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The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media 9th ed. (1999), standard textbook; best place to start. Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003) Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States. (2014). ISBN 978-1442225930
In 1719, the Boston Gazette was established in Boston and the first newspaper in Philadelphia, The American Weekly Mercury, was founded by Andrew Bradford. In 1736, the first newspaper in to emerge in Virginia was the Virginia Gazette, [a] founded by William Rind in Virginia. Rind was soon appointed public printer.
A typical printing press of the 18th century. List of early American publishers and printers is a stand alone list of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles.
Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick was the first multi-page newspaper published in British colonial America. After its first issue, which carried an account that offended the colonial governor, the newspaper was promptly closed down by British colonial authorities, only days later.
James Franklin (February 4, 1697 in Boston – February 4, 1735 in Newport, Rhode Island) was an early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the American colonies. Franklin published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short lived Rhode Island ...
The Boston News-Letter, first published on April 24, 1704, is regarded as the first continuously published newspaper in the colony of Massachusetts. It was heavily subsidized by the British government, with a limited circulation.
The Cambridge Press, 1638–1692; a history of the first printing press established in English America. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Round, Phillip H. (2010). Removable type: histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3390-2. Rush, Benjamin (2019). Butterfield, Lyman Henry (ed.).
The New-England Courant (also spelled New England Courant), one of the first American newspapers, was founded in Boston in 1721, by James Franklin. It was a weekly newspaper and the third to appear in Boston. Unlike other newspapers, it offered a more critical account about the British colonial government and other royal figures of authority.