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The Progressive Era newspaper war · Every editor for themselves

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Every editor in the room runs a paper. Only one wins the press war.

Get the story right, get it out fast, and decide how big to print it.

New York, 1890. A police reporter is about to light up a tenement with a burst of flash powder. In Pennsylvania, a woman is quietly collecting the documents that will break the biggest company in America. Two penny papers are screaming at each other across Park Row, and you own the newest paper in the city. Every story that comes over the wire is a question about the Progressive Era. The readers go to whoever gets it right first.

Read the lead.The story hits the big screen and your Chromebook at the same moment.
Pick your page.Inside Page is safe. Front Page doubles your sales. EXTRA! triples them, and a wrong EXTRA! costs you readers.
File fast.The sooner you file a correct story, the more copies you sell.
Push reforms.When two thirds of the room nails a reform story, the law passes and everyone who got it right sells more.
Three newsboys with canvas bags full of papers stand on a city street.
Newsboys in Utica, New York, 1910. Lewis Hine, Library of Congress.
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You're in. Watch the big screen. The first story is coming over the wire.

Read the lead.

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Filed.

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From the morgue
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Your paper is

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The Editor's Desk

Pick one advantage for your next three stories.

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Solo edition

You against the Evening Rag, an old paper that gets about seven stories in ten right. After every story you see the fact behind it. At the end you get every story you missed, ready to study.

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How each desk went
Stories you missed
The Morgue
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Circulation report

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The Editor's Desk

Every editor picks one advantage for the next three stories.

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Final edition · the press war is over

Reforms this room pushed through
Full circulation