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The Newspaper Timeline

The Newspaper Timeline. 1690 Newspapers Come to the United States. Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick. 1704 until the Revolutionary War. Boston News-Letter. 1721 – Other newspapers followed. New England Courant. 1833. Benjamin Day founded the New York Sun. 1841.

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The Newspaper Timeline

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  1. The Newspaper Timeline

  2. 1690Newspapers Come to the United States • Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick

  3. 1704 until the Revolutionary War • Boston News-Letter

  4. 1721 – Other newspapers followed • New England Courant

  5. 1833 • Benjamin Day founded the New York Sun

  6. 1841 • The New York Tribune started by Horace Greeley

  7. 1851 • The New York Times founded by Henry Raymond

  8. 1880-1890 • Bigger and better presses allowed for faster printing and circulation increased • Photographs began to appear in the newspapers

  9. Yellow Journalism • Reporting sensational news stories that stretched the truth • The term yellow journalism was derived from a comic strip character named “The Yellow Kid.” The Kid was a street urchin in a yellow nightshirt created by artist Richard Outcast.

  10. 1896 • Richard Outcast’s Yellow Kid first appeared in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in a cartoon known Hogan’s Alley.

  11. 1920 • The number of daily newspapers increased until this time—when there were more than 2,000 in circulation. A gradual decline occurred over the next 50 years. New techniques and machines made printing more efficient, but also more expensive. Mergers, chains, and consolidations of newspapers resulted.

  12. 1950 • The advent of the television also contributed to the decreased in the number of papers.

  13. 1990 • Reporters could send news from around the world almost instantly using laptops and modems.

  14. 1997 Statistics indicated: • 1500 daily newspapers were in circulation • 800 of these were afternoon papers • 700 were morning papers • Only 12 newspapers published both a morning and an evening paper

  15. Today • About 59% of Americans say they read the newspaper every day. The number of readers is slightly higher for Sunday editions.

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