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London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the Titanic disaster, April 16, 1912. A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were ...
Newspaper industry lore suggests that the first paperboy, hired in 1833, was 10-year-old Barney Flaherty who was hired after seeing an advertisement in the Sun News and signing up for the job. [ 1 ] The duties of a paperboy varied by distributor, [ 2 ] but usually included counting and separating papers, rolling papers and inserting them in ...
The newsboys' strike of 1899 was a U.S. youth-led campaign to facilitate change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst's newspapers compensated their force of newsboys or newspaper hawkers.
(Reuters) - The Washington Post said on Tuesday it would lay off about 4% of its workforce or less than 100 employees in a bid to cut costs, as the storied newspaper grapples with growing losses.
GateHouse publishes 14 daily newspapers and seven weeklies in Kansas, and several shopper publications (not listed) in most of its newspaper markets: [5] Wichita area and central Kansas Butler County Times-Gazette [ 59 ] of El Dorado, Kansas , a merger of the former Augusta Gazette and El Dorado Times, published twice weekly.
Rome, Milan, and Venice are full of history, stylish people, and fantastic shopping. But my favorite trips have been to the country's southern parts, from Naples through the Amalfi Coast .
This is a list of major newspapers serving cities in the United States with populations over 100,000. Abilene, Texas. Abilene Reporter-News; Akron, Ohio. Akron Beacon ...
Most weekly newspapers follow a similar format as daily newspapers (i.e., news, sports, family news, obituaries). However, the primary focus is on news from the publication's coverage area. The publication date of weekly newspapers varies, but usually they come out in the middle of the week (e.g., Wednesday or Thursday).