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[48] [49] [50] [b] Under Franklin The Gazette became the most successful newspaper in the colonies. [52] On December 28, 1732, through the Gazette Franklin announced that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard, (better known as Poor Richard's Alamanack) by Richard Saunders, Philomath. The almanack proved to be a ...
American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003) Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States. (2014). ISBN 978-1442225930; McKerns, Joseph P., ed. Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism. (1989) Marzolf, Marion. Up From the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists. (1977)
In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help. Pages in category "Newspapers of colonial America" The following 16 pages are in this ...
Religious enthusiasm and the great demand for bibles and other religious works is largely what promoted the first printing efforts in the American colonies. Before and during the American Revolution colonial printers were also actively publishing newspapers and pamphlets expressing the strong sentiment against British colonial policy and taxation.
Newspaper editor in Boston; founded the first regularly published newspaper in the British colonies in America, The Boston News-Letter Mathew Carey 1760–1839 Irish-born American publisher and economist from Philadelphia, founder of The Pennsylvania Herald , with the help of Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette
The National Digital Newspaper Program is a joint project between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create and maintain a publicly available, online digital archive of historically significant newspapers published in the United States between 1836 and 1922. Additionally, the program will make available ...
The three-page newspaper did not contain any criticism on the new licensing law for printing newspapers, or make any issues about colonial government. Instead it appealed to and informed its readers about the various current issues, i.e. the smallpox outbreak, the successful harvest produced by the "Christianized" Indians, a murder, the ...
James Franklin (February 4, 1697 in Boston – February 4, 1735 in Newport, Rhode Island) was an early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the American colonies. Franklin published the New England Courant , one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short lived Rhode Island ...