http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1003 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1003#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:09:42 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1003 William Bradford published Manhattan's first newspaper, the New York Gazette, on November 16, 1725. According to F.L. Mott's American Journalism, it was two pages long. Each page was ten by fifteen inches with two columns of text, "chiefly foreign news from three to six months old, state papers]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1003/feed 0 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/292 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/292#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:04:51 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=292 In the golden age of American newspaper journalism, those 60 years between 1890 and 1950, New York had as many as 14 English-language dailies, with telegraphs and telephones to speed the news-gathering, even as high-speed presses printed tens of thousands of newspapers an hour. The radio was not]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/292/feed 0 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1026 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1026#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:37:35 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1026 In 1900, when newspapers were still the only mass media, over thirty daily papers of general and specialized circulation were published in Manhattan alone. But by the Twenties, a combination of massive capital investment and increasing difficulties in getting through traffic jams to deliver the newspapers to customers made launching]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1026/feed 0