They mostly carried news from Britain and content relied on the editor’s pursuits. In 1783, the Pennsylvania Evening Post became the primary American every day.

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People coming house from work increasingly turned on the TV as an alternative of opening a newspaper, and afternoon papers in the 1950s and 1960s saw their circulations plunge and earnings dry up. Television also captured increasingly more of the promoting revenue that newspapers had relied on. While paid readership of print newspapers has been steadily declining within the developed OECD nations, it has been rising in the chief creating nations , whose paid every day circulation exceeded these of the developed nations for the primary time in 2008...

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Post- och Inrikes Tidningar was first revealed in Sweden in 1645, and is the oldest newspaper still in existence, though it now publishes solely on-line. Opregte Haarlemsche Courant from Haarlem, first published in 1656, is the oldest paper still printed. It was forced to merge with the newspaper Haarlems Dagblad in 1942 when Germany occupied the Netherlands. Since then the Haarlems Dagblad has appeared with the subtitle Oprechte Haerlemse Courant 1656.

The historical past of Middle Eastern newspapers goes back to the nineteenth century. Many editors were not only journalists but in addition writers, philosophers and politicians. With unofficial journals, these intellectuals inspired public discourse on politics within the Ottoman and Persian Empires...