Newspaper

A newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. It may be general or special interest, and may be published daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly. They are the oldest form of widespread information gathering and dispersal, dating back some 300 years in their present form, and can be found in every country and major city of the world, as well as in most smaller communities.

History

According to the World Association of Newspapers:

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59 BC: Regular publications have been created and distributed by governments for millennia, including Acta Diurna, a listing of events ordered by Julius Caesar in ancient Rome.

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59 BC - Julius Caesar - Ancient Rome

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A.D. 713: The first newspaper, Mixed News in Kaiyuan, was published as hand-written newssheet in Beijing, China. Kaiyuan is the name given to the year in which the paper is published.

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713 - Mixed News - Beijing - China - Kaiyuan

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1605: Johann Carolus publishes the first printed newspaper Relation aller fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Collection of all distiguished and commemorable news) in Strasbourg, now in France but at the time an independent city within the (mostly) German-speaking Holy Roman Empire.

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1605 - Strasbourg - France - Holy Roman Empire

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1621: The first English-language private newspaper, The Corante, was first published, in London.

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1621 - The Corante - London

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1631: La Gazette, the first French newspaper, was founded.

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1631 - French

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1632: Courante uyt Italien ende Duytschlandt, the first Dutch newspaper, was founded.

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1632 - Dutch

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1645: the oldest newspaper still in circulation, Post-och Inrikes Tidningar of Sweden, began publishing.

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1645 - Post-och Inrikes Tidningar - Sweden

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1650: The world's first daily printed newspaper, Einkommende Zeitungen (Incoming news) founded in Leipzig, Germany.

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1650 - Leipzig - Germany

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1690: Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick in Boston became the first newspaper published in British North America. It was suppressed after one issue.

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1690 - Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick - British North America

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1701: (September 6) Estimated first issue of the Norwich Post in England, which was probably the first provincial newspaper.

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1701 - September 6 - Norwich Post - England

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1702: The first English daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, was founded by Samuel Buckley on 11 March. (Publication ceased in 1735).

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1702 - Daily Courant - 11 March - 1735

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1709: Worcester Post-Man founded, which became Berrow's Worcester Journal in 1753, The Worcester Post-Man/Berrow's Worcester Journal is Britain?s oldest surviving unofficial newspaper.

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1709 - 1753 - Worcester Post-Man/Berrow's Worcester Journal

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1728: St. Petersburg Vedomosti, the oldest Russian newspaper still in circulation, is founded in Saint Petersburg.

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1728 - St. Petersburg Vedomosti - Russia - Saint Petersburg

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1780: The Bengal Gazette, India's first newspaper, was founded.

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1780 - The Bengal Gazette - India

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1785: The Daily Universal Register was founded by John Walters. It became The Times on January 1, 1788.

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1785 - The Times - January 1 - 1788

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1803: Just 15 years after the first British penal colony was established, Australia's military government published the Sydney Gazette and the New South Wales Advertiser, Australia's first newspapers.

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1803 - Penal colony - Australia

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1821: The Guardian was founded.

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1821 - The Guardian

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1933: (September 3) The New York Sun, the first truly successful penny press in the United States, was first published by Benjamin H. Day. By 1936, the paper was the largest seller in the country, with a circulation of over 30,000 copies.

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1933 - September 3 - New York Sun - Penny press - United States - Benjamin H. Day - 1936

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1834 The Gleaner was first published.

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1834 - The Gleaner

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1871: Yokohama Mainichi Shimbun (Yokohama Daily News) is launched as the first daily newspaper in Japan. Today, on a per-capita basis, Japan ranks first in the world in circulation of newspapers.

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1871 - Yokohama Mainichi Shimbun - Japan

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1884: Otto Merganthaler invented the Linotype machine, which casts type in full lines using hot lead, a quantum leap in newspaper publishing, and ushering in the era of "hot lead." The systems remained in general production in the industry well into the 1980s, when computerized became prominent.

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1884 - Linotype - Lead - 1980s

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1962: The Los Angeles Times drives linotype hot metal typesetters with perforated tape created from RCA computers speeding up the typesetting. The key was development of a dictionary and method to automate the hyphenation and justification of text in columns (tasks that had taken 40 percent of a manual operator's time).

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1962 - Los Angeles Times - RCA - Typesetting - Dictionary - Hyphen

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1973: Harris introduced editing terminals, which were quickly followed by terminals from Raytheon, Atex, Digital Equipment Corporation and others. The output was strips of type on film from phototypesetters ("cold type" replacing the "hot type" of linotype machines. Atex worked with the Minneapolis Star to develop the first pagination system that allowed the creation and output of full editorial pages, eliminating the need for manual paste-up of strips of film. The Atex system featured "Atex Messaging" which is widely believed to be the forerunner of both e-mail and instant messenger applications.

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1973 - Raytheon - Atex - Digital Equipment Corporation

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