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Feb 19, 1448
Associated Press founded
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Jan 16, 1450
Gutemberg press
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Mar 21, 1500
Italian gazettes
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Jan 16, 1517
Martin Luther nails Ninety Five Theses
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first press in America
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Dutch Coranto
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–Oxford Gazette
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First American newspaper: Publick Occurrences
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First successful American newspaper: The Boston News-Letter
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John Peter Zenger trial
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First American magazines
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Bill of Rights (including First Amendment) ratified
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Alien and Sedition Acts passed
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– Saturday Evening Post founded
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First African-American newspaper in U.S.: Freedom’s Journal
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First Native American newspaper in U.S.: Cherokee Phoenix
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Noah Webster publishes first dictionary
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New York Sun begins publication; rise of the Penny Press
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Samuel Morse granted patent for telegraph. First message, May 24: “What hath God wrought?” Second message: “Have you any news?”
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Thomas Edison invents the “talking machine”
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Edison lab develops movie camera
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George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera
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Linotype machine introduced at newspapers
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first “New Journalism” period; “Yellow Journalism”
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Edison develops mass market phonograph
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Edison patents Kinetoscope – first parlor opens 1894 in New York
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Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World starts daily women’s page
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“Stunt girl” Nellie Bly circles the world
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Muckraking magazines
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Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives radio message across the Atlantic
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First “nickelodeon”
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Reginald Fessenden broadcasts voice
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Newsreels begin; continue into 1960s
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Titanic sinks; leads to Federal Radio Act of 1912
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World War I propaganda, censorship, technology
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D.W. Griffith releases Birth of a Nation, first full-length film to significantly impact culture
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Charlie Chaplin becomes the first entertainer to earn $1 million
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RCA founded
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First radio stations in U.S. and Canada
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Jazz Journalism” tabloids
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Reader’s Digest magazine founded
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Lee de Forest shows first “talkie”
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Time magazine debuts
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AT&T links two radio stations for first “network”
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A.C. Nielsen company begins
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Federal Radio Act sets up commission to regulate airwaves
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Philo Farnsworth applies for electronic TV patents
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The Jazz Singer released
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Academy Awards given for the first time (Wings wins Best Picture)
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“Golden Age of Movies”
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Eleanor Roosevelt insists on women-only press conferences (“the Roosevelt Rule”)
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established
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England is first country with regular TV broadcasts
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Life magazine debuts
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Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast
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TV is a hit at the World’s Fair
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First FM radio station started in New Jersey
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First TV commercial advertises a Bulova clock
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Welles’s Citizen Kane released; sometimes called the best movie of all time
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John H. Johnson starts Negro Digest; would later found Ebony and Jet
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Red Scare leads to congressional investigation of Hollywood
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Supreme Court hands down Paramount Decision
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Red Channels: The Communist Influence in Radio and Television ruins careers
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“Golden Age of Television”
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“I Love Lucy” debuts; uses film and three cameras
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FCC lifts “the Freeze” imposed in 1948
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Playboy magazine introduced; Marilyn Monroe is first centerfold
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TV Guide magazine debuts; Lucille Ball and her newborn son on first cover
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–Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” focuses on Joseph McCarthy
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Elvis Presley discovered by Sam Phillips of Sun Records
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videotape introduced
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– Quiz show scandal rocks television industry
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Nikon F the first nikon
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Kennedy-Nixon debate
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Internet formed for exchange of ideas, not available to general public
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Network news expands from 15 minutes to 30 minutes
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Betty Friedan writes The Feminine Mystique
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New York Times v. Sullivan gives press new right to criticize public officials
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The Beatles first tour America
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Second “New Journalism” period; literary journalism; underground newspapers
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Congress passes Public Broadcasting Act; PBS formed
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Neal Armstrong walks on moon; we see it on TV
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ABC introduces made-for-TV movies
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Feminists stage sit-in at Ladies Home Journal
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Ms. magazine launched
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Life magazine died; came back as monthly from 1978 to 2000
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Boylan v. New York Times sex discrimination lawsuit filed
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Cigarette advertising banned from TV
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Richard Nixon resigns, a result of Watergate coverage
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People magazine introduced
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Sony Betamax home videocassette recorder introduced
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Home Box Office (formed by Time, Inc. in 1972) begins satellite distribution of TV; Ted Turner starts first “superstation”
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Matsushita introduces VHS
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laser disc player introduced; largely a failure, but opened door for CDs
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Sony Walkman appears in Japan
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Iranian hostage crisis leads to “Nightline” and loss by Jimmy Carter to a former radio broadcaster and movie actor
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“Who Shot J.R.?” on “Dallas” is first TV season-ending cliff-hanger
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MTV (Music Television) first airs; first video is “Video Killed the Radio Star”
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USA Today begins publication
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Home shopping network debuts
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Sony introduces CD player
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Internet access opened to general public; changes everything
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Telecommunications Act of 1996 brings V-chip, deregulation, and dramatic increase in mergers and takeovers
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Titanic records global box office sales of $1.8 billion
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I Tunes
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Apple opens retal store
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Ipod can store 1000 songs
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American Idol begins its first season
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Broadband is in half of American homes
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Google Library Book Project, digitization of books
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Presidential debates on YouTube
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3 D tvs
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Steve jobs dies
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Samsung vs. Apple
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first Iphone
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