History of Journalism TEST #1

By zakkaugust

  • Benjamin Harris

    Created "Publick Occurrences both Foreign and Domestic," the first attempt at a newspaper in the colonies

  • Freedom's Journal

    First African American owned newspaper, started lasted a year before being closed down, but spawned 24 other papers through its influence.

  • California Eagle

    Started by John J. Neimore and was taken over by Charlotta Bass, had 60,000 readers nationally.

  • Audit Bureau of Circulation

    Certified the circulation of papers, came about because of the Yellow Journalism battle between Hearst and Pulitzer. Confirmed amount of readers for newspapers to prevent ad space from being sold at too high of a cost.