The document discusses the history and evolution of newspapers. It describes how newspapers originated from government announcement bulletins carved on stone in ancient Rome. It traces the development of newspapers from handwritten news sheets in China in the 2nd century AD to the first daily newspapers in Europe in the early 17th century. The document also discusses the impact of new technologies like the printing press and advances in printing during the Industrial Revolution that helped make newspapers cheaper and more widely accessible.

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8. The Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. of 1618 is also considered by some to be the first modern newspaper since the Relation looks more like a book than what is now considered a newspaper . Newspaper The newspaper Opregte Haarlemsche Courant from Haarlem , first published in 1656, is considered by some to be the oldest continuously published newspaper, though it was forced to merge with the newspaper Haarlems Dagblad in 1942 by the German occupier. Since then the Haarlems Dagblad appears with the subtitle Oprechte Haerlemse Courant 1656 and considers itself to be the oldest still-publishing newspaper in the world.

13. the World Association of Newspapers recognizes Johann Carolus ’s Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien , (Collection of all distinguished and commemorable news). published in 1605, as the world’s first newspaper . Newspaper

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51. User Generated Content A new aspect of this year‟s study was a review of whether newspaper websites accepted user generated content or not. For the purposes of the study, we looked at 3 major types of content: user generated video, articles, and photos. Of these three content types photos were the most widely used in 2008 with 58 % of websites offering this %percent offered user generated articles.

54. Registration The number of newspaper websites requiring registration to view content has dropped considerably since 2007 from 29 % to only 11 % in 2008. While most every site strongly suggests registration, only 11 % of newspaper websites restrict articles and features to non-registered users. The sites that require registration include many of the newspapers in the upper quartile such as The Wall Street Journal, the nation‟s second highest selling newspaper, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Arizona Republic the tenth. While these sites still require registration they are all free of charge.

55. Blogs Since 2007 the number of newspaper websites with reporter blogs has stayed the same. An overwhelming majority of newspaper websites (95 %) have continued to feature reporter blogs.

56. Online Advertising Every newspaper the study examined featured some sort of online advertising. Indeed, 100% of newspapers provided some form of contextual advertising, similar to Google Adwords. 43 % of newspaper websites used interstitial advertising.

57. Tags Newspapers continue to not use tags to organize content on their websites. In 2008, only nine percent of newspapers had article tagging on their websites.

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83. THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPERS WERE EXAMINED DURING OUR RESEARCH. CIRCULATION DATA WAS OBTAINED FROM THE AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS.