MC 2000 Lecture Notes - The Boston Globe, Joseph Pulitzer, Chicago Sun-Times
Document Summary
Notable losses recently: rocky mountain news, seattle post-intelligencer, times- Boston globe was purchased by the owner of the red sox (keeping it local?) 20 years ago it was sold for . 1 billion. Washington post sold to the amazon. com creator jeff bezos. The premier place of newspapers in the news media. News is current or fresh information about an event or subject that is gathered, processed and disseminated via a medium to a significant number of people. Changes in the nature of the population: development of newspapers. Fear of insurrection causes control of colonial press. Crown appoints governors to control press: attempt to publish newspapers, population, commerce grow in colonies, market for shipping, trading news created, political tension over takes, control of trade, colonists publish criticism of crown. Publick occurrences both forreign and domestick benjamin harris: the first american newspaper- boston newsletter (1704) (does not meet all criteria of a newspaper) Dull, but published by authority european politics, shipping reports.
