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The first paper published in America, was printed by Richard Pierce & edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston on September 25, 1690.
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On July 24, 1830, the first ever penny press paper came to out, Lynde M. Walter's Boston Transcript.
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Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune in 1841.
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Hearst was an American publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chains. The term 'yellow journalism' originated with him.
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Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. The term originated from publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
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The action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.
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The founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American newspapers.
