Penny press
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Penny press newspapers were cheap, tabloid-style newspapers mass-produced in the United States from the 1830s onwards. Mass production of inexpensive newspapers became possible following the shift fro
The NY Herald penny press
Benjamin H. Day, founder of the first penny press in the USA
The Sun, Benjamin Day's paper
Some reporters used the electric telegraph to share information.
Dime novel
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The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term
Penny press
…in combination with the speed of news delivery and thoroughness in the coverage of local news, forever changed the direction of American journalism. Dime novel Muckraker…
Cover of Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier by Edward S. Ellis (1860)
Cover of Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860)
The New Dime Novel Series introduced color covers but reprinted stories from the original series
Old Sleuth Library, 1888