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The nameplate (American English) or masthead (British English) [1] [2] of a newspaper or periodical is its designed title as it appears on the front page or cover. [3] Another very common term for it in the newspaper industry is "the flag". It is part of the publication's branding, with a specific font and, usually, color.
The Pennsylvania Journal was an American weekly newspaper published by William Bradford during the 18th century. The first edition of The Pennsylvania Journal appeared in December 1742. A famous contributor was Thomas Paine , who published his first-ever journalism in the Journal in 1775 and contributed a series of pamphleteering essays ...
While in England, Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette had its publication suspended on October 31, 1765, in protest of the Stamp Act, after which Franklin's partner, David Hall, began printing the paper on un-stamped paper, without the masthead, so as to avoid any prosecution. [136]
A typical rural newspaper provided its readers with a substantial source of national and international news and political commentary, typically reprinted from metropolitan newspapers. Higher income men paid for their subscriptions; others listened to a reading of the political news at a local store or tavern.
Masthead (American publishing), details of the owners, publisher, contributors etc. of a newspaper or periodical (UK: "publisher's imprint") Masthead (British publishing), the banner name on the front page of a newspaper or periodical (US: "nameplate") Masthead Maine, formerly a network of newspapers in Maine
The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp.Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ("immediatism").
In American usage, a publication's masthead is a printed list, published in a fixed position in each edition, of its owners, departments, officers, contributors and address details, [1] [2] which in British English usage is known as imprint. [3] Flannel panel is a humorous term for a magazine masthead panel.
It was a weekly newspaper established by William Brooker, who was just appointed Postmaster of Boston, with its first issue released on December 21, 1719. [1] The Boston Gazette is widely considered the most influential newspaper in early American history, especially in the years leading up to and into the American Revolution.