This slideshow gives information about very first newspaper of different countries and of different languages. It also provide brief history of early newspaper and how newspaper got started in the first place.

2. • Newspapers began circulating in the 17th
century.
• The first real newspaper in England was
printed in 1665.
• The first successful daily newspaper in Britain
was printed in 1702.
• The first American newspaper was printed in
1690. It was called Publick Occurrences Both
Forreign and Domestick.
• The first newspaper in Canada was the Halifax
Gazette in 1752.
• The first daily American newspaper was
published in 1784

4. • Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the
Original Calcutta General
Advertiser was an English
language weekly newspaper
published in Kolkata (then
Calcutta),
• It was the first newspaper
printed in Asia, and was
published for two years.
• Founded by James Augustus
Hicky.
• The newspaper was important
for its provocative journalism
well before its time and its fight
for free expression in India.

5. • Jam-e Jam had its first
issue on 29 April 2000.
It is published by
Islamic Republic of Iran
Broadcasting (IRIB),
• Bijan Moghaddam is
director and editor in
chief and Akbar
Yaghoobi is public
relation manager of the
newspaper
• The paper focuses on
cultural and social news

6. • Maulavi Muhammad Baqar :
Founder of 'Dehli Urdu
Akhbar' ,
• Dehli Urdu Akhbar was Delhi’s
first Urdu newspaper.
Newspapers that had existed
in Delhi prior to this – the
Sultanul Akhbar, the Sirajul
Akhbar and the Sadiqul
Akhbar were all in Persian.
• In 1857, as the revolt spread
around north India, Baqar
changed the name of his
newspaper from Dehli Urdu
Akhbar to Akhbar-uz Zafar
from July 12, 1857.

7. • Zamindar was an Indian Muslim
newspaper in the Urdu language.
• The founding editor of this
newspaper was Maulana Zafar Ali
Khan, a poet, intellectual, writer,
Muslim nationalist and a supporter
of All India Muslim League's
Pakistan Movement.
• Zamindar newspaper was the
mouthpiece of Indian Muslims,
Muslim Nationalists and the
Pakistan Movement during the
1920s, 1930s and 1940s
• It was the most popular
newspaper of Muslims of India
and played a key role in crafting
the journalistic traditions of
Pakistan and the Urdu language

8. • Aag (Lucknow)
• Roznama Asia Express
(Aurangabad, Marathwada)
• Udaan (Jammu and Kashmir)
• Merawatan
• (Urdu newspaper published from
New Delhi and circulated in the
State of UP, Uttarakhand, Jammu
Kashmir and Haryana)
• Sangam (Bihar and Jharkhand)

9. • Asia Times(Urdu news portal)
• Paigam Madre Watan(Urdu newspaper
published in Delhi)
• Daur-e-Jadeed (Delhi, Bihar, and
Jharkhand)
• Hindustan Urdu Daily (Aurangabad)
• Roznama Urdu (Lucknow)
• Hakikat Times (Muzaffarpur, Bihar)
• Teesri Duniya (Jammu)
• Shohrat (Srinagar)

11. • The first French
newspaper, Gazette
(afterwards called the
Gazette de France).
• The first editor and
printer was
Théophraste Renaudot.
The first weekly edition
appeared in May 1631.
• It had many prominent
contributors and in
1790 its circulation rose
rapidly and reached a
peak of 13,000 copies.

13. • The Vedomosti was the first
newspaper printed in Russia.
• It was established by Peter the
Great's ukase dated 16
December 1702. The first issue
appeared on 2 January 1703.
• Originally, the newspaper was
published at the Print Yard in
Kitai-gorod, Moscow. In 1710,
engravings were introduced by
way of decoration.
• The circulation fluctuated from
several dozen copies to four
thousand. In 1719, the
newspaper contained 22 pages.
• These early issues of the
Vedomosti — of which only a
fraction survives — were
reprinted in 1855.

15. • The Arab newspapers industry started
in the early 19th century with the
American newspaper Kawkab America.
(Arabic: ‫كوكب‬‫أميركا‬ , 'Star of America')
was an Arabic-language weekly (later
daily) newspaper published in New York
City, United States, it was the first
Arabic-language newspaper in North
America
• It was founded by Najib Arbeely and
Ibrahim Arbeely.[1] between 1892 and
1908.
• Politically, Kawkab America was highly
supportive of Ottoman rule (at least
during its early years)
• However, according to an 1898 article
in the New York Times, Kawkab America
represented the Young Turks Party in
the United States and condemned
repression against Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire