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25 Cards in this Set

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1450's
Gutenburg, moveable type
1644
Milton "Areopagitica"
The Age of Reason (Englightenment)
Appeal to reason and information
1690
Publick Occurrences
1735
John Peter Zenger
libel defense
Power of State can be limited
1791
Bill of Rights
1st Amendment; Freedom Press
1833
Penny Press
Benjamin Walker
NY Sun
cheaper paper
faster presses
common people
1844
Telegraph
1847
Frederick Douglas; North Star
1851
Henry Raymond
New York Times
rise of professional journalism
1876
Telephone
1880-1910
Rapid growth (50.1 -> 92)
1880's to 1920's
Financial model shifts: selling the newspaper to selling the audience
1898
Yellow Journalism
1900's
Muckrakers
1920's
Radio grows
1939
Commercial TV
1949
Public broadcasting
1956
Four Theories of Press published
1963
Assassination of JFK, TV news saturation
1960's - 2000's
40 years of news media profits, consolidation, complete ownership
1982
USA Today: Gannett chain
National circulation
Graphic impact (weather page, informational graphics)
Short articles, 1st person, conversational, we and us when talking about US, notion of national circulation by state, NATION'S paper
1980's
Networked personal computers
1990's
Internet and Web
2000's
Smartphones and social networks