PROGRESS OF JOURNALISM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 83, 6 March 1884, Page 2

PROGRESS OF JOURNALISM.

Editorial conventions are (says the London Standard), an instiiution^n the United States. At one ; recently held at New York, some. generally interesting., m Co»>rnatjq^, was a^orded In. the conrse of an address by MuDhauncey M. Depew. The. first Amencan.editor not only wirote leading articles, but took down reports of passing events m! his locality, set his own types, read his own proofs, worked himselt- lipoh his press his edition, and distributed t liia f papers m person) One hundliiefrlaiid twenty three 1 years haye, paftse^ and now the greal machines, which are the marvels of modern invention, throw off four million copies of daily jotifnals and twepty-ejght millions of weeklies. Jt is ninety-eiglit- years' since 'tliefii^t daily organ of" pliblic opinion was sturfced m Mew York cifcf, and at present there, are ,'lls in' the State and lOOQ m the country at large. The "ibeolaratiou df Inaeperidfenee had been proclaimed' m Philadelphia three weeks before it. received the benediction of m Thomas Jefferson's newspaper at Williamsburg. To-day the poet's dream of Puck's girdle compassing the world m forty minutes is almost rea- : lised, and tha fantasies of an airy imagination are frequently excelled by sober fact. The stovy of the universe far previous four and twenty hours appears ill ' the morning journal ; a Sunday sermon by Mr" Spurgeon m his Tabernacle m South Londou can be read m full m Philadelphia on Monday ; and inteVWews'^witfei: Popes, Kings, andClfitfeae Ambassadors are cabled under the alrdad Atlantic,' aud form.ntopics of conversißtidn r m Broadway the very day they take place, ■■'.•.;■...