The first successively published title was The Weekly Newes of 1622. In the English-speaking world, the earliest predecessors of the newspaper were corantos, small news pamphlets produced only when some event worthy of notice occurred. Some of the most famous of these report the atrocities against Germans in Transylvania perpetrated by a sadistic veovod named Vlad Tsepes Drakul, who became the Count Dracula of later folklore. The first printed forerunners of the newspaper appeared in Germany in the late 1400's in the form of news pamphlets or broadsides, often highly sensationalized in content. In Renaissance Europe handwritten newsletters circulated privately among merchants, passing along information about everything from wars and economic conditions to social customs and "human interest" features. The history of newspapers is an often-dramatic chapter of the human experience going back some five centuries. Henry Steel Commager, preface to a history of the New York Times, 1951 The Origins of Newspapers It is the raw material of history it is the story of our own times. This is what really happened, reported by a free press to a free people. Here is the living disproof of the old adage that nothing is as dead as yesterday's newspaper. Article One, Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution, 1789. abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.
I consider such vehicles of knowledge more happily calculated than any other to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry, and ameliorate the morals of a free and enlightened people.-Ĭongress shall make no law. magazines, as well as common Gazettes, might be spread through every city, town, and village in the United States. Thomas Jefferson, 1787.įor my part I entertain a high idea of the utility of periodical publications insomuch as I could heartily desire, copies of. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Newspaper History A Brief History of Newspapers A Collector Information Web Page Provided by
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