Date post: | 26-Jun-2015 |
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History of Journalism
Heroes and Legends
Birth of Journalism
Ancient times – tablets
Caesar – handwritten
Johann Gutenberg (1440)
Early American Newspapers
Benjamin Harris – Publick Occerences (1690)
Benjamin Franklin – Pennsylvania Gazette (1754)
News in the 1800s
Emergence of the penny press
Innovations in printing
Rise of modern news room
Marketing to the Masses
1 cent meant more affordable
Independent of political parties
Local news, crime coverage, human interest stories
Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst vs Joseph Pulitzer
Loud headlines
Sensational stories
Lavish pictures (often faked)
Spanish-American War (1898)
Inciting War
The 1900s
Start of the decline of newspaper
Radio (1920)
TV (post 1942)
Newspaper becomes more fact based
Big facts first, less important later in story
Today and Beyond
If I were to ask you to go home and come back tomorrow with a news story, where would you look first?
How many of you get the paper delivered to your house?
Technology
Online journalism
Every major paper has an online version
Less ads in papers = Less money to print
What is the best way to get money to post online?