History of Journalism WebQuest

Follow the links and answer the questions below.  Write your answers on a sheet of paper or as an Appleworks document.

I.  http://www.writesite.org/html/tracing.html

A.  What did Captain John Smith publish in 1608?

B.  Whose brother published the New England Courant?

C.  What was the best newspaper in the colonies in 1729?

D.  When were the first printing presses made in America?

E.  What pamphlet by Thomas Paine did colonial newspapers reprint?

F.  When was the First Amendment to the Constitution ratified?

G.  What invention in the mid-1840's made conveying news across distances easier?

H.  What did the association formed to supply foreign news later become?

I.  When did the number of newspapers in the United States reach a high?

J.  What caused a decline in newspaper readership?

K.  What are some events and issues that were uncovered by investigative reporting?

II. http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/journhist.html

A.  What invention in 1456 made newspaper production much easier?

B.  What was the world's first periodical?

C.  What was the world's first regularly published newspaper?

D.  What did Britain's Press Restriction Act require?

E.  What was the first newspaper in the United States (when they were colonies)?

F.  How often were newspapers published in 1750?

G.  How was the New York Herald (1835) different from papers that came before it?

H.  When was the New York Times founded?

I.  Who were William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pullitzer?

J.  Did Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia have more papers in the past or in the present?

K.  What newspaper was founded in the 1980's with no "home" city?