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On September 25, 1690 in Boston, Benjamin Harris issued Publick Occurences, Both Foreign and Domestick, The paper was only published once.

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The Boston Gazette was started in 1719, the town's postmaster, William Brooker, edited as a Weekly post.

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Also in 1719, the first newspaper outside of Boston was named the American Weekly Mercury, started and published by Andrew Bradford in Philadelphia.

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James Franklin created the New England Courant, in 1721 the paper talked about a lot of popular and controversial topics; like small pox.

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William Bradford founded the New York Gazette in 1725.

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In 1728 a news paper started by Samuel Keimer and was the rival to the American Weekly Mercury.

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Benjamin Franklin purchased the Gazette in 1729 recently started by Samuel Keimer just a year before Franklin's purchase.

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Peter Zenger in 1733 founded the Weekly Journal.

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In 1741 Andrew Bradford created the American Magazine.

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Mary Katherine Goddard learned the way of printing from her father, she assisted her mother with the publishing of the weekly news named the Providence Gazette from 1765 to 1768.

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Benjamin Towne turned his Pennsylvania Evening Post into the first a daily paper, the first of it's kind in 1783 America.

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In 1787 the American Magazine was created by Noah Webster in New York.

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September 1833 Benjamin Day started the daily New York Sun and sold it for 1 cent.

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In 1835, James Gordon Bennett founded the New York Herald.

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By 1800 there were approximate 200 papers in the United States. Almost 33 years later and there were 1,200 and about 3,000 in 1860.

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September 15 1921, the first radio station to allow broadcast was station WBZ in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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In 1922, Readers Digest was found and published by DeWitt Wallace.

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In 1940 the FCC established FM.

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Crunched numbers observed when the 1940's came around, there were more than 1,800 daily papers. The number did decline though through the 1900's and 2000's.

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To make their news more interesting in December 2005, ABC named Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff co-anchors to replace Peter Jennings.

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Katie Couric was named the first solo woman news anchor of a national newscast, when CBS Evening News appointed her in September 2006.

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In 2007 the paper titled USA Today had the largest circulation in the country with 2,628,437 readers.