Why were the earliest periodicals and newspapers born in Germany?

Because the German Gutenberg invented the metal movable type printing technology, printed newspapers began to be published.

1450, Gutenberg, a German in Europe, invented metal movable type printing technology, so printed newspapers began to be published. 1493, the newspaper published in Rome published the news of Columbus' voyage. At that time, newspapers were only published when dramatic events happened.

1609, Germany took the lead in publishing periodicals and newspapers. Although it was a weekly newspaper, it soon spread all over Europe. The first daily newspaper in the world was published in Germany on 1650.

163 1 a newspaper appeared in France, but it was because of the political events at that time that newspapers were published in Britain. The first newspaper in the United States was the Boston Newsletter published by the postmaster of Boston in 1704 before independence. From the historical development to the bourgeois revolution in Europe, newspapers have been published in European countries one after another, and have been loved and accepted by more and more people.

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The appearance of periodical newspapers is a symbol of the modernization of journalism, but in the origin stage of newspapers, the continuous distribution is regular and irregular. For example, during the period of Dibao in the Song Dynasty, it was sometimes "daily", sometimes "every five days", sometimes "every ten days" and sometimes "every month", and every adjustment of the period could basically achieve continuous distribution; The tabloids in the Song Dynasty were published irregularly.

Starting from the similarity between ancient newspapers and modern newspapers in China, this paper re-analyzes the concept of newspapers. A newspaper is an information dissemination medium that mainly publishes news, with single content, open and continuous distribution, with characters as the main communication symbol and paper reproduction.

Re-analyzing the concept of newspaper is helpful for us to grasp the essential attribute of newspaper, effectively distinguish newspaper from other information media, and also help to trace the origin of newspaper.

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