Christine Craft Rights Act of 1964) and her media experiences. Her story was featured in an exhibit at the Newseum, an interactive museum of news and journalism located in Washington, D.C. Christine Craft Christine Ann Craft (born 1944) is an attorney, radio talk show host and former television news anchor. She became known in the broadcast industry in the 1980s for her age and sexual discrimination lawsuit against a television station that had demoted her from news anchor to reporter. Craft was born in 1944 in San Marino, California. After graduating from college with a degree in English in 1966, she spent
History of journalism in the United Kingdom publication, with technical advances in printing and communication combined with a professionalisation of journalism and the prominence of new owners. A pioneer of popular journalism for the masses had been the Chartist "Northern Star", first published on 26 May 1838. The same time saw the first cheap newspaper in the "Daily Telegraph and Courier" (1855), later to be known simply as the "Daily Telegraph". "The Illustrated London News", founded in 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. Reformers pressured the government and it repeatedly cut the high taxes on knowledge, including the excise duty on paper and the 5-penny