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| Where was the parchment invented and when? |
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Who invented writing?
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| Who invented the first political news sheets? |
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| Who invented ink and paper? |
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| The printing press was invented by... |
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| What was the first book printed on the press? |
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| How many copies of the Latin Bible are still in existence today? |
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| When was the pencil invented? |
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| What was the first newspaper invented in England called? |
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| The first paper in America was called... |
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| Where was the first paper in American printed? When? Who was the person who printed it? How many issues were there? |
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| Boston, 1690, Benjamin Harris, one |
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| The Boston-News Letter by John Campbell was printed in...and was published by authority. What does "by authority" mean? |
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1704
with permission from the government |
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| This man published the New York Weekly Journal and was accused of libel, but was found innocent by the jury |
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What was the Stamp Act?
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a tax on periodicals
British, to make it harder for people to get the truth |
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| What are the Whig papers and the Tory papers? What are they trying to be now? |
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Whig = independent of Britain
Tory - aligned with the British crown
They are now trying to be objective |
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| What year was the First Amendment created? What freedoms did it offer? |
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| 1791 - religion, speech, press, peaceable assemble, grievance |
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| What was the first daily newspaper called? |
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| Nickname for a new kind of paper |
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| Benjamin Day started which newspaper? |
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| How much did the New York Sun sell for? What was used for the first time as fund-raising? |
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A penny
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| James Gordon Bennett started which newspaper? How much did it sell for? |
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| New York Herald - 2 cents |
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Horace Greeley printed the...
He was a social...
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New York Tribune
reformer
2,000 |
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| Who was the editor of the Boston Transcript in the 1840s? |
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| She was the first woman to cover Congress and also worked for Greeley's Tribune in the 1850s. |
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| In 1851, who established the New York Times? |
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| What year was the telegraph invented? |
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| What could have been the actual reason behind the cause of the Spanish-American war? |
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| What year was the telephone invented? |
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| Define yellow journalism. |
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| unethical, irresponsible journalism involving altered pics, screaming headlines, self-promotions/scoops |
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| William Randolph Heart and Joseph Pulitzer are famous... |
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| Who was Nellie Bly? What did she do? |
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| She was a female reporter and a famous muckraker |
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| reporters showing the bad side of things |
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| Critics call some reporters muckrakers but they take it as a |
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| What newspaper was founded by Robert S. Abbott, son of slaves? |
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| Who made the first newscast (via radio) in 1916? |
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Are shock jocks objective?
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| The first television transmission was in the... |
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What years did the Internet start?
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What...
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| Computer-assisted reporting |
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| What was the name of the first news sheets? |
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