A Newspaper Timeline

Post- och Inrikes Tidningar (Sweden)1645
Haarlems Dagblad (Netherlands)1656
La Gazzetta di Mantova (Italy)1664
The London Gazette (UK)1665
Wiener Zeitung (Austria)1703
Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)1705
Worcester Journal (UK)1709
The Newcastle Journal (UK)1711
The Stamford Mercury (UK)1712
The Northampton Mercury (UK)1720
Hanauer Anzeiger (Germany)1725
Lloyd’s List (UK)1734
The Belfast News Letter (N. Ireland)1737
Feuille d’Avis de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)1738
Darmstaedter Tageblatt (Germany)1740
Press & Journal (UK)1747
Berlingske Tidende (Denmark)1749
Giessener Anzeiger (Germany)1750
Leeuwarder Courant (Netherlands)1752
The Yorkshire Post (UK)1754
La Gazzetta di Parma (Italy)1755
Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant (Netherlands)1758
Norrköpings Tidningar (Sweden)1758
Saarbrücker Zeitung (Germany)1761
Schaumburger Zeitung (Germany)1761
24 heures/Feuille d’Avis de Lausanne (Switz)1762
Hersfelder Zeitung (Germany)1763
The Hartford Courant (USA)1764
Lippische Landeszeitung (Germany)1766
Aalborg Stiftstidende (Denmark)1767
Adresseavisen (Norway)1767
Feuille d’Yverdon (Switzerland)1773
The Gazette (Canada)1778Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland)1780
Golarsche Zeitung (Germany)1783
Northampton Daily Hampshire Gazette (USA)1786
The Times of London (UK)1788
The Berkshire Eagle (USA)1789
Zwolse Courant (Netherlands)1790
The Observer (UK)1791Tauber-Zeitung (Germany)1791
Jeversche Wochenblatt (Germany)1791
Norwich Bulletin (USA)1791
Greenfield Recorder (USA)1792
Rutland Herald (USA)1794
Thurgauer Zeitung (Switzerland)1798
Gazette de Lausanne (Switzerland)1798
Keene Sentinel (USA)1799
Nijmeegs Dagblad (Netherlands)1800
Bote vom Unter-Main (Germany)1803
Charleston Post and Courier (USA)1803
The Bedford Gazette (USA)1805
Schleswig-Holst. Landeszeitung (Germany)1807
Concord Monitor (USA)1808
Solinger Tageblatt (Germany)1809
Carmarthen Journal (Wales)1810
New Haven Register (USA)1812
Mobile Register (USA)1813
Göteborgs Posten (Sweden1813
Arnhemse Courant (Netherlands)1814
Le Journal de la Corse (France)1815
Cellesche Zeitung (Germany)1817
Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung (Germany)1818
Westfälischer Anzeiger (Germany)1822
The Bombay Samachar (India)1822
Abo Underrättelser (Finland)1824
Cannstatter Zeitung (Germany)1824
Union-News & Sunday Republican (USA)1824
Kennebec Journal (USA)1825
El Peruano (Peru)1825
Le Figaro (France)1826
El Mercurio de Valparaíso (Chile)1827
Stamford Advocate (USA)1829
Providence Journal (USA)1829
Aftonbladet (Sweden)1830
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)1831
The Gleaner (Jamaica)1834
Açoriano Oriental (Portugal)1835
Kalamazoo Gazette (USA)1837The Tuam Herald (Ireland)1837
The Times-Picayune (USA)1839
The Geelong Advertiser (Australia)1840
The (Tasmania) Examiner (Australia)1842
The Plain Dealer (USA)1845
Straits Times (Singapore)1845
The Herald (South Africa)1845
The Witness (South Africa)1846
The Age (Australia)1854
The Daily Telegraph (UK)1855
The Sacremento Bee (USA)1857
Atuagagdliutit (Greenland)1861
The Northern Scot (Scotland)1870
The Daily Californian (USA)1871
The Salt Lake Tribune (USA)1871
The Mainichi Shimbun (Japan)1872
The Bay City Times (USA)1873
Diario de Noticias - Madeira (Portugal)1876
Cape Times (South Africa)1876
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)1878
The Hindu (India)1878
Asahi Shimbun (Japan)1879
The Ohio State Lantern (USA)1881
The International Herald Tribune (USA)1887
The Financial Times (UK)1888
The Alpine Avalanche (USA)1891

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World Newspaper History

59 B.C. Acta Diurna is published in Rome. Julius Caesar orders the major political and social events of the day to be made available to his citizenry. State appointed reporters, called “actuarii”, gather information on everything from wars and legal decisions to births, deaths, and marriages.

