origin of journalism

3000 B.C. +: Early Innovations

• 1500 B.C.- Semites devise the alphabet.
• 1000 B.C.- Egyptian papyrus early form of paper.
• 60 B.C.- Acta Diurna [Day's Event], forerunner of the newspaper.
• 1500s- Printing boks and pamphlets increases.

1600-1800

• 1609- first newspaper in Europe.
• 1690- Ben Harris prints first Colonial newspaper in Boston.
• 1731- Ben Franklin founds first public library.
• 1741- Andrew Bradford prints American Magazine.

1800-1900 Telegraph Era

• 1821- National Magazine [The Saturday Evening Post]
• 1837- First African American newspaper [Freedom's Journal]
• 1865- Abraham Lincoln's assassination is reported by telegraph and print

Early 1900s

• 1932- Walt Disney produces first full color movie.
• 1941- Pearl Harbor attack is reported by radio.
• 1927- The Jazz Singer, first talkie.
• 1940- Audiotape is developed in Germany.
• 1947- CBS and NBC begin first newscast.

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