HISTORY OF 

PRINTED MEDIA  

Newspaper

The first regularly (weekly) published newspaper emerged in Paris in 1631, and others popped up in Florence, Rome, and Madrid over the next few decades. While radio, television, and online news serve that function for most people now, newspapers were the first mass medium to collect and disseminate such information. In more than a hundred years, big cities like London and Paris have had about two hundred newspapers including being published daily, weekly and interval from other days. Newspaper, as we know newspapers are a source of information in the country or abroad providing coverage on events, current issues and news.

Timeline of Events in Newspaper  Publishing

1690s	First newspaper in North America in Boston. Banned after the first issue.
1704s	The Boston News-Letter is the first newspaper published regularly.
1721s- 1729s	Benjamin Franklin publishes New England Courant and runs the Pennsylvania Gazette.
1784s	The first daily newspaper is published in the United States.
1833s	Founder of the New York Sun, changes the pricing, distribution, and content of newspapers
1848s- 1955s	The Associated Press was formed and The Village Voice is published
1980s	The Columbus Dispatch is the first newspaper to publish content online.
1982s	USA Today is launched to challenges newspaper standing
1998s	An online gossip The Drudge Report

  

Magazine

Although newspapers were the first record of daily life in the United States, magazines were the first national mass media, reaching individuals in the late 1700s and 1800s throughout the growing nation. The growth and spread of print as a mass medium took hundreds of years, which seems like an eternity when compared to the spread of audiovisual media.

Timeline of Events in Magazine Publishing

Early 1800s.	The number of magazines increases to about one hundred in circulation by 1825
1828.- 1850s	The first women’s magazine, Ladies’ Magazine, is founded and marks the beginning of the trend toward targeting women as a distinct audience.
1865.	The Nation is published, which focuses on political opinion and caters toward a more educated and liberal readership.
1879–early 1900s.	These changes attract more advertisers, which allows magazine publishers to drop the price per issue below what it actually costs to produce the magazine
1900–1960.	Magazines play a key role in providing in-depth coverage of the World Wars and start to cover the cultural revolutions of the 1960s when they run into new challenges
1960s and 1970s	As television explodes as the new mass medium of choice, national magazines lose advertisers to the new audiovisual medium.
1970s–present day.	Magazines adapt by becoming more specialized, trying to appeal more to niche rather than general-interest audiences.