Media+studies+timeline

Media Studies Timeline


 *  1690 First American newspaper kown as the //Publick Occurrences.//
 *  1704 First successful American newspaper was //The Boston News-Letter.//
 *  1741 The first American magazines.
 *  1833 The New York Sun begins publication and also the rise of the Penny Press.
 *  1844 Samuel Morse granted patent for his telegraph.
 *  1848 The Associated Press founded.
 *  1877 Thomas Edison invented the talking machine.
 *  1888 Edison lab developed the movie camera.
 *  1890 Linotype machine introduced for newspapers.
 *  1894 Joseph Pulitzer’s //New York World// starts daily women’s page.
 *  1900s Muckraking magazines are introduced.
 *  1911 Newsreels begin and continue into the 1960s.
 *  1920 First radio stations broadcasted in the U.S. and Canada
 *  1922 The //Reader’s Digest// magazine founded.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1923 //Time// magazine has its debut.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1923 AT&T links two radio stations for the first “network”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1936 England is the first country with regular TV broadcasts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1936 Life magazine first debuts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1939 First FM radio station starts in New Jersey.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1950s the “Golden Age of Television”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1958 Videotapes are introduced.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1963 Network news are expanded from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1965-1970s “New Journalism” period ,literary journalism, underground newspapers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1972 Cigarette advertising becomes banned from TV.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1975 Sony Betamax home videocassette recorder was invented.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1982 U//SA Today// starts publication.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1990s Internet access opened to the public.