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The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media 9th ed. (1999), standard textbook; best place to start. Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003) Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States. (2014). ISBN 978-1442225930
Oldest surviving newspaper in Germany, now published as Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung. 1705 Mercurius Hungaricus: Latin Levoča, Bardejov: Kingdom of Hungary: Oldest Hungarian newspaper, issued by the insurgency command of Rákoczi's Uprising, it had 7 issues and last printed in 1710. [27] 1709 The Tatler: English London Kingdom of Great Britain
The Bourbon County Citizen (1807) (established as The Western Citizen, it is the oldest in the state of Kentucky) Press-Republican (April 12, 1811) [5] The Repository (March 30, 1815) (established as The Ohio Repository, it is the oldest in the state of Ohio) [6] The Fayetteville Observer (1816) Observer-Dispatch (1817) Arkansas Democrat ...
Newspaper being packed for delivery, Paris 1848. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe.
The history of American journalism began in 1690, when Benjamin Harris published the first edition of "Public Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestic" in Boston. Harris had strong trans-Atlantic connections and intended to publish a regular weekly newspaper along the lines of those in London, but he did not get prior approval and his paper was suppressed after a single edition. [1]
[21] [22] [17] The Hartford Courant is considered to be the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States, though there is some debate on that status. Before the Stamp Act of 1765 there were twenty-four newspapers among the colonies, save New Jersey, whose news came from newspapers in neighboring Philadelphia and New York. [ 23 ]
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Newspapers have been published in the United States since the 18th century [1] and are an integral part of the culture of the United States. Although a few newspapers including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal are sold throughout the United States, most U.S. newspapers are published for city or regional markets.