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The Fort Pitt Gazette
Hall & Scull
1786 |
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| The ________ __________ had big problems printing its first issue b/c the type and the press had to be brought through the mountains. |
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Kentucky Gazette in Lexington
-started when?
-who was the editor?
-why did it take so long? |
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1787
John Bradford
the boat with the equipment sank on the way |
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| by _____, there were 21 newspapers in the west. |
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Tennessee "Knoxville" Gazette
-first produced where?
-who printed it?
-where? |
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Rogersville (1791 Nov.) then a year later it moved to Knoxville.
George Roulstone
Printed in a 16x12 hut. |
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| Arkansas Paper started when? What was it called? Who was the editor? |
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Nov. 20, 1819
The Arkansas Gazette
William Woodruff |
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-1794
-until 1830 it had low circulation
-papers targeted towards rich and educated |
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| Penny Press brought great change in Journalism...why? |
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| Workers could now afford papers. It wasn't just aimed towards the rich and educated any longer. It increased literacy and public education, and better presses were used with moveable type. |
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| The Penny Press was what? |
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| Very Sensational, Attractive to the common person, cut across political interest (no party affiliation), attracted advertisers as circulation grew |
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Morning Post
released 1/1/1833 by Dr. H.D. Shepard
Story and Greeley were the printers |
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| Why did the Morning Post fail as a penny newspaper? |
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-bad start date
*hangovers, blizzard conditions
-not enough capital to run at a loss
-no advertising
-no promotion
-no staff
-no organized circulation |
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| The First Successful Penny Paper |
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September 3, 1833
4 page paper 4x11
Benjamin Day
organized newsboys (sold to newsboys for 2/3 a cent and the newsboys sold them for a penny...making 1/3 cent profit)
printed 6 days a week (not sunday)
this paper altered the whole course of american journalism |
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James Gordon Bennett (Editor)
Hoaxes to boost circulation
Continued into the 20th Century |
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Editor of the Herald
Associate Editor of the Courier and Inquirer
Anti-Religion (originally catholic)
no friends, perverse tactics (pried into private lives) |
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Thomas Paine
May 6, 1835
Knows what makes people talk
sensational, questionable advertising
Ran until late 1890s |
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| James Watson Webb (and James G. Bennett) |
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| Beat up Bennett in the streets with his cane because of something he printed about him (saying that he had been paid off by brokers in the stock market to rig it). After this, Bennett printed another article describing the beating, selling more copies of his paper. |
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Considered to be the father of the editorial page
born to a poor family in vermont, he was apprenticed by age 5.
Helped organize the typographer's union.
Published the New Yorker, The Log Cabin (a campaign publication for William Henry Harrison) and came out with the Tribune April 1, 1841. |
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prime founder of the NY Times.
learned how to be an editor from greeley, then left once webb offered him more money. |
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| The NY Herald hired __________, a reporter that was to be sent to cover the Mexican War. |
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Journal of Commerce
President of the AP at its founding |
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September 18, 1851
Raymond was the driving force behind the paper
within a year, circulation had already caught up with the tribune.
George Jones took over the paper after Raymond's death. |
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| Springfield MA Republican |
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paper that was to become the second daily newspaper in that state, and was to become the largest (boston excluded) in its day.
Samuel Bowles started it in 1824.
Became known as a training ground for editors or the "Samuel Bowles School of Journalism."
Horace Greeley was a supporter of this paper, often picking up the editorials to run in the Tribune. |
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Founded in 1847 by Scripps
sold quickly to Joseph Medill "Lincoln's press agent" |
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Editor of the St. Louis Observer, starting in 1834.
Killed because of his anti-slavery stance in his writing.
Had to move from St. Louis to Alton for a while because of mob action, but was killed in Alton by a mob.
People who were not concerned with the issue of slavery before became concerned after this incident. |
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Editor of the Liberator (Boston)
Founded in 1831, the paper advocated abolition strongly through the civil war until the emancipation proclamation was passed.
publication was then suspended because Garrison believed his goal had been reached. |
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| Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Was forced to leave memphis in 1862 under Dill (editor) when federal troops occupied memphis.
moved from MS to TN to AL then finally to GA.
The paper became known as the "moving appeal", printing in 10 different towns in 4 different states.
after the war it appeared in memphis again, eventually merging with another paper to become the commercial appeal. |
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1855, Alexander Cummings
started as a religious daily newspaper
Bought out the Courier and the Enquirer |
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Benjamin Wood
A copperhead newspaper
southern states should be able to secede and NY should be their capitol. |
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