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News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony o
An American girl holding The Washington Post newspaper about the first Moon landing – Apollo 11, July 21, 1969
Woodcut by Tommaso Garzoni depicting a town crier with a trumpet
Reproduction of Kaiyuan Za Bao court newspaper from the Tang dynasty
Some European postal routes in 1563
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A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fiel
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…as influenced its content. Throughout history, people have transported new information through oral means. Having developed in China over centuries, newspapers became established in Europe during the early modern period. In the 20th century, radio and television became important means of transmitting news…
Front page of the newspaper The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918
Konrad Adenauer reading the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung issue of 7 August 1961
Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper
Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840