Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Print Media History


Notice how the paper comes out automatically folded. 
  •  America's first continuously-published newspaper, the Boston News-Letter, published its first issue on April 24, 1704. 
  • In the 1850's, the first "pictorial" weekly newspapers emerged; they featured for the first time extensive illustrations of events in the news, as woodcut engravings made from correspondents' sketches or taken from that new invention, the photograph. 
  • 1856: Machines now mechanically fold newspapers.
  • In 1885, newspapers began to be delivered daily by train.
    In the 1890s, 
    Joseph Pulitzer coined the term "yellow journalism"now known as a comic strip.
  • TIME Magazine was first published on March 3, 1923 as a newsmagazine which summarized and organized the news so that "busy men" could stay informed. 

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