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Yellow journalism emerged in the intense battle for readers by two newspapers in New York City in 1890s. It was not common in other cities. Joseph Pulitzer purchased the New York World in 1883 and told his editors to use sensationalism, crusades against corruption, and lavish use of illustrations to boost circulation.
The New York Beacon is an African-American newspaper in New York City . In 1981, Big Red News, a weekly newspaper in New York City, was bought by Walter "Ball" Smith. He later changed the name of the paper to New York Beacon with the mission of delivering news to the African-American community there. "Showing the Way to Truth and Justice" soon ...
The New York Line was a formation within the Continental Army. The term "New York Line" referred to the quota of numbered infantry regiments assigned to New York at various times by the Continental Congress. These, together with similar contingents from the other twelve states, formed the Continental Line. The concept was particularly important ...
Survivor of a Nazi concentration camp reading The Forward in Germany on 11 March 1946. The Forward ( Yiddish: פֿאָרווערטס, romanized : Forverts ), formerly known as The Jewish Daily Forward, [2] is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish -language daily socialist newspaper, The ...
The Archdiocese of New York ( Latin: Archidiœcesis Neo-Eboracensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the State of New York. It encompasses the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island in New York City and the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster ...
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. [4] Its reported daily circulation had fallen to under 69,000 copies per day as of June 2022. [5] It reported 300,000 print and digital subscribers in 2017.
History. In 1970 the Right to Life Party was formed in New York following the decriminalization of abortion in New York. The party attempted to run a gubernatorial ticket made up of Jane Gilroy and Marcia Pilsner and obtained 14,062 signatures, 2,000 more than the 12,000 needed to receive ballot access.
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News . It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day.