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It is the first newspaper written entirely in a Native American language, [3] and the first published in what became the state of Kansas. An unrelated previous publication, the Cherokee Phoenix, had been written in both English and Cherokee. [1]: 243 [5] Meeker relied on the writings of both the Shawnee and white settlers in the publication.
Founded in 1856 by future United States Senator Robert Crozier, the Times claims to be the oldest daily newspaper in Kansas. Daniel R. Anthony, brother of Susan B. Anthony, bought the paper in 1871 and the paper remained in the Anthony family until the 1960s, even after Daniel Anthony shot and killed rival publisher R.C. Satterlee of the Kansas Herald, in 1871 (he was acquitted at trial), and ...
He applied a subheading to the newspaper The Morning Kansas City Star and declared that The Kansas City Star was a 24-hour-a-day newspaper. In accordance with his will, employees took over the newspaper in 1926 upon the death of his daughter. The Star and Times were locally owned by employees until 1977, when they were sold to Capital Cities.
The Postal Service Act of 1792 provided substantial subsidies: Newspapers were delivered up to 100 miles for a penny and beyond for 1.5 cents, when first class postage ranged from six cents to a quarter. The American press grew rapidly during the First Party System (1790s–1810s) when both parties sponsored papers to reach their loyal partisans.
1900: Charles M. Sheldon, saying "Newspapers should be operated as Christ would operate them," sends the Capital circulation skyrocketing from 12,000 to 387,000, forcing it to print papers in New York and Chicago. 1901: Arthur Capper buys the Capital and becomes sole owner in 1904. 1940: Oscar S. Stauffer buys the Journal.
In 1870, The Vidette was the first newspaper established in Wichita by Fred A. Sowers and W. B. Hutchinson. [3] It operated briefly. [4] [5]On April 12, 1872, The Wichita Eagle was founded and edited by Marshall M. Murdock, [6] [7] and it became a daily paper in May 1884. [4]
On May 16, 2020, the front page of the Journal-World announced that the newspaper would cease publication of all Monday print editions as of May 25. [ 14 ] On Sept. 28, 2020, the newsroom staff of the Journal-World publicly announced its plan to unionize as the Lawrence Journalism Workers Guild, or LJW Guild. [ 15 ]
The history of journalism spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis that has caused, as one history of journalism surmises, the steady increase of "the scope of news available to us and the speed with which it is transmitted".