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Publick Occurrences
The first newspaper is published in America, Publick Occurrences. -
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How Journalism Go Started
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First Daily Newspaper
The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant. The Courant was first published (periodical)in 1621. -
Count of papers in the US in 1750
By 1750, the US and 14 weekly newspapers were being published in the colonies. -
Count of papers in the iUS in 1770s
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First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -
James Gordan Bennett
He was born September 1, 1795, Keith, United Kingdom. He died June 1, 1872, New York City, NY. 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
Lynde M. Walter's Boston Transcript on July 24, 1830. Was sold for 1 cent, made available for all classes. Less politically influenced newspaper, allowed for more public opinion in media -
Horace Greeley 1841
He had accumulated enough capital to launch a weekly literary and news journal, the New Yorker, and, in 1840, a Whig campaign weekly, the Log Cabin. -
Yellow Journalism
When McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901, critics accused Hearst's Yellow Journalism of driving Leon Czolgosz to the deed. -
Muckraking
the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way. -
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. He used the newspaper to go againest th Marihuana Tax -
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
