Chapter 4 Flashcards
Acta Diurna
actions of the day, Rome’s newspaper during Caesar’s time
Corantos
one page news sheets about specific events
Nathaniel Butter, Thomas Archer, and Nicholas Bourne
began printing their own occasional news sheets
diurnals
daily newspaper
Oxford Gazette
the official voice of the Crown, eventually renamed the London Gazette
broadsides/ broadsheets
single-sheet announcements or accounts of events imported from England
Benjamin Harris printed his own broadside
Public Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick
John Campbell
created Boston Newsletter, it survived until the revolution and was about foreign news, government announcements
Who wrote the New- England Courant
James Franklin
Who was jailed for printing scandalous libels against the government
James Franklin
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Benjamin Franklin established this newspaper
Peter Zenger
jailed for criticizing the colony’s royal governor
Bill of Rights
first 10 amendments, first amendment was freedom of speech and press
Freedom’s journal
first african american newspaper by John B. Russwurm and Rev. Sam Cornish
Fredrick Douglas
Ram’s Horn that challenged Benjamin Day’s Sun
penny press
one cent newspaper
The North Star
most influential to african americans BEFORE civil war- made slogan (Fredrick Douglas)
Chicago Defender
AFTER civil war (Fredrick Douglas)
Benjamin Day wrote
The New York Sun,
What was the first of the penny papers
The New York Sun
New York Morning Harold and New York Tribune
both penny papers, written by James Gorden Bennette and Horace Greeley
wire services
stem from the penny paper news, pull together to collect news, expanded scope of coverage
Joseph Pulitzer
brought the troubled New York World, YELLOW JOURNALISM
William Randolph Hearst
tried to use the yellow journalism technique for the San Francisco Examiner
yellow journalism
giant headlines covering sex, crime, disasters, etc, heavy illustrations
newspaper chains
papers in different cities across the country owned by a single company
Wall Street Journal
founded by Charles Dow and Edward Jones
USA today
nations newspaper
zoned editions
suburban or regional versions of the paper
New York Times
daily newspaper similar to time magazine
Newsday
the 11th largest paper in country
alternative press
alternative to traditional papers, LA and seattle Weekly
commuter papers
Washington Post’s Express and amNewYork
feature syndicates
collection of illustraters work, do not gather and distribute news
Joint Operating Agreement
apart of a newspaper prevention act, when a newspaper is failing and joins with another newspaper to help financially
firewall
barrier between newspapers’ editorial and advertising missions
Kansas City Star
online newspaper
paywall
making some content available to those that actually pay- the wall street journal and Newport Daily News
integrated audience reach
calculating the online and in person audience amounts
soft news vs. hard news
