Foundations of the
American Press
American Press
Who is considered the Father of journalism in America?
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
What did the term "free press" mean in the 1769s lead up to the Revolution?
Printer-editors who ran most of the newspapers in the colonies began to take sides on issues.
Which paper is considered the “pioneer” of the Penny Press?
What is the New York Sun, published by Benjamin Day starting September 3, 1833.
Who played the most important role in shaping the press after the Revolution, and how?
What are Thomas Jefferson. He was active in defining “the liberty of the press” and built a network of newspapers to support his emerging political party.
What are the major traditions of journalism?
What are reporting, advocacy, and exposé
What was the first successful newspaper in America and who published it?
What were The Boston News-Letter (founded in 1704) and published by Postmaster John Campbell
When was Common Sense published and what did Thomas Paine seek?
What were January 10, 1776, in Philadelphia and
he called for “an open and determined declaration for independence” … . Six months after it appeared, Paine got his “declaration for independence”
What was the Associated Press and who created it?
What was a cooperative, unincorporated association that produces news reports distributed to its members, founded by Moses Yale Beach, publisher at the time of the New York Sun. (He bought it form Benjamin Day in 1838.)
Who was James Thomson Callender and who did he expose?
What is a writer for Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Aurora who exposed Alexander Hamilton's extortion payments to James Reynolds who found out Hamilton had been sleeping with his wife, and that Jefferson engaged in sexual relations with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.
What are four advances that helped newspapers prosper starting in the 1830s?
What are steam powered printing presses, the advent of railroads and the telegraph for faster distribution and spread of news, and the Associated Press.
What paper was started by Benjamin Franklin’ older brother, James?
What was the New-England Courant
How was Common Sense different?
What is it was written in plain English, very straightforward and direct, which helped guide the colonist’s understanding of revolution and strengthen their resolve to pursue it. Paine’s approach was a first for its time.
How did the Penny Press change the content of newspapers?
What is newspapers started covering crime and salacious things to make sure readers “needed” to buy the paper every day.
How did Horace Greeley influence Abraham Lincoln?
What is Lincoln attended a Greeley lecture, admired Greeley's words about slavery's role in the American Civil War, and was inspired by Greeley's ideas to eventually issue the emancipation proclamation.
What newspaper did James Gordon Bennet launch?
What was The New York Herald on May 6, 1835, priced at a penny like the Sun. It was designed to appeal to an even broader audience, all classes of New Yorkers.
How did Benjamin Franklin get his start as a journalist?
What is he presented the first of his anonymous manuscripts, signed “Silence Dogood,” to his brother's print shop when he was 16. Silence Dogood was a country widow, a woman who had been married to a minister and had given birth to three little Dogoods.
What did Thomas Paine do after the Revolution started?
What are he joined the militia and Continental Army, and wrote The American Crisis, (13 issues) which fostered support for the war.
What did the success of the New York Sun and other Penny Press newspapers allow them to do?
What is to stop being dependent on officeholders for subsidies, printing contracts, or there spoils of political victory. Instead the Sun would be independent, handing out praise and criticism to politicians of any party according to merit.
Who was Benjamin Franklin Bache and what did he believe?
What are Benjamin Franklin’s grandson, editor of a paper in Philadelphia called The Aurora, and he believed in the power of the press to hold government officials accountable
What was Benjamin Franklin's newspaper in Philadelphia?
What is the Pennsylvania Gazette. (founded around 1729 when he was 23)
John Peter Zenger: Paper, trouble, outcome?
What were the New York Journal, he published an article by James Alexander (Alexander Hamilton’s brother) critical of New York governor William Cosby, was brought up on charges of seditious libel, and acquitted based on an argument inspired by Ben Franklin that it wasn't libel because the material published was true.
How did the idea freedom of the press get codified?
What is freedom of the press is in the Bill of Rights in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom . . . of the press.
What paper did Horace Greeley start and what was his great cause?
What are the New York Tribune, a Penny Paper, and a crusade against slavery.
What was Benjamin Franklin’s groundbreaking publication about the philosophy of journalism, and what was its key idea?
What are his “Apology for Printers,” which appeared in his Pennsylvania Gazette, which said the public should let truth and error have “fair play,” and the printer should not take sides but provided a forum for the disputants and be confident in the power of truth to win out in the end.
What was William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper and what did he fight for?
What were The Liberator and the abolition of slavery?