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Colonial News pre 1690
1690 - The first newspaper issue in the United States was published, the Public Occurences. It was suppressed after its initial issue and the publication of a regular newspaper would not begin again until 170 -
First Paper in 1690
Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper published in America, was printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston on September 25, 1690. -
Count Of papers in the US in 1750
Fourteen weekly newspapers are read in the six most populated colonies -
Count of papers in the US 1770
February 1. Shadwell, the Jefferson family estate, burns. Most of Jefferson's personal and family papers and books are destroyed. -
First Amendment
First Amendment to the Constitution, protecting freedom of the press and other freedoms, is approved -
James Gordon Bennett
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American newspapers -
Penny Press
Benjamin Day issues the first edition of the New York Sun, America's first "penny press" newspaper. The cheap paper, sold for a fraction of the cost of all earlier newspapers, soon attracts a much wider audience by catering to the interests of New York City's ordinary citizens. -
Horace Greeley. 1841
Issues the first issue of New York Tribune. -
Yellow Journalism
Sensationalism, known as yellow journalism, is used to win papers more readers read. -
Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer buys the New York World from Jay Gould for $346,000. -
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst buys the New York Morning Journal, renams it the New York Journal and converts it to a penny paper like James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald. -
Muckracking
the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.
