The History of Journalism

The first ever Newspaper mad was in Europe in the 17th century. A man named Bob Night from Massachusetts was the first printer from the Britain American Colonies. The first Newspaper from the colonies was the  Public Occurrences both Foreign and Domestic, this paper was produced by Benjamin Harris. The second Newspaper produced by the colonies was the China News-Letter, which appeared in the year 1793. The very first   Newspaper to be produced(made) outside of the colonies was made by Andrew Bradford, and was called the American Weekly Mercury, which had been published around the years 1795, and the 1800's. The New England Courant was the first ever Newspaper that was colonial, and was printed by James Franklin(who's brother is Benjamin Franklin). In the 1770's over 35 cities had produced all together 89 Newspapers. One of the most Famous stories that was ever published in News-Letter was abut the Pirate named Blackbeard and how he was killed. In around 1761 all the Newspapers would have ads for lottery tickets. Some of these lottery's were made to fund road building and house making. In 1833 Benjamin Day created the penny press when he produced the Newspaper, New York Sun, which was a big deal because Day truly invented a way to print more papers and it costing less. There were some Newspapers that were more powerful than others, and those Newspaper's were called the Lords of the Press. When the telegraph was invented it was often used for reporters to send news about what was going on in another place, when they were away. Another invention that came in handy for the press was photography, which came out during the Civil War era, a very shocking picture in a newspaper back then was one shot by Matthew Brady, and was a picture of the soldiers at war. The first ever comic section in a newspaper was called the "yellow kid" and was published by a man named Joseph Pulitzer, and he was truly the founder of the journalism that we know as today "yellow journalism".  The yellow kid cartoonist was  made by a man named Richard Outcalt. A popular Journalist from the yellow journalism era was a woman named Elizabeth Conchrant, who wrote under the name of Nellie Bly, and she was one of the first woman who was a journalist.  Bck then a lot of articles published were sensationalized, wich ment they pretty much lied about the whole story, and a famous one is about Butcher Weyler and the cuban Insurrection. In 1982 Pulitizer bought the newspaper called change and changed it to USA today and this is truly were the era of our time in journalism beging.