ABSTRACT
Immigrant press, or ethnic press, is a special feature of American Journalism. Native American journalism in the United States bears similar features. A black American press also emerged as a distinctive feature of North American journalism. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm published the first African-American periodical called Freedom’s Journal in 1827. African-American newspapers in the USA served as an important vehicle to put their problems in the national agenda and helped them fight together for the same cause. Since 1828, more than 5,000 black newspapers have been published in the United States. The penny papers and yellow press became one of the first ways to break the elite approach that was a common feature in journalism from the colonial times to the present in most American countries. Today, journalism is undertaken in the Americas via print, broadcast, and the internet.
