Historyof journalism
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Early American Newspapers
Benjamin Harris – Publick Occerences (1690)
Benjamin Franklin – Pennsylvania Gazette (1754)
Marketing to the Masses
1 cent meant more affordable
Independent of political parties
Local news, crime coverage, human interest stories
Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst vs Joseph Pulitzer
Loud headlines
Sensational stories
Lavish pictures (often faked)
Spanish-American War (1898)
The 1900s
Start of the decline of newspaper
Radio (1920)
TV (post 1942)
Newspaper becomes more fact based
Big facts first, less important later in story
Today and Beyond
If I were to ask you to go home and come back tomorrow with a news story, where would you look first?
How many of you get the paper delivered to your house?