The Birth of Journalism
Journalism in the 1800s
Journalism in the 1900s
Journalism in the 2000s
Random Journalism History
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Amendment protecting freedom of speech and press 

The first amendment

100

A style of reporting using exaggerated headlines, unverified claims, and partisan agendas.

Yellow journalism

100

Awards outstanding journalism works

Pulitzer prize

100

Online encyclopedia with 7.24 million articles first launched in 2001 

Wikipedia

100

Faked mental illness to expose horrific conditions inside an asylum

Nellie Bly

200

The first movable-type printing press

Gutenberg Press

200

19th-century mass-market newspapers sold for one cent

The Penny Press

200

The association behind the first ap stylebook  

Associated Press news cooperative

200

Unethical journalist for the New York Times

Jayson Blair

200

First European newspaper

Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien

300

The first american newspaper

Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick

300

Invention that lead to the growth of journalism through easy communication 

Telegraph

300

Unethical journalist for the New Republic 

Stephen Glass

300

The collection, reporting, and sharing of news and information by ordinary people rather than professional journalists

Citizen journalism


300

Widely called the most trusted man in America

Walter Cronkite

400

Published the very first multi-page newspaper in the Americas

Benjamin Harris

400

Now one of the best-known newspapers in the world, was founded in 1851 by George Jones and Henry Raymond

The New York Times

400

First online encyclopedia 

Encarta

400

Report alleged that George W. Bush received preferential treatment and avoided duties with the help of influential figures

Dan Rather's 2004 report

400

Used Roman leaders used to share public speeches and important daily events

 The Acta Diurna