1) Newspaper Beginnings: The Start of Modern Mass Media
Newspaper Beginnings The Start of Modern Media & Journalism Modern media comes in many forms in today's world, with many around the world following the news daily, waiting for new information, whether from their home country or hometown, or tuning into one of the many international news networks abroad. However, modern media and journalism owe it to the newspaper. Beginning of Newspapers (Cover of Hickey's Bengal Gazette from March 10th, 1871) The first newspapers were published in the Holy Roman Empire (now modern Germany) in 1605 when printed pieces of paper shared mostly political and foreign news made to inform the publics of cities and towns. The modern newspaper started to gain widespread popularity in the 1700's when newspapers began to be printed and read by many not just in Europe or America but worldwide as far as India where newspapers such as Hickey's Bengal Gazette (A British Indian newspaper posted in Kolkata, also the first printed newspaper publis...