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First Paper in 1690
Early American Newspaper -
First paper in 1690
the first newspaper published in America, was printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston on September 25, 1690. It filled only 3 of 4 six by ten inch pages of a folded sheet of paper. -
count of papers in the US in 1770
The number and geographical distribution of newspapers grew apace. number of papers is 31 -
First Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression; includes freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and freedom of religion and freedom of speech -
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
Penny press newspapers were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century. -
Horace Greeley, 1841
He founded The New Yorker in 1834 and became a contributing writer, supplementing his income by writing for the Whig Party. In 1941, he started the New York Tribune. Greeley founded the Liberal Republican Party in 1872 and subsequently ran for the U.S. presidency as a Liberal Republican -
Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer, born Pulitzer József, was a Hungarian-American Jewish newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s. -
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher who built the nation’s largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism. -
Yellow jurnalism
is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers -
muckraking
the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.it started in 1992 -
count of papers in the US in 1775
number of papers is 14
