Philip Freneau
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Philip Morin Freneau was an American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and early American newspaper editor sometimes called the "Poet of the American Revolution". Through his Philadelphia-bas
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The history of American newspapers begins in the 17th century with the publication of the first colonial newspapers. American newspapers began as modest affairs—a sideline for printers. They became a
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…New York Daily Advertiser. Soon after, Madison and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson worked to get Freneau to move to Philadelphia in order to edit a partisan newspaper that would counter the Federalist newspaper The Gazette of the United States. Jefferson was criticized for hiring Freneau as a translator in the State…
A selection of American newspapers from 1885, with portraits of their publishers: Top row: The Union and Advertiser (William Purcell) - The Omaha Daily Bee (Edward Rosewater) - The Boston Daily Globe (Charles H. Taylor) - Boston Morning Journal (William Warland Clapp) - The Kansas City Times (Morrison Mumford) - The Pittsburgh Dispatch (M. O'Neill). Middle row: Albany Evening Journal (John A. Sleicher) - The Milwaukee Sentinel (Horace Rublee) - The Philadelphia Record (William M. Singerly) -
The New England Courant, the 7 August 1721 front page
Fanciful drawing of a rural general store . On the far left, a group of men listen to a reading of the weekly newspaper.
Lincoln spins the news—a Copperhead cartoon from 1862 (note the horns)