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Anna Zenger Named America’s First Newspaper Woman
In a new historical study by Kent Cooper, Anna Zenger, wife of John Peter Zenger, is proposed as the driving force behind the New York Weekly Journal. The book argues she wrote the sharp editorials that sparked colonial support for press freedom, portraying her as the era’s first female editor and publisher during her husband’s nine months imprisonment.
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