1. NEWSPAPERS
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2. A newspaper is a regularly scheduled
publication containing news, information,
and advertising, usually printed on relatively
inexpensive, low-grade paper (newsprint).

3. Newspapers typically publish:
• stories on local and national political events and
personalities, crime, business, entertainment,
society and sports;
• an editorial page;
• reviews of movies, plays and restaurants;
• advice, food and other columns;
• advertising, comic strips;
• entertainment features such as crosswords,
sudoku and horoscopes;
• weather news and forecasts.

4. Criteria:
• Publicity
• Periodicity
• Currency
• Universality

5. History
• Ancient Rome: Acta Diurna
(government announcement
bulletins).
• China: Tipao (news sheets) ,
the Kaiyuan Za Bao ("Bulletin
of the Court").
• 1556, Venice, the monthly
Notizie scritte.
• - not intended for the
general public and restricted
to a certain range of topics.

6. • 1605, Strasbourg, Relation
aller Fürnemmen und
gedenckwürdigen Historien,
the first newspaper.
• 1620, Amsterdam, Corrant out
of Italy, Germany, etc., the
first English-language
newspaper.
• 1645, Sweden, Post- och
Inrikes Tidningar, the oldest
newspaper still in existence,
now online.
• 1656, Haarlem, Opregte
Haarlemsche Courant, the
oldest paper still printed.
• 1702 – 1735, the first
successful English daily, The
Daily Courant.

7. Industrial Revolution
• 1814, London, The
Times acquired a printing
press capable of making
1,100 impressions per
minute.
• Soon, it was adapted to
print on both sides of a
page at once.
• In France, Émile de
Girardin started "La
Presse" in 1836,
introducing cheap,
advertising-supported
dailies to France.

8. Impact of television and Internet
• By the late 1990s - a
general decline in profits.
• Many newspapers
around the world
launched online editions.
• On April 10, 1995, The
American Reporter
became the first daily
newspaper, with its own
paid reporters around the
world, to start on the
Internet. The site is
owned by 400 journalists.

9. • By 2007 there were 6580 daily
newspapers in the world selling 395
million copies a day.
• After 2008 the rapid growth of web-based
alternatives, caused a serious decline in
advertising and circulation, many papers
closed.

10. Categories
• Daily
• Weekly
• National
• International
• Online
• Customized

11. Organization and personnel
• publisher
• editorial, production/printing, circulation, and
advertising departments
• editor(editor-in-chief, executive editor)
• proofreaders and fact-checkers
• reporters are journalists
• photographers and graphic artists
• columnists
• printers
• circulation department

12. Format
• Broadsheets
• Tabloids
• Berliner or Midi

13. Advertising
• The portion of the newspaper that is not
advertising is called editorial content,
editorial matter, or simply editorial.

14. Journalism
• Since newspapers began as a journal
(record of current events), the profession
involved in the making of newspapers
began to be called journalism.
• yellow journalism

15. The World’s First Newspaper

16. The first Russian Newspaper

18. NP on the Internet