The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Newspapers grew hand in hand with the exponential growth of colleges and universities in America. As many people learned to read and entered schools, they had to use different sources of information in classes. The newspaper was one important source of primary and secondary information. As more students enrolled in college, more were in need to read, learn, and do research. In the 1800s there were some schools in the US. The number increased during the 1900s until there many institutions in each state of the Union. As literacy increased, newspaper editions also did.