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Penny Press
Benjamin Day's NY Sun Sep. 3, 1833 - 1-cent by newsboys, 4 pp., 10 x 11 in.
- shift away from political partisanship to human interest and variety
- 8000 by 1834, "Help Wanted" popular with unemployed, ads on back page
- "moon hoax" by Richard Adams Locke tripled circulation - life on the moon
- sold to Moses Y. Beach 1837 - new press 22,000 sheets 14x20 in. per hour
James Gordon Bennett's NY Herald May 6, 1835 - 77,000 by 1860 - largest in U.S.
- "Money Market" column emph. conspiracy of Wall St. speculators
- more gossip & scandal, exaggeration & sensationalism, slang
- Ellen Jewett murdered by Richard Robinson Apr. 10, 1836 - prurient - "Most Atrocious Murder" - detail of her room - 1st interview with brothel owner Rosina Townsend Apr. 16
- Manifest Destiny, police, debtor's prison, boxing, disasters, Jenny Lind 1850
- 1st letter from Europe by steamship July 17, 1838 - foreign bureau
- "By Express" beat mail from New Orleans 1840
- pigeon express by Daniel Craig's Boston Daily Mail
- any advertising printed if paid in advance by cash - Mdm Restell abortions
- "shirts" (linen), "legs" (limbs), "Petticoats P- P-P- there, you fastidious fools"
- Jane Croly's 1st syndicated column for women 1855 - "Jennie June"
Horace Greeley's NY Tribune 1841 - serious editorials - clipped by other editors
- "Great Moral Organ" - many "-isms" - 500 articles on Karl Marx in 1850's
- 3 necessities of spiritual life: "their Bible, their Shakespeare, their Tribune"
- sent Margaret Fuller to Rome as one of the first female foreign correspond.
- printed exact words of Brigham Young Aug. 20, 1859
Amos Kendall's Post Office - fastest growing federal agency
- 1836 special pony express to cities, 1847 first postage stamps
Bennett helped f. NY Harbor News Assoc. 1849 with 6 dailies to use telegraph
