Anna Catharina Zenger

Anna Catharina Zenger (–1751) was an American publisher and the first woman to publish a newspaper in America.

Her family having fled the Pfalz region of Germany, she was born Anna Catharina Maul around 1704, possibly in England or in the Netherlands.

Her husband had worked for New York printer William Bradford, advancing from an indentured servant, to a journeyman, and eventually becoming Bradford's partner in 1725.

As their conflict with the governor intensified, the opposition founded a newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal, with John Zenger as the editor, publisher and printer. Cooper wrote five songs that were adapted from the book. They were performed on the October 4, 1946, episode of Highways in Melody on NBC radio.