713 Mixed News in Kaiyuan is first newspaper published in China. “Kaiyuan” is the name given to the year in which the paper is published.

1040 In China, Pi Sheng invents printing from movable woodblocks.

1392 Movable copper type is invented in Korea.

1447 Johann Gutenberg invents letterpress printing, a process that will enable the mass production of the printed word.

1501 Pope Alexander VI decreed that printed material must be submitted to clerical authority prior to publication in order to prevent heresy. Failure to do so could result in fines or excommunication.

1556 Venetian government publishes Notizie scritte, a monthly newspaper for which readers pay a “gazetta”, or small coin.

1588 In Cologne, Germany, Michael Entzinger publishes a 24 page newsbook reporting on the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The newsbook’s front page shows a woodcut representing the Spanish Armada sailing off the coast of England. Although the report came months after the actual event occurred, this is one of the earliest “first reports” of a significant historical event.

1605 Johann Carolus publishes the first printed newspaper, Relation, in Strasbourg, now in France but at the time a part of the so-called ’Deutsches Reich’.

1621 In London, the newspaper Corante is published.

1631 The Gazette, the first French newspaper, is founded.

1639 First American colonial printing press

1645 World’s oldest newspaper still in circulation, Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, is published in Sweden

1690 Publick Occurrences is the first newspaper published in America when it appears in Boston. The editor, Benjamin Harris, stated he would issue the paper “once a month, or, if any Glut of Occurrences happen, oftener.” The royal authority, wary of publications printed without its express consent, suppresses the newspaper after only one issue.

1704 Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe and often recognized as the world’s first journalist, begins to publish the Review, a periodical covering European affairs.

1798 Alois Sedenfelder Invents Lithography. Although invented over two centuries ago, offest lithography first gained popularity in the 1960’s, and is now the industry standard.

1803 Australia’s military government publishes the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, the country’s first newspaper. This is only fifteen years after the colony of convicts had been established in Sydney Cove.

1812 Friedrich Koenig invents of the Steam Powered Cylinder Press. In 1814, John Walter, publisher of The Times in London, began to assemble the new press in secrecy, fearing that his pressmen might riot if they discovered his plans.

On the night of November 28, 1814, Walter took his pressmen away from their hand presses with the excuse that he was expecting important news from the continent. He then used Koenig’s presses to produce the entire print run of The Times -- at an output of 1,100 sheets per hour.

1844 Telegraph is invented

1851 Reuters is established

1870s Charles Stewart Parnell uses the Freeman’s Journal to promote the causes of his Irish Nationalist Party.

1880 First photographs appear in a newspaper

1900 Vladimir Lenin founds Iskra, in Leipzig, Germany. This revolutionary newspaper is to become a major tool for Communist propoganda.

1903 Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) develops the first tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mirror, in London. The Daily Mirror introduced the concept of the “exclusive” interview. The first was with Lord Minto, the new Viceroy of India, in 1905.

1966 Behram “Busybee” Contractor begins publishing his column ‘Round and About” in the Evening News of India. Running until 2001, the satirical column became the longest running column in the history of newspaper journalism.

1994 First independent on-line daily appears on the World Wide Web.

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Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such as documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by the qualities of:^{[citation needed]}

• Timeliness — the images have meaning in the context of a recently published record of events.

• Objectivity — the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict in both content and tone.

• Narrative — the images combine with other news elements to make facts relatable to the viewer or reader on a cultural level.

Like a writer, a photojournalist is a reporter but he or she must often make decisions instantly and carry photographic equipment, often while exposed to significant obstacles (physical danger, weather, crowds).

journalism

jour·nal·ism  (jûrn-lzm)

n.

1. The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts.

2. Material written for publication in a newspaper or magazine or for broadcast.

3. The style of writing characteristic of material in newspapers and magazines, consisting of direct presentation of facts or occurrences with little attempt at analysis or interpretation.

4. Newspapers and magazines.

5. An academic course training students in journalism.

6. Written material of current interest or wide popular appeal.