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Penny press newspapers were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the middle of the 19th century. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
The first penny press papers
In 1833, publisher Benjamin Day introduced the The New York Sun, the first penny press newspaper. Day discovered that he could broaden the paper's readership by lowering its price to a penny and selling it on the streets. Most newspapers at the time cost six cents and were distributed through subscriptions. The Sun appealed to a wider audience, using a simpler, more direct style, vivid language, and human interest stories.[1] Year 1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Benjamin Henry Day, (1810 – 1889) was a U.S. illustrator and printer. ...
Front page of the New York Sun, November 26, 1834 For the modern newspaper of the same name, see The New York Sun. ...
A human interest story is a type of news story that is concerned with the activities of a few named people. ...
James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald added another dimension to penny press newspapers, now common in journalistic practice. Whereas newspapers generally relied on documents as sources, Bennett introduced the practices of observation and interviewing to provide the stories with more vivid details.[2] James Gordon Bennett James Gordon Bennett (1 September 1795 in Keith, Moray, Scotland - 1 June 1872), was the founder and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the History of American newspapers. ...
The New York Herald was a large distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between May 6, 1835 and 1924. ...
Political factors Political and demographic changes were also significant. Much of the success of the newspaper in the early United States owes itself to the attitude of the "founding fathers" toward the press. Many of them saw the free press as one of the most essential elements in maintaining the liberty and social equality of citizens. Thomas Jefferson said he considered the free press as even more important than the government itself: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate any moment to prefer the latter." It was because of his attitude that freedom of the press gains mention in the First Amendment to the Constitution, and though early politicians, including Jefferson, occasionally made attempts to rein in the press, newspapers flourished in the new nation. In the modern age, the free press has taken on multiple meanings. ...
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Social equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect, minimally at least in voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and property rights. ...
Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.–4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ...
Freedom of the Press (or Press Freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ...
The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ...
However, the penny press was originally apolitical both in content and in attitude. As Michael Schudson describes in Discovering the News, the Sun once replaced their congressional news section with this statement: "The proceedings of Congress thus far, would not interest our readers." The major social-political changes brought on by the development of the penny press were themselves helped by the penny press' focus on working-class people and their interests. Thus an apolitical attitude was, ironically, a political factor influencing the advancement of the penny press. Michael Schudson is an American academic sociologist working in the fields of journalism and its history, and public culture. ...
Demographic factors Soon after Benjamin Day's New York Sun began selling papers for a nickel, James Gordon Bennett, Sr. started the New York Herald in 1835, and Horace Greeley started the New York Tribune in 1841. Three daily penny press papers in one city were possible because the recent urbanization in industrialized New England had swollen the population of New York City and surrounding cities. By the 1930s, the general population had become both sufficiently localized and sufficiently literate that a penny press newspaper could have a weekly circulation of 50,000. For comparison, the influential Spectator of a little over a century earlier had a maximum circulation per issue of about 4,000. James Gordon Bennett James Gordon Bennett (1 September 1795 in Keith, Moray, Scotland - 1 June 1872), was the founder and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the History of American newspapers. ...
| Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician. ...
The New York Tribune building - today the site of Pace Universitys building complex of One Pace Plaza in New York City The New York Tribune was established by Horace Greeley in 1841 and was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States. ...
1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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The Spectator was a daily publication of 1711–12, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England. ...
References - ^ Bird, S. Elizabeth. For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992: 12-17.
- ^ Francke, Warren T. "Sensationalism and the Development of Reporting in the Nineteenth Century: The Broom Sweeps Sensory Details." Paper presented at Conference on Sensationalism and the Media (Ann Arbor, Mich.), 1986.
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