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NEWSPAPER TIMELINE
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NEWSPAPER TIMELINE
Today's Preferences
A Tabloid at the Supper Table?
Factual and Attainable News
The Predecessor
Before the invention of newspapers, in the early 1500’s, religious writings were mass published in broadsheet form within Europe.
By the 1530’s, million of these religious broadsheets were in circulation.
In the 1830’s average American’s were able to get their news through newspapers.
Benjamin Day was the first to bring this type of news to the masses through the paper The New York Sun.
With the invention of the Penny press, newspapers suddenly became much more affordable (Only 1 or 2 cents), and had news concerning people of average means.
Tabloids entered the market in the very early 1900’s, but then they weren't sensationalized salacious news.
Instead were condensed versions of the weekly news.
Tabloids as we know them now were referred to as “Yellow Journalism” back then, such articles were written to gain a broader audience and increase sales, and were the beginning of ethically challenged reporting.
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Today
1500's
Today's 4 Major Types of Newspapers:
Expansion of the Medium
In the Beginning
National Papers
Metropolitan Papers
Alternative Newspapers
Community Papers
These feature articles based on the cities they are published in.
Examples:
The Washington Post
The New York Times
These papers attempt to tell news that affects everyone in the US.
Examples:
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
These feature articles based on the towns they are published in.
Examples:
Rancho Cordova Grapevine Independent
Folsom Telegraph
Whose articles feature News about a specific demographic, or subculture.
Example:
The SN&R
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s newspapers added:
- Comic strips (the first was Ben Franklin’s “Join or Die” cartoon)
- Advice columns
- and Stories.
All geared towards reaching a larger audience.
The first English newspaper was named Curanto and was printed in 1618.
Shortly after, in 1622, Britain published a newspaper that was distributed through "coffeehouses" which was more opinion than news.
Early American newspapers (also known as “Broadsheet papers”) were published by political parties, for the very rich, and were also more opinion than news.