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News Coverage Expands With a Nation:
As news became more of a commodity, publishers wanted more of it, faster. Instead of waiting for the story to come to them, they sent reporters out to get it. As America moved West, the telegraph made it possible for newspaper to print current reports from across a vast continent.
1870
Stunts Sell Newspapers:
Near the latter part of the 19th century, metropolitan newspapers engaged in what came to be called "stunt journalism" -- sending reporters on unusual assignments. In 1871, explorer Henry Morton Stanley arrived in Africa from The New York Herald to search for missing missionary Dr. David Livingstone. "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley said upon finding the missionary. |