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?