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Colonial News Pre-1690
Colonial pre-newspaper communication
Word of mouth
Letters from England
Newspapers from England
Broadsides -
First Paper In 1690
the first English-American news sheet debut—Boston's Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, published by Benjamin Harris. Facsimile of the first and only issue of the English-American colonies' first newspaper, published in Boston 1690. -
Count Of Papers In The US In 1750
Fourteen Weekly Newspapers Read In The Six Most Populated Colonies -
Count Of Papers In The US In 1770's
Less than a month after its approval, more than 20 newspapers -
Penny Press
Lynde M. Walter's Boston Transcript on July 24, 1830. The Sun, The NY Herald. Was sold for 1 cent, made available for all classes. Less politically influenced newspaper, allowed for more public opinion in media. Simple vocabulary and diction allowed for lower-class and less educated readers to easily understand. -
James Gordon Bennett
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (September 1, 1795 – June 1, 1872) was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald He moved to New York City in 1823 where he worked as a freelance paper writer and, then, assistant editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer.
In May 1835, Bennett began the Herald after years of failing to start a paper. In April 1836, it shocked readers with front–page coverage of the murder of prostitute Helen Jewett; Bennett conducted the first-ever newspaper Interview -
Horace Greeley, 1841
The New York Tribune, one of the earliest “penny dailies” popular in the era, was established in 1841. Greeley also would publish a weekly nationwide edition of the Tribune, which won him and his views wide recognition. The Tribune set a higher tone than its competitors by avoiding sensationalism and offering regular features such as book reviews -
Joseph Pulizter
Joseph Pulitzer (i/ˈpʊlɨtsər/ puul-it-sər;[2] April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911), 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. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected Congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption. In the 1890s the fierce competition -
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst (/ˈhɜrst/;[1] April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher who built the nation’s largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism.[2] Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father. Moving to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism is a term first coined during the famous newspaper wars between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer II. Pulitzer's paper the New York World and Hearst's New York Journal changed the content of newspapers adding more sensationalized stories and increasing the use of drawings and cartoons. As more cartoons were being published in newspapers, Pulitzer began to publish a cartoon of his own that he titled "The Yellow Kid" in 1896. The cartoon was created by R.F. Outcault
