The Birth of Journalism (1400–1799)
What invention allowed for journalistic writings to be published more easily?
The invention and widespread introduction of the printing press.
Yellow journalism featured these kinds of stories
What are sensationalized stories?
To make their papers stand out on newsstands, early 1900's publishers pioneered this colorful, high-impact font color for breaking news headlines.
What is red? (Often called "red-letter" editions or "fudge" headlines.)
This historic journalism format went to the wayside in favor of the internet.
What is Print Media?
How did the introduction of the Penny Press in the 1830s fundamentally change the business model of American newspapers?
What was the primary media of journalism from 1400-1799?
Broadsheets and Pamphlets
Adolph Ochs, the architect of objective journalism, had took ownership over this newspaper.
Driven by the competitive "Yellow Journalis," wars, the New York Journal and New York Journal and New York World both employed an artist to draw this bald, nightshirt-wearing cartoon character.
Who is the Yellow Kid.
This Australian media mogul inspired the TV show Succession.
Who is Rupert Murdoch?
How did the fierce circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal help drive the United States toward the Spanish-American War in 1898?
When were the first newspapers popularized?
The early 1600s
Sensational and largely innacurate newspaper reports on the cruelty of Spanish rule in Cuba may have helped spark this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Theodore Roosevelt coined the term "muckraker" in 1906, comparing investigative jouirnalists to a character who only looks down int his 1678 John Bunyan allegory.
What is The Pilgrim's Progress?
Billionaire Jeff Bezos bought this prominent newspaper for $250 million in 2013.
What is the Washington Post?
His 1735 acquittal on charges of seditious libel established the vital legal principle in colonial America that truth is an absolute defense against libel.
Who was Joseph Peter Zanger
What happened to the first multiple page newspaper in the American colonies? Published by Benjamin Harris in Boston in 1690, Publick Occurences Both Forreign and Domestick
It was banned by colonial officials because they critisized the British military alliances and because they did not have a printing license.
In the 1830s, newspapers like the New York Sun revolutionized the industry by selling issues for this specific, low price, making news accessible to the working class for the first time.
What is a penny press?
In 1903, this legendary publisher established the first formal journalism school curriculum, but Columbia University Delayed opening it until after his death.
Joseph Pulitzer
This modern term for yellow journalism became more common with the rise of social media.
What is Fake News?
Founded in 1721 by James Franklin, this colonial newspaper is famous for being the publication where a young Benjamin Franklin secretly wrote a series of satirical letters under the pen name "Silence Dogood."
What was The New-England Courant
The 1735 trial of the German-American printer John Peter Zenger established a crucial precedent for the freedom of press in colonial America. What legal argument did his attorney, Andrew Hamilton, successfully use?
If the printed statements about a public official were true, they could not be legally classified as seditious libel.
In the 1890s, this daring female journalist feigned insanity to expose asylum conditions and later traveled around the world in just 72 days.
To circumvent Western Union telegraph monopolies and cut costs, a cooperative of American newspapers successfully petitioned Congress in 1900 to incorporate this modern news agency.
What is the Associated Press (AP) ?
This American newspaper had the most subscribers in 2025.
What is the New York Times?
This pioneering muckraker published a blistering 19-part investigative exposé on the Standard Oil Company in McClure's Magazine (1902–1904), which ultimately contributed to the Supreme Court's 1911 antitrust breakup of the monopoly.
Who was Ida Tarbell