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"Father" of Newspapering:
France's Theophraste Renaudot was fondly (but wrongly) called the "father of the newspaper." Newspapers already existed in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in 1631 when Renaudot started the Gazette de France in Paris. The Gazette was influential and long-lived, lasting 158 years.
1650 ... World's first daily newspaper, Eincommende Zeitung, published in Germany.
1650
Coffeehouse Gab:
In the 1650s, Englishmen (no women allowed) began to share news at raucous coffeehouses. As a ballad writer wrote:
"There's nothing done in all the World,
From monarch to the Mouse
But every Day or Night 'tis hurld
Into the Coffe-house." |