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Newspapers

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Also Known As The Press
Print
Folded Newspaper

The printed periodical press, the oldest mass medium in this atlas, from the first printed weeklies of the early seventeenth century through the mass-circulation dailies that made journalism an industry and a profession. The newspaper built the working vocabulary of news itself: the headline, the correspondent, the editorial, the front page.

Facts
Origin Year
1605 1
1605 is the conventional date of Johann Carolus's Relation in Strasbourg, widely counted the first printed newspaper; handwritten newsletters and printed news pamphlets circulated earlier.
Origin
The German-language Relation, printed from 1605 by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, is often recognized as the first newspaper. 1
Place of Origin
Strasbourg, then a free city of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 1
Primary Format
A periodical publication containing written information about current events. 1
Typical Distribution
Funded and distributed through a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales and advertising revenue. 1
Connections

Associated With

Associated Press, Organizations

Founded as a newspaper cooperative; now serves every news medium.

Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Founding of the New York Sun, Milestones
Source Wikipedia
Ida B. Wells, Figures

Pioneering investigative journalist publishing anti-lynching exposes in the newspaper medium in the 1890s.

Joseph Pulitzer, Figures
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Nellie Bly, Figures
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Reuters, Organizations

The wire services grew up serving newspapers and now serve every news medium.

Source Encyclopedia Britannica
William Randolph Hearst, Figures

Built one of the largest newspaper chains in American history, pioneering sensationalized reporting in the newspaper medium.

Media Entries

Agenda-Setting Theory, Concepts
Associated Press, Organizations
Founding of the New York Sun, Milestones
Gatekeeping, Concepts
Reuters, Organizations
The New York Times, Organizations
The Washington Post, Organizations
Watergate Reporting, Milestones
Wirephoto, Technologies
Yellow Journalism, Concepts
Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Newspaper, Europe section
    The German-language Relation aller Fuernemmen und gedenckwuerdigen Historien, printed from 1605 onwards by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, is often recognized as the first newspaper.
  • Early development section
    The German-language Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, printed from 1605 onwards by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, is often recognized as the first newspaper.
  • Newspaper, Early development (Europe) section
    printed from 1605 onwards by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, is often recognized as the first newspaper.
  • Newspaper, Overview section
    Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue.
  • Associated With: Founding of the New York Sun, The Sun (New York City), Founding
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A Social History of the Media
Asa Briggs and Peter Burke, Polity Press, 2009
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
  • Associated With: Joseph Pulitzer
  • Associated With: Nellie Bly
  • Associated With: Reuters
  • Associated With: Associated Press
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