Unit 2 Flashcards
Woodblock printing
First printed piece?
The Chinese developed a rudimentary way of typing and printing more than once.
The Diamond Sutra
Moveable type
Gutenberg press
Advance
Money they give you, normally ten thousand dollars
Royalties
Percentage of sales
Blockbuster syndrome
They got a safe bet and they know that the person will do well
Copyright
Your right to intellectual property
Google library project/project Gutenberg
Sought to take all books to public domain, digitalize them, and put them online for free
Elizabeth mallet
Daily courant, became first English daily newspaper, separated news from opinion ads
John Milton
Wrote aeropagitica. Response to church censorship of essay on divorce. Advocated free press.
Marketplace of ideas
Diversity of voices would lead to emergence of truth
Ben Harris
Publicly occurrences. Shut down after one issue because stories were critical of the crown.
John Campbell
Boston news letter. Postmaster. Published by authority.
James Franklin
Published without authority. Jailed and forbidden to publish.
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania gazette.
John Peter zenger
Critical of Cosby. Arrested and charged with sedition. Andrew Hamilton had him acquitted using truth as defense. First free press victory in a court of law before the first amendment.
First amendment
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of press
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Transition, colonial to revolutionary period
Crown still trying to control the press. Colonists became insistent of freedom of speech. Discussion of overthrow. Ben franklins join of die editorial cartoon, first thing to go viral. Newspaper become partisan in nature for the first time.
Ben day
New York sun. First daily penny paper. Used newsboys to get more people.
James Gordon Bennett
New York herald. First to print daily sports, business, and women’s news.
Frederick Douglass
North Star: abolitionist papers
Yellow journalism
Extreme sensationalism
Hearst
New York journal.
Pulitzer
New York world
Adolph ochs
The New York Times
Four main tenets of journalism
Fairness
Accuracy
Objectivity
Balance
Muckraking
Legislative reform in politics, big business, social justice
Nelly bly
Women’s rights
The first to use the term magazine
Gentleman’s magazine
William Bradford
American magazine
Thomas Paine
Pennsylvania magazine, urged revolution
Miscellanies
Book like with wide variety of content from different authors, cheap
Port folio and national magazine of richmond
Federalists and anti federalists
Circulation
Number of newspapers or magazines sold or distributed for free during a publishing cycle
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle toms cabin. Led to civil war.
Henry Luce
First news magazine: Time
Created life magazine featuring prominent photojournalism
Hugh Hefner
Made sex an industry. Play boy
Gloria Steinem
Founded ms.magazine, magazine for women by women.
Seven sisters
Group of magazines created by men for women
Three of the biggest ownership publishers.
Condé Nast
Hearst
Meredith Corp
