Newspaper Timeline

Timeline

• 1690: The first U.S. newspaper, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, appears.
• 1704: The first regularly published newspaper in the United States, The Boston News-Letter, begins.

Timeline

• 1765: Britain passes The Stamp Act.
• 1833: Benjamin Day’s The New York Sun sold newspapers for one penny rather than six cents.
• 1896: Adolph Simon Ochs buys The New York Times.
• 1898: Hearst’s Journal and Pulitzer’s World help to create intervention in the Spanish-American War.

Timeline

• 1905: Robert Sengstacke Abbott starts the Chicago Defender.
• 1928: The New York Daily News secretly photographs the execution of Ruth Snyder, a key event in jazz journalism.
• 1982: USA Today begins operation.
• 1999: The Orem (Utah) County Journal begins the first online-only, daily news publication.