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12 Cards in this Set
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First newspaper, created by Benjamin Harris, ran for one day.
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"Publick Occurences (Both Forreign and Domestick)" They had weird spelling.
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Second newspaper, created by John Campbell. Had advertisements. One page with no pictures.
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Boston Newsletter
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Published New York Weekly Journal, was arrested when,in newspaper, he spoke out against the British. Newsprint was burned.
His trial and the judges declaration of innocence paved the way for the free and independent press. |
John Peter Zenger
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Created the Penny Press and the New York Sun.
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Benjamin Day
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Sold papers for a penny while others sold for ten cents. Contained juicy, scandalous stories.
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Penny Press
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Owned a newspaper that brought wealth and power, controlled what information would reach the people.
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Lords of the Press
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Took pictures of Civil War soldiers and battles on both sides with newly developed photography.
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Matthew Brady
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Its invention allowed journalists to send stories to publishers and have them published that day, as opposed to them having to ride the story to their publisher on a horse and the story getting published maybe months after it happened.
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telegraph
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Hired Nellie Bly to go undercover and go across the world in a hot air balloon for news stories. Part of "yellow journalism". Competitor of Hearst.
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Played on fears of war and Cuba. Part of "yellow journalism". Competitor of Pulitzer.
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William Randolph Hearst
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Way of sending information quickly, with the most important facts first, by telegraph. Invented because of the danger of falling telegraph lines.
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inverted pyramid writing
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Organization of journalists. A journalist will write an article and it will publish that article for everyone, everywhere.
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Associated Press
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