https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:57:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1003 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:09:42 +0000 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]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/292 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:04:51 +0000 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]]>