WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. History of American newspapers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers

    History of American newspapers. The history of American newspapers begins in the early 18th century with the publication of the first colonial newspapers. American newspapers began as modest affairs—a sideline for printers. They became a political force in the campaign for American independence. Following independence the first amendment to U ...

  3. Star (newspaper) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(newspaper)

    Star, a glossy celebrity magazine, originally a supermarket tabloid newspaper. The Star (Chicago newspaper), a Chicago, Illinois, newspaper group. The Star (Florida), a weekly newspaper published in Port St. Joe, Florida, U.S. The Star, an African American paper in Newport News, Virginia. The Star (Tinley Park), Chicago.

  4. List of newspapers in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the...

    Star-Gazette (1828, founded as Elmira Gazette, the first newspaper of the now massive Gannett conglomerate) The Providence Journal (1829) The Post-Standard (1829) The Philadelphia Inquirer (1829, founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer) The Stamford Advocate (1829, founded as The Stamford Intelligencer)

  5. Newspapers founded in Washington, D.C., during the 18th and ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers_founded_in...

    Newspapers by founding date 1700s. Georgetown, originally part of the state of Maryland, was the first populated place in Washington, D.C. The first newspapers appeared in Georgetown, which became an independently municipal government within the District of Columbia, along with the City of Washington, the City of Alexandria (retroceeded to Virginia in 1846), and the newly created County of ...

  6. The Kansas City Star - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kansas_City_Star

    The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. [3] The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in ...

  7. The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Star_(anti...

    The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847, and ceased as The North Star in June 1851, when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in Syracuse, New York) to form Frederick Douglass' Paper.

  8. History of newspaper publishing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_newspaper...

    History of newspaper publishing. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1605.

  9. The Star Democrat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Democrat

    The Star Democrat. The Star Democrat is an American newspaper published and mainly distributed in Easton, Maryland, in Talbot County, as well as in the surrounding counties of Caroline, Dorchester, Queen Anne's and Kent. The Star Democrat is published on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. The Tuesday edition is currently digital only.