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Article: Journalism, Newspapers, and Newssheets
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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JOURNALISM, NEWSPAPERS, AND NEWSSHEETS
JOURNALISM, NEWSPAPERS, AND NEWSSHEETS.
The earliest printed periodical news publications appeared shortly after 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, newspapers were being published in every major European country. Together, they constituted a phenomenon new in European history and unique in the world: a system of communication that made the most up-to-date information available, not just to members of government bureaucracies or wealthy elites, but to a socially diverse public that included even those of modest means. Printed periodicals tied Europe's "Republic of Letters" together, promoted the diffusion of knowledge and of new cultural ...