Abstract
This article directs attention to the remarkable developments of 1897 and argues that year merits recognition as a pivotal moment in the trajectory of American journalism. In presenting that case, the article pursues a methodological frame—a single-year study—that has been little tested in journalism history, a field that leading scholars have criticized for resistance to fresh ways of considering journalism's past. The notable developments of 1897 included the publication of perhaps the most famous editorial in American journalism, the diffusion of the enduring epithet “yellow journalism,” and a breakthrough in applying half-tone technology in daily newspapers. It also was the year when a choice between rival visions for the future of American journalism crystallized between the activist ethos of the New York Journal and the detached, fact-based antithesis of that genre, the New York Times.
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