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The History of Newspapers

The history of newspapers is an interesting chapter which takes us five centuries back. When newspapers were like newsletters and were handwritten to start with in europe. It gave informations on most of the happenings of that time from the war, economic status and all social customs with human interests. The newspaper printing first appeared in Germany in the late 1400 in forms of newslatter or pamphlets. The first newspaper was published in germany by Johann Carolus called “Collection of all distinguished and commemorable news”.

For those who spoke english then, the newspapers were published only when some important event occurred. The first successively published title was The Weekly Newes of 1622 in english and then came many others.

As the centuries past by the newspaper printing became more popular and by 17th century there were more newspapers bieng published and with different content in different places and societies.

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One of the most successful newspapers is The Times found by John Walter in 1785 which was the Daily Universal, and now owned by Rupert Murdoch or News International which also launched another longer version ()  in 1864 but only came under common ownership in 1966 although The Times and The Sunday Times are both owned by Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp, they did not share the same staff but have the same owner since 1967.

The Times’ average  for November 2005 show that The Times sold 692,581 copies per day which shows how much succesful it can be later.

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