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The first Spanish-language newspapers in the United States were El Misisipí and El Mensagero Luisianés, which began publication in New Orleans in 1808 and 1809. La Gaceta de Texas and El Mexicano , the first newspapers in what is now considered the Southwest, were written and typeset in Nacogdoches, Texas , but printed in Natchitoches, Louisiana , in 1813.
The French established the first newspaper in Africa in Mauritius in 1773. First newspaper in Mauritius. Published weekly from 1773-01-13 to at least 1790 by Nicolas Lambert in Mauritius. First newspaper in South Africa. Published weekly from 1800-08-16 to at least 1829 by the British Government in South Africa.
DateNewspaperLanguagePlace1605 [4]German1609 [4]German1610 [4][5]Ordinari-ZeitungGerman1615 [4]Name not given in sourceGerman- First American Newspapers
- The Partisan Era, 1780S–1830S
- The Rise of City Newspapers, 1830s–1850s
- Era of Great Editors, The 1850s
- The Civil War
- The Calm Following The Civil War
- The Arrival of The Linotype
- The Great Circulation Wars
- At Century's End
John Pory(1572–1636), an English colonist living in the Virginia colony of Jamestown, beat Archer and Bourne by a few years, submitting an account of the activities in the colony—the health of the colonists and their crops—to the English ambassador to the Netherlands, Dudley Carleton (1573–1932). By the 1680s, one-off broadsides were commonly publi...
In the early years of the United States, newspapers tended to have small circulation for several reasons. Printing was slow and tedious, so for technical reasons no one publisher could generate enormous numbers of issues. The price of newspapers tended to exclude many common people. And while Americans tended to be literate, there simply weren't th...
In the 1830s newspapers transformed into publications devoted more to news of current events than outright partisanship. As printing technology allowed faster printing, newspapers could expand beyond the traditional four-page folio. And to fill the newer eight-page newspapers, content expanded beyond letters from travelers and political essays to m...
By the 1850s the American newspaper industry came to be dominated by legendary editors, who battled for supremacy in New York, including Horace Greeley (1811–1872) of the "New-York Tribune," James Gordon Bennett (1795–1872) of the "New York Herald," and William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) of the "New York Evening Post." In 1851, an editor who had wor...
When the Civil War erupted in 1861, the newspapers, especially in the North, responded quickly. Writers were hired to follow the Union troops, following a precedent set in the Crimean War by a British citizen considered the first war correspondent, William Howard Russell(1820–1907). A staple of Civil War-era newspapers, and perhaps the most vital p...
The decades following the Civil War were relatively calm for the newspaper business. The great editors of earlier eras were replaced by editors who tended to be very professional but did not generate the fireworks that earlier newspaper reader had come to expect. The popularity of athletics in the late 1800s meant newspapers began having pages devo...
Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899) was the German-born inventor of the linotype machine, an innovative printing system that revolutionized the newspaper industry in the late 19th century. Before Mergenthaler's invention, printers had to set type one character at a time in a laborious and time-consuming process. The linotype, so-called because it set a...
In the late 1880s, the newspaper business received a jolt when Joseph Pulitzer(1847–1911), who had been publishing a successful newspaper in St. Louis, bought a paper in New York City. Pulitzer suddenly transformed the news business by focusing on news that he thought would appeal to common people. Crime stories and other sensational subjects were ...
As the 19th century ended, the newspaper business had grown enormously since the days when one-man newspapers printed hundreds, or at most thousands, of issues. Americans became a nation addicted to newspapers, and in the era before broadcast journalism, newspapers were a considerable force in public life. By the end of the 19th century, after a pe...
Sep 25, 2024 · The first issue of the Boston News-Letter, published on April 17, 1704 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Harris, for his part, was not dissuaded by the closure of Publick Occurrences .
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Oct 15, 2024 · In North America, publication of newspapers was deterred during colonial times by the long arm of the British law, but after independence the United States could boast one of the world’s least restrictive sets of laws on publication. A first attempt at publishing, albeit abortive, was made in Boston by a radical from London, Benjamin Harris ...
History of newspaper publishing. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1605.
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Apr 21, 2022 · First all-iron press manufactured in the United States, distinct with eagle décor. Prints and Photographs Division. One of the biggest jumps in newspaper press development at this time was from the flat-bed hand press (like the Columbian) to the rotary press – a machine run by steam, horses, or manpower that incorporated rotating cylinders in the printing process that skyrocketed production ...
