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In December he founded New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva (later known as The Commercial Advertiser). He edited it for four years, writing the equivalent of 20 volumes of articles and editorials. He also published the semi-weekly publication, The Herald, A Gazette for the country (later known as The New York Spectator). As a ...
It started in January, 1846 by an American missionary Dr. Nathan Brown and printed and published at the Sibsagar Mission Press by O.T Cutter, was the first newspaper in Assam as well as the first newspaper in Assamese. [95] [96] 1846 The Times of Ceylon: English Colombo: British Ceylon
The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first newspaper to publish the Declaration of Independence and the first daily newspaper to be established in the United States. [70] [71] In 1740, there were 16 newspapers, all published weekly, in British America.
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
Benjamin Towne published the first issue of the Post on January 24, 1775, [6] using paper borrowed from James Humphreys without expectation of payment. [7] The paper was supportive of the cause of the American Revolution, [6] and was the first to publish the United States Declaration of Independence, with it taking up the front page of the July 6, 1776 issue.
The Santa Fe New Mexican (1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Southwestern and Western United States) Deseret News (1850) [9] Placerville Mountain Democrat (1851) Ellsworth American (1851) The New York Times (1851) The Express-Times (1855) The Florida Times-Union (1864, founded as The Florida Union) Parsons Sun (1871) The ...
This is considered the first newspaper in the American colonies even though only one edition was published before the paper was suppressed by the colonial officials, possibly due to censorship and control issues. It followed the two-column format and was a single sheet, printed on both sides.
The New-England Courant (also spelled New England Courant), one of the first American newspapers, was founded in Boston in 1721, by James Franklin. It was a weekly newspaper and the third to appear in Boston. Unlike other newspapers, it offered a more critical account about the British colonial government and other royal figures of authority.