Show press progress the earliest attempts to circulate news we are told were in ancient rome and peking china in rome the dally daily events acta was published from earl early y days 0 of the empire until its fall all in A D and besides its general was used as a medium of communication between military officers and their armies th peking news abing pas Is a monthly publication founded early in the sixth century tor for the purpose ot of making known the imperial edicts and other official news early in the seventh century the peking gazette appeared and both ot of these thebe chinese pa pers are still published today to day the germans began printing newspapers I soon after the invention of printing these papers were generally in the form of a letter some copies are still in existence and these copies contain news of 0 the discovery of america the surrender of grenada king ferdinand and queen isabella of spain and such local occurrences as earthquakes executions and witch burnings in the sixteenth century an official newspaper issued in venice contained accounts of battles and other matters of public interest this paper was widely circulated and originally sold tor for a small coin called a gazetta gazett all in time the paper came to be called gazetta or gazette a name which Is still used newspapers have continued to progress down through the years till we have the huge papers of today with their millions ot of news items ot of crime politics and many other things gathered from the lour four corners of the world in fact the I 1 letters in the word news stand tor for I 1 worth north east west and south |