10. The Belfast News Letter
It started in 1737, Joy’s Entry in
Belfast, an age where ink was very special and prints had to be taken
with tedious maneuvers and tricks. This then was a riskier attempt of
printing daily news on paper with an equal opportunity of failure, but
as time grew and the newspaper gained audience it was significantly
easier to operate the publication on a larger margin and thus we see its
publication still active to this current day. The News Letter is
Northern Ireland’s regular newspaper printed form Monday to Saturday and
the content discussed is generally unionist.
9. Wiener Zeitung
Europe’s most famous, this newspaper
belongs to Austria and it is still in publication today. In the
beginning this newspaper was used as a formal news platform by the
Government of the Republic of Austria under the name of Wiennerisches Diarium
and its first issue was printed on August 8, 1703. This newspaper
contained the usual regular news around the country, government
announcements to the public, news about weddings and events, obituaries,
analysis of the Imperial court and the original domestic news was left
to the unlucky drummer who banged his instrument and announced the news.
8. London Gazette
It began its life on November 7, 1665
during the Great Plague of London, under the name Oxford Gazette and
people at that time were not willing to read or touch this newspaper
because of the fear of a deadly contamination. When the plague was over
and the King back in London, all was well and the countrywide
publication was ordered and since then it’s still active to this current
day. London Gazette discusses public interests, regional news,
announcements, sports, entertainment and other special news.
7. Merkuriusz Polski Ordynaryjny
This is Poland’s first sheet of paper to
bear any writing or news ever to be printed in 1661. At that time,
resources were scarce, people were poor, and so King John Casimir and
his wife took notice and sponsored the publication of the newspaper.
This newspaper was published weekly and contained news from all over
Poland, European sovereign affairs and politics, commercial reforms and
military information. The king, as rumored got carried away with his
superior political ideas which led to the departure of this good old
newspaper.
6. Haarlems Dagblad
It began in Haarlem, Netherlands in
the year 1656, as one of the oldest newspaper to date. For some
unexplained reasons this newspaper was so good in content and style that
many competitors imitated it so authorities took notice and changed its
name to De Oprechte Haerlemse Courant (whatever THAT means)
and it was again very popular and succeeded many English newspapers
because of its content clarity. The Germans in the Second World War
occupied Netherlands which resulted in the newspaper merging with
Haarlems Dagblad , hence the name.
5. Post- och Inrikes Tidningar
A government newspaper belonging to
Sweden served as the official platform for news, announcements, critical
information, bankruptcy news, auctions and advertising. Queen Christina
and Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna in 1645 came up with the idea of
producing a regular medium to work as a long running public channel. The
process worked when every postmaster around Sweden wrote about
the narrations and events they heard and all these notes then became a
lengthy newspaper. Since January 1 2007 this newspaper turned digital
because the owner saw no promising future and said that it was a
“cultural disaster”.
4. La Gazette
La Gazette or more precisely Gazette de
France was a French newspaper or some reported it as a magazine back in
1631, an age of drastic revolutions and mayhem. Nouvelles à la main
or hand written notes were used to document and circulate the news all
around France which quickly became a tedious and a chaotic medium of a
news channel, but then this newspapers came along and changed everything
especially one particular division of French royalists used it
frequently to address their interests and policies. This newspaper was
discontinued in 1915.
3. Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c.
The very first Dutch newspaper ever to
be printed successfully and retained its populace for quite some time
between the years 1618 and 1629. Its first regular weekly print came out
in 1618 in Amsterdam, the capital city of Netherlands. The header or
the name of the publisher and other reference is not available for this
newspaper because at that time none of this related information was
printed on the newspaper itself, but later judging from the news
published in it people have come closer to its roots, but still it was a
very old single sheet of quality news ever printed in history.
2. Avisa Relation oder Zeitung
It was 1609 in Wolfenbüttel, Germany,
the age of Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation when this periodical
came out to the public which contained news from around the globe,
government news, changing policies and other political discussions.
Lucas Schulte was the man responsible for this newspaper, but whoever it
may be I would certainly love to hold this piece of paper, I mean 1609!
Damn! That’s old
1. The Relation
The World Association of Newspapers battled to place the world first newspaper on stand between The Relation and Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, and the winner was The Relation which actually was called “Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien”. Entire
credit goes to Johann Carolus for bringing in such an invention, an
invention that meant shaping the public interests, announcing the
country’s reforms, awareness about the changing world and so on. This
newspaper is in a German Language and dates back to 1605 in Strasbourg
during the era of the Holy Roman Empire.
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