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  News was spread by people and government.
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  in 1690, Boston printer Benjamin Harris produced the first issue of Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper published in Britain's North American colonies.
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  !4 papers in US.
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  31 papers in the US.
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  Penny press newspapers were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century.
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  James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (May 10, 1841 – May 14, 1918) was publisher of the New York Herald.