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Robert. S. Abbott

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Chicago Defender Newspaper most influential African American paper at time. Before and after WWI, reported on lynching. Mocked white press

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John Adams

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Believed press should present US in best possible way, Boston Patriot

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Samuel Adams

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The Independent Advertiser, Journal of Occurrences

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James Gordon Bennett

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Founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald

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Nellie Bly

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She was a ground-breaking reporter known for a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World

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Mathew Brady

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one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.

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Louis Daguerre

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recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography

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Frederick Douglass

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The North Star

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Horace Greeley

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Editor of the New-York Tribune

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William Lloyd Garrison

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American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War

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Johannes Guttenberg

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Printing Press

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Benjamin Franklin

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Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British policies. He became wealthy publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and The Pennsylvania Gazette

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James Franklin

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Published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspaper.

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Benjamin Harris

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He published the New England Primer, the first textbook in British America, and edited the first multi-page newspaper there, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick

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William Randolph Hearst

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The San Francisco Examiner, acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World that led to the creation of yellow journalism—sensationalized stories of dubious veracity, \"More Truth Than Poetry\" column at the Hearst-owned New York Evening Journal

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Charles Lindbergh

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John Milton

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Truth outweighs false

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Edward R. Murrow

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produced a series of reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy, This is London, Hear It Now moved to television and was re-christened See It Now

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Thomas Nast

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Father of the American Cartoon, He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall political machine

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Adolph Ochs

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The Chattanooga Times publisher. He was one of the founders of the Southern Associated Press, bought The New York Times, focus on objective journalism, in a time when newspapers were openly and highly partisan

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Thomas Paine

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Alicia Patterson

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founder and editor of Newsday

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Henry Jarvis Raymond

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co-founder of The New York Times, the first issue of the Times Raymond announced his purpose to write in temperate and measured language and to get into a passion as rarely as possible

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Upton Sinclair

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The Jungle, muckraking

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Ruth Snyder

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Snyder became the first woman executed in Sing Sing

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Sons of Liberty

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The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight the abuses of taxation by the British government. They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party

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Lincoln Steffens

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Muckraker, New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities

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Ida Tarbell

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The History of the Standard Oil Company

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Boss Tweed

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Ida B. Wells

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African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States

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John Peter Zenger

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printed The New York Weekly Journal, enger printed copies of a newspaper in New York to voice his disagreement with the actions of newly appointed colonial governor William Cosby, establish the precedent that a statement, even if defamatory, is not libelous if it can be proved, thus affirming freedom of the press in America

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The Aurora

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Philadelphia from 1794 to 1824. The paper was founded by Benjamin Franklin Bache, who served as editor

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Boston Gazette

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Contributors included: Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Phyllis Wheatley. Ben Franklin

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Corantos

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Corantos were early informational broadsheets, precursors to newspapers

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Newsday

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Founded by Alicia Patterson

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The New England Courant

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one of the first American newspapers, was founded in Boston by James Franklin. ames' younger brother, Benjamin Franklin, started in the newspaper as a typesetter, and later wrote more than a dozen articles under the pen name of Silence Dogood

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The New York Herald

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published by James Gordon Bennett, Sr, Bennett stated that the function of a newspaper \"is not to instruct but to startle

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The New York Times

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Founded as the \"New-York Daily Times\" by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond, then a Whig Party member and later second chairman of the newly organized Republican Party National Committee, and former banker George Jones.

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The New York Tribune

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Horace Greeley, Between 1842 and 1866, the newspaper bore the name New-York Daily Tribune. Dominant Whig Party and then Republican newspaper in the U.S. Thrived on sensationalism

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The Village Voice

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alternative weeklies, launched by Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer

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The East Village Other

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American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, Published by Walter Bowar

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The New York Daily News

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was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format, Joseph Medill Patterson

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The Pennsylvania Gazette

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published in 1728 by Samuel Keimer, Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith bought the paper and shortened its name, Franklin not only printed the paper but also often contributed pieces to the paper under aliases. His newspaper soon became the most successful in the colonies.

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Publick Occurrences

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First multi-page newspaper published in the Americas. Before then, single-page newspapers, called broadsides, were published. The first edition was published in Boston, intended to be published monthly, \"or, if any Glut of Occurrences happen, oftener.\" It was printed by American Richard Pierce of Boston, and it was edited by Benjamin Harris

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Erie Canal

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Democratic-Republican Party

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first \"Republican Party\" (as it called itself at the time), also known as the Jeffersonian Republicans.

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Federalist Party

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first American political party, The Federalist policies called for a national bank, tariffs, and good relations with Britain. John Adams; although George Washington

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