2. Rome
• Earliest known journalistic product
“Acta Diurna”
• News sheet circulated
• Ancient Rome
• Published daily from 59 BCE
• Hung in prominent places
• Recorded important social and political
events
3. China
• A court circular called a “Bao”, or “Report”
• Issued to government officials
• Tang dynasty (7th to 10th centuries, CE)
• More or less continued to the end of the Qing
dynasty in 1911 (in some variation or the
other)
4. And In The Modern Age
• First regularly published newspapers appeared
in German cities and in Antwerp (Belgium)
about 1609
• First English newspaper “Weekly Newes”
• Published in 1622
• One of the first daily newspapers, The Daily
Courant, appeared in 1702
5. To Free or Not To Free
At first hindered by government-
imposed censorship, taxes, and other
restrictions, newspapers in the 18th century
came to enjoy the reportorial freedom and
indispensable function that they have retained
to the present day
6. Why did newspapers’ circulations
increase?
• Growing literacy
• Increased production of newspapers due to
advancements in printing technology
7. Magazines
• First magazines appeared in 17th centuries
• Featured opinion-forming articles on current
affairs
• Two Early Magazines -
– Tatler (1709–11)
– Spectator (1711–12)
8. More Magazines
In 1830s
• Cheap Mass Circulated Magazines (aimed at
the wider, less well-educated public)
• Illustrated Women’s Magazines
9. Coming of the News Agencies
• News gathering was costly and so various
News Agencies came up
• The News Agencies gathered news from all
over the world in a professional manner and
sold it to individual newspapers and
magazines
10. More Technology
• The Radio and the Telegraph were the new
technologies that came up in the 19th century
and due to this, there was a great increase in
the speed and timeliness of journalistic
activity
• Now, news gathering was not just writing
skills; it also meant how quick one was and
how timely one was
11. The Internet
• In the late 20th century, satellites and later
the Internet were used for the long-distance
transmission of journalistic information
