History of the Newspaper

Newspapers

 Newspapers tend to meet four criteria:

• Publicity: The contents are reasonably accessible to the public.
• Periodicity: The newspaper is published at regular intervals.
• Currency: The information in the newspaper is up to date.
• Universal: The newspaper covers a range of topics.

History of the Newspaper Industry

59 B.C: Acta Diurna the first newspaper is published in Rome.

1631: The first french newspaper published, The Gazette.

1690: The first newspaper is published in America, Publick Occurrences.

1704: Considered the world's first journalist, Daniel Defoe publishes the Review.

1830: Number of newspapers published in the U.S. is 715.

1833: The New York Sun costs one cent- the beginning of penny press.

1855: The first newspaper is published in Sierra Leone.

1864: William James Carlton of J. Walter Thompson Company begins selling advertising space in
newspapers. The J. Walter Thompson Company is the longest running American advertising company.

1873: First illustrated daily newspaper in New York
.
1877: First weather report with map published in Australia.

1954: There are more radio stations than there are daily newspapers.

1967: Newspapers use digital production processes and began using computers.

2007: There are now 1,456 daily newspapers in the United States alone, selling 55 million copies a day.

2009: Newspapers are moving into online internet versions.