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Title: Newspapers


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Newspapers
  • Chapter 3

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A Bit o History
  • Acta Diurna Rome
  • Corantos Diurnals
  • Colonial Newspaper Beginnings ? Broadsides
  • Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestic
  • Boston News-Letter
  • New England Courant turned Pennsylvania
    Gazette
  • Ben Franklin
  • 1st Editorial Cartoon
  • Several Newspapers
  • One of 1st American Magazines
  • Proved that ads could sell merchandise
  • Proved that Journalism could be an honorable
    profession

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January 2, 1750
Pennsylvania News Gazette
Identifies Ben Franklin as Publisher
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The New York Weekly Journal
  • Zenger
  • Sedition to promote dissaffection w/the
    govt.
  • Libel deliberately making public untruths
    about someone.

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Colonial Papers ? Limited
  • Technology
  • Literacy
  • Target Demographic issues
  • Expensive

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The Rise in Newspapers
  • 1830 New technology introduced
  • Penny Press became popular
  • New York Sun (It Shines for All Benjamin
    Day)
  • Quick story ?
  • Civil War
  • Info transfer by wire/telegraph
  • Ethnic Press
  • Yellow Journalism
  • Pulitzer and Hearst
  • Nellie Bly
  • Lowering of journalistic quality a result of
    marketplace change

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Developments That Shaped Todays Newspapers
  • Wire Services and Features Syndicates
  • AP
  • New York Times Service
  • King Features
  • Washington Post News Service
  • Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA)
  • Concentration of Ownership (Consequences)
  • Control of news / shape readers thinking
  • Local News Issue
  • Watchdog Traditions
  • News in conglomerate portfolio
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