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America's first newspaper, Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick, is published in Boston. It lasts for just one issue.
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In Connecticut, Isaac Doolittle builds the first printing press made in American.
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The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids Congress from making any law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
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America's first penny press newspaper is Benjamin Day's New York Sun.
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Horace Greeley publishes New York Tribune
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A telegraph line stretches from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland, makes it possible for newspapers to offer timely coverage of distant events.
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A group of publishers start an organization to bring news from Europe. It will become the Associated Press (AP)
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The New York Journal publishes the first color Sunday comic pages
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Radio station KDKA begins broadcasting regularly scheduled programs at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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The FCC lets 18 television stations begin commercial broadcasting. CBS and NBC begin immediately. Hardly anybody watches. Station WCBW demonstrates the news potential with its bulletins on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Pentagon invents a communication system that will become the Internet.
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Ted Turner starts the Cable News Network (CNN)
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The Internet opens to commercial users
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Rupert Murdoch starts Fox News Channel on cable TV
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free online classified ads at Craigslist will grow to serve 500 cities with 30 million postings a month. This depletes newspaper classified ad sales, an important source of revenue.
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The digital revolution has fostered a mobile age. People are connected wherever they are. Half of American adults own a smartphone and a quarter have a tablet. Cars have internet connections. Access to news is easy 24/7
