which is britains oldest sunday newspaper published for the first time in 1791
The Observer
title: History of British newspapers text: In 1761 the "North Briton" came out and it was largely a result of its publisher, John Wilkes, and his campaign for increased freedom of the press that, in 1772 the right to publish parliamentary reports was established. "The Observer", first published on 4 December 1791, was the world's first Sunday newspaper. By the early 19th century, there were 52 London papers and over 100 other titles. As stamp, paper and other duties were progressively reduced from the 1830s onwards (all duties on newspapers were gone by 1855) there was a massive growth in overall circulation as major events and title: Today (UK newspaper) text: Today (UK newspaper) Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. "Today", with the American newspaper "USA Today" as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established "Daily Mail" and "Daily Express". It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce photographs in black and white. The colour was initially crude, produced title: Today (UK newspaper) text: Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain". Today (UK newspaper) Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. "Today", with the American newspaper "USA Today" as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established "Daily Mail" and "Daily Express". It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce title: History of newspaper publishing text: History of newspaper publishing The modern newspaper is a European invention. The oldest direct ancestors of the modern newspaper were the handwritten news sheets that circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were filled with information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1609. Typically they were heavily censored by the government and reported only foreign news, and current prices. After the English government relaxed censorship in 1695, newspapers flourished in London and a few other cities including Boston and Philadelphia. By the 1830s title: History of British newspapers text: of newspapers published in London alone had increased to 53. "The News Letter" is one of Northern Ireland's main daily newspapers, published Monday to Saturday. It is the oldest English-language general daily newspaper still in publication in the world, having first been printed in 1737. Originally published three times weekly, it became daily in 1855. The 18th century saw the gradual development of the purely political journal side-by-side with those papers which were primarily devoted to news, domestic and foreign, and commerce. It was left to Steele and Addison to develop the social side of journalism in their respective papers.