloid newspaper. It was founded by Alfred Hamsworth as a newspaper for women, ran by women. That is why the name is "The aily Mirror"
  • Alaska Star

    Alaska Star
    The Alaska Star is a weekly newspaper in the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. The Alaska Star serves communities north of the Anchorage Bowl, including Eagle River, Chugiak and Eklutna. Like one of there articles was on "Fall carnival draws crazy crowd." All in all it is an okay newspaper. http://www.alaskastar.com/news/
  • Chicago Reader

    Chicago Reader
    The Chicago Reader is an alternative newsweekly in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded in 1971 by a group of friends who attended Carleton College. It is one of the more recent newspapers in the USA. http://www.chicagoreader.com/
  • The Washington Times

    The Washington Times
    The Wasington Times is a daily newspaper for Washingtion and prints about 102,351 newspapers each day. They are recently reporting about the 2008 presidential elections. http://www.washingtontimes.com/
  • USA Today

    USA Today
    This newspaper was founded in hope of having a national newspaper out in the market for the entire USA not just a single stat. It is also a daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Allen 'Al' Neuharth.The paper has the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States (averaging over 2.25 million copies every weekday), and among English-language broadsheets, it comes second world-wide, behind only the 2.6 million daily paid copies of The Times of India.