History of Journalism and Bob WoodwardJournalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying and presenting information concerning current events, trends, issues and people. Some people who practice journalism are called journalists. The main goal of journalism when reporting events is to tell the who, what, when, where, why and how, and to explain the significance of it all. There are two main types of journalism: print journalism and broadcast journalism. Print journalism can include newspapers, news magazines, newsletters, general interest magazines and online news pages. Next comes audiovisual journalism which is actually divided into two categories: radio and television. Radio gathers the facts and journalists are forced to tell the story using interesting noises and background noises. Television relies primarily on visual information to display and essentially help tell the story. Through the use of television, it is found to help characterize the story through the use of on-camera interviews, interviews with people involved in the story, and images or videos of where the story took place. Journalism has developed steadily in recent years and is part of the daily life of society. In the United States, the first newspaper appeared in Boston in 1690, under the name Publick Occurrences. This newspaper was published without authorization, its editor was arrested and all copies were destroyed. The first successful newspaper was the Boston News-Letter, launched by John Campbell in 1704. Although it was heavily subsidized by the colonial government, the experiment was a near failure, with a very limited circulation. Two more newspapers appeared in the 1720s, in Philadelphia and New York. By the eve of the Revolutionary War, approximately two dozen newspapers were published throughout the colonies, although Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania would remain the centers of American printing for many years. By the end of the war in 1783, there were forty-three newspapers in print whose journalism played a vital role in the affairs of the new nation. The Industrial Revolution, by transforming every aspect of American life and society, significantly affected newspapers. 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 accurate and timely news reporting transformed American journalism into a force in national life. Newspaper growth continued unabated in the post-war years, with over 11,000 different newspapers in 1880.