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The first colonial newspaper in America, Publick Occurrences, was published. British government forced Benjamin Harris and Richard Pierce to shut down newspaper for not having the right license.
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This was the first newspaper in America to survive beyond its first issue lasting for seventy-two years.
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This is part of the first amendment created to protect the right for the press to bring news to the general public.
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The first telegraph message was sent by inventor Samuel F.B Morse over an experimental line from D.C. to Baltimore.
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An example of "yellow Journalism" because it competed with other newspapers using bold headlines, comics, illustrations, and activist journalism.
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A series of classified documents released to the Times by Daniel Ellsberg relating to the Vietnam War.
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The venerable newspaper founded in 1917 said they will stop the print version of their publications and switch to fully online versions.
