Press Corps Living Hiistory Cost: Free Ages: All Hours: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Managing a newspaper in the 1860s was a much different endeavor than today. Printing presses were just becoming mechanized, delivery outreach was expanding thanks to the popularity of the railroad and news stories were becoming "real time" with the use of the new telegraph system.
Citizens clamored for information and for the first time, real time battle reports made the newspaper pages across the country as reporters sent action reports via telegraph service to waiting editors. The associated press was formed during this time.
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