Newspapers
Newspapers: a Brief History
from WAN, the World Association of Newspapers
Johann Gutenberg
(from http://www.wan-press.org/article2821.html)
About this guide
Use this guide to find local, national, and international newspapers, and to find articles in the archives of the Seattle Times and many other important news sources.
It is a broad overview, offering many points of access to understand the news industry and the cultural institution known as newspapers - an institution fundamental to democracy.
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter..."
~ President Thomas Jefferson
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