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  2. History of American newspapers - Wikipedia

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    Noah Webster, strapped for money, accepted an offer in late 1793 from Alexander Hamilton of $1,500 to move to New York City and edit a Federalist newspaper. In December he founded New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva (later known as The Commercial Advertiser). He edited it for four years, writing the equivalent of 20 volumes of ...

  3. Paperboy - Wikipedia

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    Paperboy license for boys under age 14 in 1970 when girls were not allowed to deliver newspapers in New York State A paperboy for the Toronto Star in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, 1940 The paperboy occupies a prominent place in the popular memory of many countries, including the United Kingdom , United States , Canada , Australia , New Zealand ...

  4. History of newspaper publishing - Wikipedia

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    History of newspaper publishing. Newspaper being packed for delivery, Paris 1848. 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.

  5. Newsboys' strike of 1899 - Wikipedia

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    The newsboys' strike of 1899 was a U.S. youth-led campaign to facilitate change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst 's newspapers compensated their force of newsboys or newspaper hawkers. The strikers demonstrated across New York City for several days, effectively stopping circulation of the two papers, along with the ...

  6. Newspaper hawker - Wikipedia

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    "The Weary Newsboy" by New York City artist James Henry Cafferty (1819–1869) A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were ...

  7. The New York Times Company - Wikipedia

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    The New York Times Company, a leading media company with 2007 revenues of $3.2 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 16 other daily newspapers, WQXR-FM, and more than 50 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com, and About.com.

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