Blogs Are Old News: A Brief History of American Journalism – Part One

October 22, 2014 · by Eve Shulmister | in Beyond Books | tagged Benjamin Franklin and Newspapers, Colonial Newspaper, Colonial Pamphleteers and Thomas Paine, Colonial Printer Publishers, Fact Checking, Fourth Estate, Hearst vs. Pulitzer, History of Journalism, History of Newspaper, Muckraking Journalism, National Public Radio, Newspaper Reporting, Objective Reporting, Remember the Maine, Yellow Journalism | 6 Comments

Five years ago, when I taught Journalism, my syllabus was set. We began with a brief discussion of colonial gazettes, then focused on objective news. Until recently I hadn’t connected those two dots – how American news writing evolved from opinionated essays to what is now considered fair and accurate reporting. This connection turns out […]