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The first English-language newspaper, Corrant out of Italy, Germany, etc., was published in Amsterdam in 1620. A year and a half later, Corante, or weekely newes from Italy, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Bohemia, France and the Low Countreys. was published in England by an "N.B." (generally thought to be either Nathaniel Butter or Nicholas Bourne ...
From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899 (2004) excerpt and text search; Conboy, Martin. Journalism in Britain: A Historical Introduction (2010) George Boyce, James Curran. Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1978) Handover, P. M. A History of the London Gazette, 1665-1965 ...
First newspaper in Mauritius. Published weekly from 1773-01-13 to at least 1790 by Nicolas Lambert in Mauritius. 1800 Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser: English, Afrikaans Cape Town: British South Africa: First newspaper in South Africa. Published weekly from 1800-08-16 to at least 1829 by the British Government in South Africa. 1824
"Nathaniel Butter's Weekly News was the first English newspaper which appeared duly numbered like our newspapers of the present day." [11] (The Weekly News was printed as a small quarto-sized pamphlet or booklet, in contrast to the earlier single-sheet corantos. These "newsbooks" remained the dominant form until the mid-1660s, when the more ...
The first printing press was imported from Japan for publishing Korea's first Korean-language newspaper Hansong Sunbo. After the press was destroyed by conservatives, Inoue returned with a new one from Japan, reviving the paper as a weekly under the name Hansong Chubo.
The Daily Courant, initially published on [O.S. 11 March] 1702, was the first British daily newspaper. It was produced by Elizabeth Mallet at her premises next to the King's Arms tavern at Fleet Bridge in London. [1] The newspaper consisted of a single page, with advertisements on the reverse side. [2]
Before then, single-page newspapers, called broadsides, were published in the English colonies and printed in Cambridge in 1689. The first edition of Publick Occurrences was published September 25, 1690, in Boston , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] then a city in the Dominion of New England , and was intended to be published monthly, "or, if any Glut of Occurrences ...
Benjamin Harris (fl. 1673–1716) was an English publisher, a figure of the Popish Plot in England who then moved to New England as an early journalist. He published the New England Primer, the first textbook in British America, and edited the first multi-page newspaper there, Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, from 25 September 1690.