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History of American newspapers
The history of American newspapers spans from Publick Occurrences in Boston in 1690, through the penny press of the 1830s and the objective commercial press, to a sharp decline since 2005.
Muckraker
Muckraker: term coined by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 for Progressive Era investigative journalists like Tarbell, Steffens, and Sinclair who exposed corruption and spurred reform.