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A newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint, containing a journal of current news in a variety of topics. These topics can include political events, crime, sports, opinion, and weather.
Newspapers have also been developed around very narrow topic areas, such as news for merchants in a specific industry, fans of particular sports, fans of the arts or of specific artists, and participants in the same sorts of activities or lifestyles.
The general variety is issued every day, often with the exception of Sundays and some national holidays. Weekly newspapers, printed once a week, are also common; they tend to be smaller and less prestigious than daily papers.
Most nations have at least one newspaper that circulates throughout the whole country, but in the United States and Canada, there are few truly national newspapers, with the exception of USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Large metropolitan newspapers with expanded distribution networks such as the New York Times or Toronto's Globe and MailThe Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. The paper was founded as The Globe in 1844 by George Brown, who was later a Father of Confederation. Brown selected as the motto for the editorial page a quotatio often fill the national paper role.
The owner the newspaper, or person in charge, is the publisherA publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. Major publishing companies include AOL Time Warner, including subsidiaries Warner Books and Little, Brown ASCII Baen Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hachette Filipacchi Media Harleq. The person responsible for content is the editorEditor has four major senses: # a person who obtains or improves material for a publication; # a film editor, a person responsible for the flow of a motion picture or television program from scene to scene # a sound editor, a person responsible for the fl, editor-in-chief, or executive editor.
Regular publications have been created and distributed by governments for millennia, including Acta Diurna, a listing of events ordered by Julius CaesarAlternative meanings: Julius Caesar (disambiguation). Gaius Julius Caesar ( Latin: C·IVLIVS·C·F·C·N·CAESAR) ( July 13, 100 BC March 15, 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader whose conquest of Gallia Comata extended the Roman world all the way t in Ancient Rome in 59 B.C., and Mixed News, published in China in A.D. 713.
According to the World Association of Newspapers, the first titled English language private newspaper, The Corante, was first published in London in 1621. The first English daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, was founded by Samuel Buckley on 11 March 1702. In 1631 The Gazette, the first French newspaper, was founded. And in 1645, the oldest newspaper still in circulation, Post-och Inrikes Tidningar of Sweden, began publishing.
In 1690, Publick Occurrences in Boston became the first newspaper published in America. It was suppressed after one issue.
In 1803, just 15 years after the first British penal colony was established, Australia's military government published the Sydney Gazette and the New South Wales Advertiser, Australia's first newspapers.
1884 Otto Merganthaler invents the Linotype machine which casts type in full lines, using hot lead, a quantum leap in newspaper publishing, and issuing in the era of "hot lead." The systems remained in general production in the industry well into the 1980s, when computerized pagination became prominent.
1962 L.A. Times drives Linotype hot metal typesetters with perforated tape created from RCA computers speeding up the typesetting process. The key was development of a dictionary and method to automate the hyphenation & justification of text in columns (tasks that took up 40% of a manual operator's time).
1973 Harris introduces editing terminals. Quickly followed by Raytheon, Atex, Digital Equipment Corporation and others. Output was strips of type on film from phototpesetters ("cold type" replacing the "hot type" of Linotype machines. Atex would work with Minneapolis Star to develop the first pagination system that would allow the creation and output of full editorial pages, eliminating the need for manual paste-up of strips of film. The Atex system featured "Atex Messaging" which is widely believed to be the forerunner of both e-mail and instant messenger applications.
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