![]() In 1901, the term tabloid was being used to describe newspapers that gave stories in condensed form, "usually with illustrated, often sensational material." The word tabloid was originally a trademark referring to a "small tablet of medicine," says the Online Etymology Dictionary, and eventually came to refer to "a compressed form or dose of anything." Pulitzer and Heart's sensationalistic exploits were even blamed for the United States' entry into the Spanish-American War, although historians have noted that "yellow journalism was largely confined to New York City, and that newspapers in the rest of the country did not follow their lead." Yellow journalism is "journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers," and comes from "the use of yellow ink in printing 'Yellow Kid,' a cartoon strip in the New York World." The term yellow journalism was coined around 1898 during the peak of the " circulation battles" between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. ![]() Some resorted to keyhole journalism, says the OED, with "allusion to the action of eavesdropping or spying through a keyhole." By 1810, if you were a writer for hire, you might be called a hack, and in the 1870s, a story you got before a competitor was called a beat or scoop.īy the late 19th century, competition between papers was fierce. ![]() Reporters weren't called reporters until about 1776, as per the OED. By then what's considered the first American newspaper was published in Boston, although "only one edition was published before the paper was suppressed by the colonial officials." A few years later, a weekly called The Boston News-Letter "became the first continuously published newspaper in the colonies." Leaf.has not had a good press lately."īoth newsman and journalist came about in the late 17th century, says the OED. By the late 1860s press came to refer to journalists in general, and to journalistic coverage by 1908: "Mr. This of course comes from printing press, which was invented in the 15th century and quickly gained popularity in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. īy 1649, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), newspapers, journals, and periodicals were collectively referred to as the press. What we do know is that gazette predates the word newspaper by about 60 years. ![]() However, gazeta also means "little magpie," so it's unclear if we get the word from the paper's "price or its association with the bird (typical of false chatter)," says the Online Etymology Dictionary. In 16th century Venice, a monthly notice was published and sold for one gazeta, a small copper coin, which may be where we get gazette, another word for newspaper. ![]()
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