Thursday, July 24, 2008

Where was the first newspaper printed?


You probably have a bulletin in your school. When you read what's posted on it, what do you get? You get news! At one time, this was the only form of "newspaper" that existed. News would be gathered from travelers or from government sources, and posted on a bulletin board for everyone to read.
Of course, this isn't really a newspaper, because you can take a newspaper with you to read whenever you like. So for the first newspaper ever printed we must go to China about 1300 years ago. At that time the government printed a paper called Tching pao, which meant "News of the Capital". In this way the government was able to keep its people informed of important developments.
There was also a government newspaper in ancient Rome which was distributed among the people. This was called Acta Diurna, which meant "Daily Happenings". These two are the first newspapers of which we have any records.By the 16th century, people were already paying to buy a newspaper! In Venice the government put out a paper called Noitizie Scritte ("Written News") and people paid one gazetta for a copy.
By the 18th century, newspaper were coming out more or less regularly which not only contained news but also opinion. One such paper was started in London as early as 1663 and was called The Intelligencer. Most early papers, however, came out only once a week because both communication and production were slow.
The first American newspaper was called Publick Occurrences, and was started in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1690. It was quickly stopped by the Governor of the colony. Benjamin Franklin conducted a newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, from 1729 to 1765. In 1752, the Colonies has only two newspapers, but at the time of the American Revolution there were 37!Probably the most influential newspaper ever published, The Times Of London, began in 1785 and is still published today.
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