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