1. History of Journalism

2. Heroes and Legends

3. Birth of Journalism
 Ancient times – tablets
 Caesar – handwritten
 Johann Gutenberg (1440)

4. Early American Newspapers
 Benjamin Harris – Publick
Occerences (1690)
 Benjamin Franklin –
Pennsylvania Gazette (1754)

5. News in the 1800s
 Emergence of the penny
press
 Innovations in printing
 Rise of modern news room

6. Marketing to the Masses
 1 cent meant more affordable
 Independent of political parties
 Local news, crime coverage, human interest stories

7. Yellow Journalism
 William Randolph Hearst vs Joseph Pulitzer
 Loud headlines
 Sensational stories
 Lavish pictures (often faked)
 Spanish-American War (1898)

8. Inciting War

9. 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

10. 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?

11. 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?