Buying and Selling the News in the Gilded Age
Join Michael Morgenthal, veteran journalist, writer, and professional tour guide, for this journey through the news process of late 19th-century New York. Michael shares how the Gilded Age developed a nearly 24-hour news cycle and how news was reported and transmitted. In addition, Michael discusses the growth of sensational “yellow journalism” and the great competitions among titans such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst as the Gilded Age set the stage for the modern news machine we find today.
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