Historical detoursSourced
A newspaper
for a penny.
Cheap mass-produced newspapers spread in the United States from the 1830s. Steam-powered printing helped make news affordable to more readers.
The age of the Moon Hoax
was also an age of expanding readership.
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Penny press · Wikimedia contributors
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Reviewed: 2026-09-30