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Name : Solanki Binita M.Roll No : 04Paper No : 15Subject : Mass Communication and Media Studies.Course: M.A., Semester: 4.P.G. Enrollment No : PG13101031. Year :2014-2015.Email ID: [email protected] to : Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.
(Department of English).
Topic: History of News paper.
History of The News Paper.
The history of newspapers is an often-dramatic chapter of the human experience going back some five centuries.
In Renaissance Europe handwritten newsletters circulated privately among merchants, passing along information about everything from wars and economic conditions to social customs and "human interest" features.
The first true newspaper in English was the London Gazette of 1666
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The first newspaper in Portugal, A Gazeta da Restauração, was published in 1641 in Lisbon.
The first Spanish newspaper, Gaceta de Madrid was published in 1661.
The first newspaper in France was published in 1631, La Gazette (originally published as Gazette de France)
History of Indian News Paper.
The first newspaper in India was published by James Hicky in January 1780.
The size of that four-page newspaper was 12"x8".
Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Calcutta General Advertiser was the first English-language newspaper, and indeed the first printed newspaper, to be published in the Indian sub-continent.
It was a weekly newspaper, and was founded on January 29, 1780, in Calcutta, the capital of British India. The paper ceased publication on March 23, 1782.
The newspaper soon became very famous not only among the British soldiers posted in India at that time, it also inspired the Indians to write newspapers of their own.
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Sr. No Newspaper Name Readership
numbers
1 Dainik Jagran 54,254,000
2 Dainik Bhasker 33,432,000
3 Hindustan (local) 29,411,000
4 Amar Ujala 28,720,000
5 Lokmat 23,276,000
6 Daily Thanti 20,305,000
7 Dinakaran 16,741,000
8 Ananda Bazar Patrika 15,318,000
9 Eenadu 14,726,000
10 Rajasthan Patrika 14,205,000
11 The Times of India 13,447,000
12 Hindustan Times 6,254,000
13 The Hindu 5,140,000
14 The Telegraph 2,877,000
15 Deccan Chronicle 2,816,000
Top 15 Newspapers in India
