Important People
This person is recognized as the inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph.
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
Most daily papers were known as this because they only cost one cent versus normal papers that cost six cents.
What is the penny press/penny papers?
This was viewed as the greatest news story of the 19th century.
What is the Civil War?
This language, which contains patterns of dots and dashes to represent letters, was used by telegraph transmitters.
What is Morse Code?
A feature that drew the reader’s attention to the plight of some poor, miserable individual on the urban scene, often written by women who became known as "sob sisters".
What is a sob story?
This man was a known abolitionist and owned The Liberator newspaper.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This "wire service," still in operation today, was founded in 1846 to cut the costs of sending news dispatches over the telegraph. Today it is better known as the creator of journalistic style standards.
What is the Associated Press(AP)?
This former slave taught himself to read and write and became one of the most well-known black abolitionists and journalists.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This photographic innovation used dots of ink to represent shading in a photograph.
What is halftone?
This type of journalism is known for its sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
What is yellow journalism?
This man is one of the most recognized journalists in history and he bought the New York Word in 1883.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
This newspaper revolutionized news by pushing out copies daily in New York City under the leadership of Benjamin Day.
What is the Sun?
This newspaper began publishing in 1861 and was the first newspaper owned by Black people.
This technology increased the speed at which news traveled and because of its tolls by word is responsible for the development of the hard news lead.
What is the (electromagnetic) telegraph?
This type of story aimed to reveal wrongdoing and was often written by Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells.
What is exposé?
The New York Herald was founded by this man and focused on political and crime news.
Who is James Gordon Bennett?
This newspaper was founded by Horace Greeley and focused on women's rights, free labor, and western expansion.
What is The New York Tribune?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first telegraph line was installed from Washington D.C to this city.
What is Baltimore?
By 1900, this accounted for 55% of newspaper income.
What is advertising?
This woman is one of the most well-known Black journalists for her coverage of lynchings in the South.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This motto was used by the Sun to present the paper as affordable to everyone.
What is "it shines for all"?
Officials prohibited the sale of this abolitionist newspaper in Southern states.
What is the Liberator?
This invention allowed for an entire line of type to be set at once.
What is the linotype?
This man rivaled Pulitzer during the yellow journalism period and was the owner of the Examiner.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?