Newspaper History

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Parenting and CD II
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Who is Johann Gutenberg?
I invented the first moveable type in the 1400s

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What is the New York Herald?
The first real prototype of modern newspapers.
Owned by James Gordon Bennett.

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What is the stamp act?
An act passed in 1765 that taxed all legal
documents, official papers, books and newspapers

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What is a chain?
Newspaper term used to describe companies that
own more than one paper.

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Who was James Franklin?
I published the New England Courant in 1721
and was arrested due to its Controversial
content.

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What is the New York Sun?
The first newspaper in the U.S. to be sold for a
penny.

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What were the Dark Ages
A term used to describe the time from 1789-1808
when all newspapers supported either
Federalist or Democratic-Republican issues.

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What is the Yellow Kid?
The first continuous newspaper cartoon. It
showed events of the day in New York.

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Who is Benjamin H. Day?
I began the Penny Press movement in the 1830s.

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St Louis Post-Dispatch
The first Missouri newspaper owned by Joseph
Pulitzer

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What is the Penny Press
A movement where newspapers were sold for a
penny each by men and boys on the streets.

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Who were Hearst and Pulitzer?
The most famous duel in all of newspaper
history was between these two publishers.

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Who was Joseph Pulitzer
I was the world famous publisher of the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.

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What is the New York Journal?
William Randolph Hearst put out the first
edition of this New York paper in 1895

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What is Yellow Journalism?
The tendency of newspapers to try and outdo each
other by printing sensational stories and
headlines.

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What is jingoism?
Attitudes of boastful, warlike patriotism. First
appeared in the New York World and New York
Journal

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Who is Benjamin Harris?
I published the first Newspaper in America in
1690

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What is the New York Times
This newspaper set standards by which all other
papers are measuredby presenting the news
truthfully and without bias.

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What are broadsides?
Single sheets of news attached to coffeehouse
walls in America in the the 1600s

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What is a linotype?
The first automatically cast newspaper
machine created the end of hand composition.

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Answers
Answers People Publicat. Terms Mix Up
100 Gutenberg NY Herald Stamp Act Chain
200 James Franklin NY Sun Dark Ages Yellow Kid
300 Benjamin Day St. Louis Post Dispatch Penny Press Hearst and Pulitzer
400 Joseph Pulitzer NY Journal Yellow Journalism Jingoism
500 Benjamin Harris NY Times Broadsides Linotype