newspapers

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actions of the day

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Acta Diurna

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newspaper of rome

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acta diurna

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one-page news sheets about specific events

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corantos

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true forerunners of our daily newspaper

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diurnals

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by the 1660s the word _____ entered the english language

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newspaper

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the official voice of the crown

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Oxford Gazette

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oxford gazette founded in 1665 and later renamed to?

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London Gazette

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boston bookseller/printer (and coffeehouse owner) printed his own broadside

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Benjamin Harris

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what broadside did benjamin franklin print which lasted only one day

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publick occurences both foreign and domestick

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what survived until the revolution

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1704 boston news-letter

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boston postmaster

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john campbell

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how did boston news-letter survive

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because of government subsidies

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the only one publishing without authority

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james franklin’s new-england courant

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franklin was jailed for?

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printing “scandalous libels”

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benjamin published america’s first political cartoon in his pennsylvania gazette in 1754

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join or die

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benjamin franklinin 1729 revived and renamed the

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pennsylvania gazette

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under the new constitution in 1970, the first amendments to the constitution is called

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the bill of rights

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congress passed a group of four laws known collectively as

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the alien and sedition acts

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this made illegal writing, publishing, or printing “any false scandalous and malicious writing” about the president, congress, or federal government

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the sedition acts

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first penny papers

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benjamin day’s new york sun

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motto of the new york sun

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the sun shines for all

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owned by james gordon bennet

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new york morning herald

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an important penny paper by horace greely

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new york tribune

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first african american newspaper

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freedom’s journal

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who published freedom's journal

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john b. russwurm and reverend samuel cornish

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most influential african american newspaper after the civil war

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chicago defender

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the defender earned a circulation of more than

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230,000

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abbot declared what in may 15, 1917

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the great northern drive

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native americans found early voice in papers such as

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cherokee phoenix in 1828 & cherokee rose bud

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in 1883 hungarian immigrant joseph pulitzer bought the troubled

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new york world

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a study in excess- sensational sex, crime, and disaster news; giant headlines; heavy use of illustrations; reliance on cartoons and color

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yellow journalism

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where did yellow journalism draw its name from

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yellow kid, a popular cartoon character

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what did many yellow paper used as a call to war with spain, hoping that war coverage would build circulation

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the sinking of maine

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how many newspapers were there in 1910

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2,600 daily papers in the united states

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what did the american society of newspaper editors issue in 1923

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canons of journalism and statement of principles

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in one year, how many newspapers went out of business

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105 newspapers

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how many newspapers are operating in the us today

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8,000

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what percentage of dailies are operating today

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14%

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what percentage of weeklies and semiweeklies are operating today

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weeklies (77%), semiweeklies (8%)

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readers who did not originally purchase the paper

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pass-along readership

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what are the types of newspapers

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- national daily newspapers - large metropolitan dailies - suburban and small-town dailies - weeklies and semiweeklies - the ethnic press - the alternative press

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a special large metropolitan daily

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new york times

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the 12th largest paper in the country

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long island's newsday

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how many us cities are served by at least one spanish-language publication

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130 us cities

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america's first alternative weekly

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the village voice

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newspapers remain a powerful ad medium because they are the most ________

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local mass medium

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trends and convergence in newspaper publishing

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- loss of competition - hypercommercialism - convergence - evolution of newspaper readership