Editing Sag Harbor, New York (section)

=== Newspapers ===
[[File:Marker for David Frothingham residence.jpg|thumb|left|Frothingham Marker, Main St]]
Long Island's first newspaper, ''Frothingham's Long-Island Herald'', was published in Sag Harbor by David Frothingham between 1791 and 1796. His wife, Nancy Pell, ran the newspaper until 1802. Frothingham was sued and found guilty of slander by [[Alexander Hamilton]] for an article published in the Brooklyn newspaper, ''The Argus''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGspisNz4TEC&q=david%20frothingham&pg=PA115|title=Repressive Jurisprudence in the Early American Republic: The First Amendment and the Legacy of English Law|last=Blumberg|first=Phillip I.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2010|isbn=9781139490023|location=New York|pages=115|language=en}}</ref> Unable to pay the bond, Frothingham became a seaman. He is believed to have died at sea, somewhere off the coast of Africa.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://sagharborexpress.com/frothinghams-1791-newspaper-recognized-press-club-long-islands-first/|title=Frothingham's 1791 Newspaper Recognized by Press Club as Long Island's First - The Sag Harbor Express|last=Sampson|first=Christine|date=June 6, 2018|work=The Sag Harbor Express|access-date=November 13, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>

According to local historian Dorothy Zaykowski, "Sag Harbor's earliest newspapers published little in the way of local news, concentrating instead on a story, sermon, and both national and international events. It is likely folks learned all the local gossip and goings on at the general store barber shop, or on the street corner."<ref>Dorothy Zaykowski, ''Sag Harbor – The Story of an American Beauty.''</ref>

The community newspaper ''The Corrector'' was first published in 1822. According to Zaykowski, Henry Wentworth Hunt came to the village from [[Boston]] with three sons, two of whom followed him into the newspaper business. He published ''The Corrector'' weekly until 1837; then published it semi-weekly until his death in 1859. His sons Alexander and Brinley Sleight Hunt took over and published the newspaper daily. When this proved unprofitable, they reverted to weekly publication. ''The Corrector'' later was known as the ''Sag Harbor Corrector''.

The ''Sag Harbor Corrector'' was eventually purchased in 1919 by Burton Corwin, owner of the ''Sag Harbor News''; the merged papers became the ''Sag Harbor News and Corrector''. This amalgamated newspaper was subsequently purchased in the late 1920s by the Gardner family, owners of ''The Sag Harbor Express''. They made the latter the only newspaper in town.<ref>{{cite news |title=History of Sag Harbor's Newspapers |first=Marissa |last=Maier |url=http://sagharboronline.com/history-of-sag-harbors-newspapers/ |newspaper=The Sag harbor Express |publisher=Bryan Boyhan |location=Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y. |date=July 9, 2009 |access-date=April 15, 2016 |quote=As the Sag Harbor Express celebrates its 150th anniversary this week,... }}</ref>
''The Sag Harbor Express'' is still the newspaper for Sag Harbor Village, the Village of North Haven, the Sag Harbor School District and the Bridgehampton School District.