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Germans were the first non-English speakers to publish newspapers in the U.S., and by 1890, over 1,000 German-language newspapers were being published in the United States. [1] The first German language paper was Die Philadelphische Zeitung, published by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia beginning in 1732; it failed after a year. [1]
German American journalism includes newspapers, magazines, and the newer media, with coverage of the reporters, editors, commentators, producers and other key personnel. The German Americans were thoroughly assimilated by the 1920s, and German language publications one by one closed down for lack of readers.
Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the second largest German-language newspaper in the United States and the newspaper with the second-largest circulation in the city of Chicago after the Chicago Tribune; Anzeiger des Westens, the German-language daily paper in St. Louis founded one year later, that became the largest newspaper of any language in the state
Category: German-language newspapers published in the United States by state. 1 language. ... German-language newspapers published in New York (state) (7 P)
Pages in category "German-language newspapers published in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Due to the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 1917, the Journal and other German-language newspapers in the United States had to provide exact English translations of all news and editorial matters related to the war to the local postmaster. Furthermore, public sentiment for German Americans was at an all-time low.
The Anzeiger des Westens (literally "Gazette of the West") was the first German-language newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and, along with the Westliche Post and the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, one of the three most successful German-language papers in the Midwestern United States serving the German-American population with news and features.
New Yorker Volkszeitung was the longest-running German language daily labor newspaper in the United States of America, established in 1878 and suspending publication in October 1932. At the time of its demise during the Great Depression the Volkszeitung was the only German-language daily in the United States and one of the oldest radical left ...