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Download full textNord, David Paul – 1988
The nature and function of news in the public life of seventeenth-century New England and the legacy this conception of news left for the development of American newspaper journalism in the eighteenth century are explored in this paper. The paper argues that the origin of American news--its subject matter, style, and method of reporting--is deeply…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Community Attitudes, Journalism, Newspapers
