Hutton, The Early Black Press, ix-xvii. According to the autobiography, the Sun refused to print it without a fee, telling him that the Sun shines for all white men only. His Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick, intended as a monthly series, was immediately stopped by the governor of Massachusetts. News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700-1860s. The oldest continuously published weekly paper was the official Swedish gazette, the Post-och Inrikes Tidningar; begun in 1645, it adopted an Internet-only format in 2007. commuter papers. Hodges, Willis. the most significant African-American newspaper before the Civil War, Why was the creation of wire services so significant to the news business. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1993. Littlefield and Parins, American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers, 425-26; Danky and Hady, Native American Periodicals, xv. At the beginning of the century, journalism in cities was dominated by the political and mercantile press, which tended to cater to particular groups of elite readers. 51, No. WebThe Southern Californian began in July, 1854, and an all Spanish paper, El Clamor Publico, began competing for Spanish-speaking readers in June 1855. This brings the continuous publication of the weekly Connecticut Courant (now the daily Hartford Courant) from December 3, 1764 to today into perspective. This doesnt mean you should completely ignore all the rest of the pages in the newspaper, but you may want to start on page three and then look at the other pages of the paper to see what else you find, such as advertising. 2. Newspaper Headlines If you have used newspapers in any way while researching your family history, it is possible that you have wasted some of that valuable research time, especially when it comes to those newspapers published in the latter half of the 1800s in small towns and other rural areas. In October, a University of Warwick headline said: Eat Out to Help Out scheme drove new COVID-19 infections up by between 8 and 17%. The first French dailyLe Journal de Pariswas not started until 1777; and although the Revolution of 1789 brought a temporary upsurge in newspaper publishing, with 350 papers being issued in Paris alone, the return to monarchy brought another clampdown. After 1691, improvements in the postal system made daily publication practical, the first attempt at doing so being the single-sheet Daily Courant (170235), which consisted largely of extracts from foreign corantos. These newspapers then became papers of record for the communities they served. The masthead might also identify other personnel associated with the newspaper, such as the editor. 1803 in the United States Nerone, John. The Form of News: A History. Instead of being subsidized by political parties, they began operating independently and targeting new audiences.