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Newspaper being packed for delivery, Paris 1848. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] ... Although moveable type printing was invented in China, ...
The telegraph, invented in 1844, quickly linked all major cities and most minor ones to a national network that provided news in a matter of minutes or hours rather than days or weeks. It transformed the news gathering business.
Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840. The first mechanical, movable type printing that allowed the mass production of printed books was invented by Johann Gutenberg around 1450. In the 50 years after Gutenberg started printing, an estimated 500,000 books were in ...
A 1609 title page of the German Relation, the world's first newspaper founded in 1605 [1]. This list of the oldest newspapers sorts the newspapers of the world by the date of their first publication.
The first true newspaper was the weekly Relation aller Fuernemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien ("Collection of all distinguished and memorable news"), started in Strasbourg in 1605. The Avisa Relation oder Zeitung was published in Wolfenbüttel from 1609, and gazettes soon were established in Frankfurt (1615), Berlin (1617) and Hamburg (1618).
Avviso from Antwerp dated 26 Dec 1663. In the early modern period of Europe (1500–1700), journalism originally consisted of handwritten newsletters used to convey political, military, and economic news quickly and efficiently throughout the continent.
The first newspaper established in Connecticut was The Connecticut Gazette in New Haven, on April 12, 1755, a weekly newspaper issued every Friday, by James Parker, in New Haven. [63] [64] [65] As the premier newspaper in that colony, it functioned as a military record in reporting the events of the French and Indian War. Parker's partner was ...
The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information (1996) Walker, Robin B. "The newspaper press in the reign of William III." Historical Journal 17#4 (1974): 691–709. in JSTOR; Williams, Keith. The English Newspaper: An Illustrated History to 1900 (1977) Williams, Kevin. Read All About it: a History of the British ...