1.+Newspapers

**Contents** 1. Periods in the history of American newspapers  2. The first American newspapers  3. Newspaper personalities  4. Categories of American newspapers  4.1. African-American newspapers  5. List of top newspapers in the USA  5.1. The four most influential newspapers  See also  References

**Periods in the history of American newspapers**
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**The first American newspapers**
**Task:** Choose one of the newspapers and find information about it, using the Internet or other information sources.

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**Newspaper personalities**
<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">These are the names of the Americans who contributed much to the development of American journalism and press.

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 * = **Benjamin Franklin** ||= **Joseph Pulitzer** ||= **Nellie Bly** ||= **Dorothy Day** ||

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;">** African American newspapers ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">African American newspapers are those [|newspapers] in the [|United States] that seek readers primarily of [|African American] descent. These newspapers came into existence in 1827 when [|Samuel Cornish] and [|John Brown Russwurm] started the first African-American periodical called [|Freedom's Journal]. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">In the late 19th century the main reason that the papers were created was for economic stability, and not for uplifiting. However, African Americans found both through African American Papers that were aspiring to fight oppression. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Many Black newspapers that began publishing in the 60's, 70's, and 80's went out of business because they could not attract enough advertising and economic decline. As of 2002, 2000 Black newspapers remained. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">As of 2010 however, there has been a resurgence of online African American news organizations, most notably [|Black News], [|The Grio] , and [|Black Voices]. With the decline of print media and proliferation of internet access, more and more black news websites are popping up every day.

<span class="mw-headline" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Top 25 by circulation
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">This is a list of the 25 U.S. newspapers with the largest daily circulation. These figures were compiled by the [|Audit Bureau of Circulations] for the six months ending September 2010, and represent each paper's highest circulation of the week, typically the Sunday edition. When two papers in a city produce a combined edition under a [|joint operating agreement], they are listed side-by-side. > //[|Contra Costa Times]/// > //[|Oakland Tribune]// > //[|Philadelphia Daily News]//
 * 1) //[|The Wall Street Journal]//
 * 2) //[|USA Today]//
 * 3) //[|The New York Times]//
 * 4) //[|Los Angeles Times]//
 * 5) //[|The Washington Post]//
 * 6) //[|Daily News]// (New York)
 * 7) //[|New York Post]//
 * 8) //[|San Jose Mercury News]///
 * 1) //[|Chicago Tribune]//
 * 2) //[|Houston Chronicle]//
 * 3) //[|The Philadelphia Inquirer]///
 * 1) //[|Newsday]//
 * 2) //[|The Denver Post]//
 * 3) //[|The Arizona Republic]//
 * 4) //[|Star Tribune]// (Minneapolis)
 * 5) //[|The Dallas Morning News]//
 * 6) //[|The Plain Dealer]// (Cleveland)
 * 7) //[|The Seattle Times]//
 * 8) //[|Chicago Sun-Times]//
 * 9) //[|Detroit Free Press]//
 * 10) //[|St. Petersburg Times]//
 * 11) //[|The Oregonian]//
 * 12) //[|The San Diego Union-Tribune]//
 * 13) //[|San Francisco Chronicle]//
 * 14) //[|The Star-Ledger]// (Newark)

Longest running

 * //[|The New Hampshire Gazette]// (founded 1756)
 * //[|The Hartford Courant]// (1764 - the oldest daily)
 * //[|The Augusta Chronicle]// (1785)
 * //[|Daily Hampshire Gazette]// (1786)
 * //[|Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]// (1786)
 * //[|The Berkshire Eagle]// (1789)
 * //[|The Recorder]// (1792)
 * //[|Rutland Herald]// (1794)
 * //[|Norwich Bulletin]// (1796)
 * //[|The Keene Sentinel]// (1799)
 * //[|New York Post]// (1801)
 * //[|The Post and Courier]// (1803)
 * //[|The Post-Standard]// (1829)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**The four most influential newspapers** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">The largest newspapers (by circulation) in the United States are //[|USA Today]//, the //[|Wall Street Journal]//, the //[|New York Times]// and the //[|Los Angeles Times]//. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Group work Task:** Create a poster about the four most influential newspapers.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">See also **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">References **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Extra, extra, read all about it: http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Vance/...press.html
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">//Periods in the history of American newspapers are taken from: Dominick, J.R. (1999). The Dynamics of Mass Communication. – 6th ed., Boston: McGraw-Hill, pp.86-98;//
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">//Campbell, R. (2004). Media and culture: an Introduction to mass communication. 4th ed., New York: Bedford/St.Martin’s, excerpted from pp.265-279//