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The French established the first newspaper in Africa in Mauritius in 1773. First newspaper in Mauritius. Published weekly from 1773-01-13 to at least 1790 by Nicolas Lambert in Mauritius. First newspaper in South Africa. Published weekly from 1800-08-16 to at least 1829 by the British Government in South Africa.
History of newspaper publishing. 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 first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1605.
History of American newspapers. The history of American newspapers begins in the early 18th century with the publication of the first colonial newspapers. American newspapers began as modest affairs—a sideline for printers. They became a political force in the campaign for American independence. Following independence the first amendment to U ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Early American publishers and printers. A typical printing press of the 18th century. Religious enthusiasm and the great demand for bibles and other religious works is largely what promoted the first printing efforts in the American colonies. Before and during the American Revolution colonial printers were also actively publishing newspapers ...
The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 (Peter Lang Publishing; 2010) 242 pages. Examines the rapid growth of magazines throughout the 20th century and analyzes the form's current decline. Würgler, Andreas. National and Transnational News Distribution 1400–1800, European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History (2010).
Portrait of Abraham Casteleyn and his Wife, Margaretha van Bancken, by Jan de Bray, 1663. The Haarlems Dagblad is a regional newspaper in Haarlem, Netherlands. It claims to be the oldest newspaper in the world still in printed circulation, although it was forced to merge with another Haarlem-based newspaper during the German occupation of the ...
The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, nicknamed "The Staats", is a German-language newspaper in the United States. It is one of the oldest newspapers in the country, having been published since the mid-1830s. Its publisher claims it to be the leading German-language weekly newspaper in the country. [1] In the late 19th century, it was one of New York ...