Newspaper

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Definition: a printed publication (usually issued daily or weekly) consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, feature articles, advertisements, and correspondence.

Newspapers first came into existence in London, the first is believed to have been titled the Oxford Gazette in 1665 and it later turned into the London Gazette when it was brought back into London by the king after the plague.

The first newspaper in America was called the Boston News-Letter and was first published in 1704. It mostly contained European politics and one of it's most popular stories was the tale of Blackbeard.

The New York Times is a very popular newspaper based in New York, and is right now mostly covering the election, water on Mars, and SAT news.

Newspaper of records, or newspapers of public record are usually printed by the government and is used to publish public notices. The New York Times was the first newspaper of record, designated in 1913, now the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post are all newspapers of record.

Newspapers are different than social media as they don't update constantly and take a week to get the new news, this is different than today where you just look every five seconds and something new is up.

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