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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
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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.
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Fourteen weekly newspapers are read in the six most populated colonies
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February 1. Shadwell, the Jefferson family estate, burns. Most of Jefferson's personal and family papers and books are destroyed.
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First Amendment to the Constitution, protecting freedom of the press and other freedoms, is approved
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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
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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.
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Issues the first issue of New York Tribune.
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Sensationalism, known as yellow journalism, is used to win papers more readers read.
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Joseph Pulitzer buys the New York World from Jay Gould for $346,000.
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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.
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the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.
