HISTORY OF NEWSPAPER

In the past it wasn´t easy to obtain information because the resources weren´t reliable and people often used to spread FAKE NEWS.

Then, with the arrival of writing and literacy, news reports become more reliable.

• Societies like Rome in 59 B.C. started publishing about their political happenings, trials and executions in the form of daily hand-written news sheets.
• China produced the news sheets called the TIPAO starting from 202 B.C. during the HAN dynasty.
• In 1450, Johan Guttenburg invented the first printing press and various pamphlets, newsbooks and news ballads started circulating in whole Europe.
• The first newspaper printed in England appeared in 1621.
• France produced a newspaper of its own in 1631.
• Printers in Amsterdam, were exporting weeklies in French and in English as early as 1620.
• Italy's first printed weekly appeared by 1639 .
• At the latest, Spain's by 1641.
• The oldest surviving newspaper written in English appears in Amsterdam in 1620 .
• The printed newspaper spread rapidly through Europe.