early news & political authority
This ancient Roman publication shared government notices with the public
Acta Diurna
Who publishes the Boston News-Letter?
John Campbell
A 1765 British law that taxed printed materials and sparked resistance from American printers.
Stamp Act
What year was the Associated Press established?
1848
What changed newspapers in the 1990s?
The Internet
These European news sheets from the 1620s reported on wars and trade.
Corantos
This was the first independent colonial newspaper
New England Courant
The first African American newspaper to give Black Americans a voice in the press.
Freedom Journal
Famous newspaper publisher of the New York World
Joseph Pulitzer
This type of advertising was affected by the internet.
Classified advertising
These singe-sheet publications appeared in the colonies around 1625.
broadsides and broadsheets
Who published the Pennsylvania Gazette?
Benjamin Franklin
A newspaper founded by Benjamin Day in 1833 that became an early example of the penny press.
The New York Sun
Sensational style of journalism in the 1880s-1890s
Yellow Journalism
What happened to print newspaper circulation in the 2000s?
It started to decline
Benjamin Harris
What was America's first political cartoon?
"Join, or Die"
A new newspaper business model that used low prices and advertising to reach a larger mass audience.
Penny Press
Newspaper Preservation Act tried to preserve this
Competition
This began to grow as print newspapers declined.
Online news
This was the name of Benjamin Harris's 1690's newspaper.
Publik Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick.
Who was tried for seditious libel in 1734?
John Peter Zenger
Stories focused on everyday people, crime, court cases, entertainment, and ordinary life.
Human-Interest Stories
The ASNE established this in 1923
Journalism ethics principles
The Internet overtook newspapers as the main news source during this year.
2009