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The first newspaper was the Gazette de France, established in 1632 by the king's physician Theophrastus Renaudot (1586–1653), with the patronage of Louis XIII. [52] All newspapers were subject to prepublication censorship, and served as instruments of propaganda for the monarchy.
First newspaper in present-day Indonesia, ceased publication in 1746. 1806 [101] The Prince of Wales Island Gazette: English Penang: British Malaya: First newspaper in Southeast Asia; [101] last issue rolled off the press on 7 July 1827; weekly edition survived until January 1830. 1811 [102] Del Superior Govierno: Spanish Manila: Spanish East ...
The New England Courant, the 7 August 1721 front page. It was James Franklin (1697–1735), Benjamin Franklin's older brother, who first made a news sheet something more than a garbled mass of stale items, "taken from the Gazette and other Public Prints of London" some six months late.
The first private newspaper to be published by Turkish journalists, Tercüman-ı Ahvâl (Interpreter of Events), was founded by İbrahim Şinasi and Agah Efendi and issued in 1860. [29] The first newspaper in Iran, Kaghaz-e Akhbar (The Newspaper), was created for the government by Mirza Saleh Shirazi in 1837. [30]
The new news writing style first spread to the provincial press through the Midland Daily Telegraph around 1900. [29] Newspapers increasingly made their profit from selling advertising. In the 1850s and 1860s the ads appealed to the increasingly affluent middle-class that sought out a variety of new products.
Newspaper editor in Boston; founded the first regularly published newspaper in the British colonies in America, The Boston News-Letter Mathew Carey 1760–1839 Irish-born American publisher and economist from Philadelphia, founder of The Pennsylvania Herald , with the help of Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette
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).
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 .