The newspaper appeared as a result of a person’s need for information. However, the prerequisites for the emergence of newspaper business arose much earlier than the print media themselves. This is literacy, the advent of the printing press, and the development of civilization as a whole.
The need for news exchange
Long before writing arose, people had a need to exchange news. In cities and villages there were special people who announced around birth, death, and other life incidents. Later in ancient Rome there were prototypes of handwritten newspapers - acta. With their help, the Romans received information about events in their country. There were also newsletters in China.
It is worth saying that by the end of the 15th century book printing already existed. This was facilitated by the advent of the printing press in Italy. In turn, newspapers were published, though handwritten. Such they remained until the end of the 16th century. Basically, their functioning fell on Italy, in places there were handwritten newspapers in Germany. There were even special people responsible for writing news, the so-called "news scribes."
As the story goes, the first printed newspaper appeared in Venice in the early 16th century. Prior to this, there were weekly manuscripts and special people called “avizotori” in the country who specialized in writing news articles.
However, in the form in which modern readers are used to seeing a newspaper, the French introduced it to the world. This happened on May 30, 1631. The print edition was called "La Newspaper". It was released in the amount of thousands of copies. The copyright holder of La Gazeta was Renodo.
However, the palm of the print newspaper belongs to Germany. As early as 1609, the Strasbourg newspaper Relation: Aller Furnemmen appeared. Its publisher and typographer was Johann Carolus. It is worth saying that the exact year of publication of this newspaper is unknown.
