the penny press
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The Penny Press. Before the Penny Press. Benjamin Day started the Sun , the first successful penny paper. James Gordon Bennett started the Herald , which would become the most successful paper, selling worldwide. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Penny Press
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Before the Penny Press
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Benjamin Day started the Sun, the first successful penny paper.
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James Gordon Bennett started the Herald, which would become the most successful paper, selling worldwide.
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Horace Greeley’s Tribune believed a paper should educate people as well as keep them informed.
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New York was the birthplace of the Penny Press. Newsboys bought the papers and resold them, their cries filling the New York Streets.
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The popularity of the Penny Press grew, and soon the sensational, cheap newspapers were in demand all over the country.
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The legacy of the Penny Press lives on in the use of advertising as a source of income, and in the informational, educational, and entertainment articles in today’s newspapers.
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