Show BEFORE DAYS OF PRINTING r first newspapers shed in eng t land were wr aten i the earliest english newspapers were not printed but simply written for the benefit of 0 those who wished to consult them they were exhibited in a public place each reader being called upon to pay a small coin called i a gazetta hence the word gazette the earliest english newspaper was the weekly news first published in 1622 in the seventeenth century several newspapers were established and in the eighteenth century we had the famous spectator and allied publications of the sort the first dally daily aelred in 1792 it ts is also interest log ing to note that the first serial story was robinson crusoe which began to run in the london post on oci oct 1 7 1719 and concluded on oct 19 1720 |