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- The power of print. In this digital age, it’s all too easy to overlook what it’s like not just to read words, but to hold them in your hand in newsprint.
- Kennedy is Killed by Sniper as He Rides in Car in Dallas; Johnson Sworn in on Plane. The day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated changed the course of American history, and the newspaper headlines including this one from The New York Times on November 22, 1963, reflected that.
- Young Elected City’s 1st Black Mayor. Long before Barack Obama made history as the first African-American president of the United States, Coleman Young was making headlines in Detroit when he was elected mayor as noted by this headline from the Detroit Free Press on November 6, 1973.
- Ford to City: Drop Dead. In a speech on October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford denied the federal assistance necessary to spare New York from bankruptcy.
6 days ago · A newspaper is a publication intended for a broad audience that appears regularly, often daily, and claims to contain factual accounts of recent events. Usually newspapers are published with the intention of making a profit. Frequently, their factual content is accompanied by advertisements and nonfactual material intended as entertainment.
Oct 24, 2017 · From the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, newspapers became more profitable as populations and commerce expanded and reader and advertising revenues grew. During this time, mainstream newspapers represented the interests of political parties and cultural groups. This entry is part of a series on the history of the newspaper industry in Canada.
- Newspapers Worldwide
- Canadian Journalism
- The First Period, 1752-1807
- The Second Period, 1807-1858
- The Third Period, 1858-1900
- The Twentieth Century and Beyond
One of the earliest publications that could be described as a daily newspaper appeared in Rome around 69 B.C. It was a primitive news sheet called Acta Diurna (acts of the day) and described the activities of the Roman Senate. Marco Polo, after his 13th century journey to the Orient, returned to Europe with the idea of the court gazette, thought to...
Much of the following is a condensation of the book, A History of Journalism in Canada, by W. H. Kesterton, published by McClelland and Stewart Limited in 1967.
Newspapers were transplanted to Canada from the New England colonies. The first was the Halifax Gazette, issued on March 23, 1752, by John Bushell, a printer from Boston. It was during this 55-year period that Canada’s early easternmost provinces saw their first newspapers established, including the Quebec Gazette, whose roots still exist in what h...
As settlers arrived from Great Britain and the United States, newspapers began to grow in the Maritimes and the two Canadas. Self-sufficient editors began obtaining revenue from commercial advertisements, rather than government business. Editors were usually politicians, and their newspapers were labelled according to the political stands they took...
The press spread westward with new settlers. The discovery of gold between 1856 and 1858 brought people to the Pacific Coast region, while the Homestead Act of 1872, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and development of hardy wheat varieties brought settlers to the Prairies. There was an interest in domestic affairs, such as the Riel Rebellion and Confe...
The 20th century began an era of immense change for Canadian newspapers. Through two world wars, a depression, and the post-war years of industrial and technological development, the circulation of French and English newspapers together grew to a level of more than 5.7 million in 1989 before a recession took its toll and an explosion of other forms...
Some newspaper front pages are truly evocative and may be remembered as part of the significant historical events they reported, like the ones covering events such as Pearl Harbor, the Watergate ...
This historical newspaper features full-page images of the newspaper pages as they were published, including the advertisements. It is digitized at the page-level and is fully searchable by keyword. It covers the period of 1883-2010.
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Oct 29, 2024 · newspaper, a publication and form of mass communication and mass media usually issued daily, weekly, or at other regular times that provides news, views, features, and other information of public interest and that often carries advertising. Forerunners of the modern newspaper include the Acta diurna (“daily acts”) of ancient Rome—posted ...
