During the 1840s, advances in journalism included all of the following EXCEPT the
A. creation of a national cooperative news-gathering organization.
B. dramatic growth of mass-circulation newspapers.
C. invention of the steam cylinder rotary press.
D. technological means to reproduce photographs in newsprint.
E. introduction of the telegraph system.
Answer: D
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