editorial page

Examples of editorial page in the following topics:

• Newspapers

  • Many of the changes that came with this shift brought about new features of journalism that remain important today, such as the editorial page, personal interviews, business news, and foreign-news correspondents.
  • Newspapers and their editors began to show greater personal and editorial influence as they realized the broader appeal of human-interest stories.
  • The editorial voice of each newspaper grew more distinct and important, and the editorial page began to assume something of its modern form.
  • The editorial signed with a pseudonym gradually died, but unsigned editorial comment and leading articles did not become established features until after 1814, when Nathan Hale made them characteristic of the newly established Boston Daily Advertiser.
  • Journalists reported the party line and editorialized in favor of party positions.

• Partisan Politics

  • It no longer mattered as much what the editorial page said—most newspapers opposed him—as long as his speeches made the front page.

• The "Color Line"

  • Du Bois wrote an editorial in 1914 deploring the dismissal of blacks from federal posts, and he supported William Monroe Trotter when Trotter brusquely confronted Wilson about Wilson's failure to fulfill his campaign promise of justice for blacks.
  • Du Bois also wrote an editorial supporting the African-American Great Migration, the movement of blacks from the southern U.S. to the Northeast, Midwest, and West, because he felt it would help blacks escape southern racism, find economic opportunities, and assimilate into American society.
  • Title page of The Souls of Black Folk.

• The Trial of Zenger

  • Zenger also published editorials detailing what he considered to be Cosby's offensive actions, including his rancorous quarrel with the colonial Council over his salary and his removal of Chief Justice Lewis Morris from the New York Supreme Court so that he could replace him with a more pliable official.
  • Page one of this issue, dated February 25, 1733, features an article written under the pseudonym "Cato" (after the famed ancient Roman orator and historian).

• Urban Recreation

  • Journalists reported the party line and editorialized in favor of party positions.
  • Penny papers hired reporters and correspondents to seek out and write the news, and started to sound more journalistic than editorial.

• A Communications Revolution

  • Journalists reported the party line and editorialized in favor of party positions.

• Freedom of Expression and its Limits

  • Zenger published editorials detailing Cosby's rancorous quarrel with the colonial council over his salary, as well as Cosby's removal of Chief Justice Lewis Morris from the New York Supreme Court in order to replace him with a more pliable official.

• Marcus Garvey

  • Garvey summarized his essential ideas in the Negro World editorial "African Fundamentalism," in which he wrote, “Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality…to let us hold together under all climes in every country….”

• The Rise of Garveyism

  • His essential ideas about Africa were stated in an editorial in the Negro World titled "African Fundamentalism," in which he wrote:

• Progress and Poverty

  • After his period of civil service, he again returned to the lecture field, and was an editorial writer for the New York American and Chicago American from 1898 until his death in New York City, on October 15, 1899.