Show BIRTH OF THE NEWSPAPER in the century there arose the most powerful modern manifestations fe of printing the newspaper and the magazine the worlds first printed newspaper was published in germany about the year 1612 the f first printed newspaper appeared in england in 1622 and the first printed publication li of this character made its appearance in france in 1731 handwritten hand written single copies of news letters the forerunners of these early printed newspapers made their appearance in the early days of the one I 1 the first of them reporting the ll 11 lc lcovert covery overy by columbus of the west est indies until the story of the columbus discovery was later printed the f fact act was known to only a few hundred people the first printed sheet to be published as a newspaper in america appeared in boston on september 25 1690 that news sheet was benjamin harris occurrences because he did not have the proper license the sheet was suppressed by the british colonial government as soon as the first issue appeared americas first regularly published newspaper was the BOSTON NEWS LETTER it began publication as a weekly on april 24 1704 and continued until 1776 on january 24 1775 benjamin ane converted his philadelphia awne L ening Post and daily advertiser into americas Arne ricas first daily newspaper As the result of the gutenberg invention thousands of newspapers papers have followed in the footsteps of these pioneers exerting a vast influence on politics economics and social life |