History of Journalism and Bob Woodward Journalism is a discipline that collects, analyses, verifies, and presents news about current events, trends, issues, and people. Some individuals who practice journalism are called journalists. Journalism's main goal in reporting events is to state the who, what, when, where, why, and how, and to explain the meaning of them all. There are two main types of journalism: print journalism and also broadcast journalism. Print journalism can include newspapers, magazines, newsletters, general interest magazines, and online news pages. Next is television journalism which actually merges into two categories which are radio and television. Radio gathers the facts and journalists are forced to convey the story with the help of interesting background noises and sounds. Television relies primarily on visual information to display and basically help tell the story. The use of television proves useful in characterizing the story with the use of on-camera interviews, interviews with people involved in the story, and images or videos of the location where the story took place. In recent years, journalism has developed steadily and is now part of society's daily life. In America the first newspaper appeared in Boston in 1690, it was called Publick Occurrences. This newspaper was published without authorization, its publisher was arrested and all copies were destroyed. The first successful newspaper was the Boston News-Letter, founded by John Campbell in 1704. Although it was heavily subsidized by the colonial government, the experiment was almost a failure, with very limited circulation. Two more newspapers appeared in the 1720s, in Philadelphia and New York. On the eve of the Revolutionary War, approximately two dozen newspapers were issued throughout the colonies, although Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania would remain the centers of the American press for many years. By the end of the war in 1783, forty-three newspapers were in print, and journalism played a vital role in the affairs of the new nation. The Industrial Revolution, transforming all aspects of American life and society, dramatically affected newspapers. Both the number of newspapers and their paid circulation continued to increase and by 1850 there were over 2,500 titles. It was during the Civil War that the unprecedented demand for timely and accurate news transformed American journalism into a force in national life. Newspaper growth continued unabated in the postwar years, with over 11,000 different newspapers 1880.