History
The beginning of jazz journalism was Joseph Medill Patterson's The New York Daily News in 1919. It was followed by William Randolph Hearst's New York Daily Mirror.In 1920, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer extended yellow journalism into tabloid journalism with an emphasis on sex, violence, murder, and celebrity affairs. Papers such as the New York Daily News used big headlines, large photos, and short, punchy text. It was a New York Daily News reporter who secretly took a photo of Ruth Snyder as she was being electrocuted at Sing Sing prison in 1928.
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