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*Kaiyuan Za Bao* was an official publication which first appeared in the 8th century, during the Kaiyuan era. It has been described as the first Chinese newspaper or official gazette,^[1] and also as the world's first magazine.^[2] Pictured is a remake of the publication.

The title page of *Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien* (Account of all distinguished and commemorable stories), from 1609. The publication is recognized by the World Association of Newspapers^[3] as the world's first newspaper.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.

The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases.

The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shift in the consumption of print media channels, as people increasingly consume news through e-readers, smartphones, and other personal electronic devices, as opposed to the more traditional formats of newspapers, magazines, or television news channels. News organizations are challenged to fully monetize their digital wing, as well as improvise on the context in which they publish in print. Newspapers have seen print revenues sink at a faster pace than the rate of growth for digital revenues. (Full article...)

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The Independent is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the Indy, it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition.

The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. The Independent won the Brand of the Year Award in The Drum Awards for Online Media 2023. (Full article...)

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J'accuse ("I accuse") was an open letter published on January 13, 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore by the influential writer Émile Zola. The letter was addressed to President of France Félix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus.

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...that American photojournalist Daniel Smith (pictured) was once kidnapped by members of the Mehdi Army and taken to meet Muqtada al-Sadr?
...that 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist?
...that Stewart White has presented the regional BBC News programme Look East for 24 years?
... that The Daily Talk, the most widely read news medium in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, is published daily on a blackboard in the center of town?

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s. Regarded by most commentators as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era, Wilde is best remembered for his Gothic philosophical fiction The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), as well as his epigrams, plays, and bedtime stories for children, and his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency for homosexual acts.

Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. (Full article...)

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Image 1The newsroom of Gazeta Lubuska in Zielona Góra, Poland (from Newspaper)
Image 2The office building of Tyrvään Sanomat in Sastamala, Finland (from Newspaper)
Image 3AUR leader George Simion answering a question from a Digi 24 reporter in Cluj-Napoca, 2025 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 4Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic but was murdered by the Saudi Government. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 5First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica (from Freedom of the press)
Image 6Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a building collapse (from Broadcast journalism)
Image 7Brian Williams interviews Mitt Romney on July 25, 2012, during Romney's presidential campaign. (from News presenter)
Image 8International newspapers on sale in Paris (from Newspaper)
Image 9"Geronimo's camp before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: Geronimo and Natches mounted; Geronimo's son (Perico) standing at his side holding baby." By C. S. Fly. (from Photojournalism)
Image 10Freedom of the Press status 2017. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 11Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper (from Newspaper)
Image 12Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin demanding the release of Russia's political prisoners, including journalists Ivan Safronov and Maria Ponomarenko, 2024 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 13Photojournalists at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (from Photojournalism)
Image 14Turkish journalists protesting imprisonment of their colleagues on Human Rights Day, 2016 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 15Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918 (from Newspaper)
Image 16Newspaper vendor, Paddington, London, February 2005 (from Newspaper)
Image 17In Migrant Mother (1936) Dorothea Lange produced the seminal image of the Great Depression. The FSA also employed several other photojournalists to document the depression. (from Photojournalism)
Image 18Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (from Photojournalism)
Image 19News set for WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio. News anchors often report from sets such as this, located in or near the newsroom. (from News presenter)
Image 20Abzas Media's editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi was sentenced to 9 years in prison in June 2025 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 212023 World Press Freedom Index
  Good: 85–100 points

  Satisfactory: 70–85 points

  Problematic: 55–70 points

  Difficult: 40–55 points

  Very serious <40 points

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Image 22A newsboy selling the Toronto Telegram in Canada in 1905 (from Newspaper)
Image 23A newspaper press in Limoges, France (from Newspaper)
Image 24Konrad Adenauer reading the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung issue of 7 August 1961 (from Newspaper)
Image 25Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1961 (from Photojournalism)
Image 26Front page of the Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Times) on July 7, 1904 (from Newspaper)
Image 27Belarusian journalist Katsyaryna Andreeva was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2022 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 28Leica 1, (1925)'s introduction marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. (from Photojournalism)
Image 29Roger Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front. (from Photojournalism)
Image 30Cumhuriyet's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar receiving the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Prize. Shortly after, he was arrested. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 31Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840 (from Newspaper)
Image 32Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was a driving force of suppressing freedom of the press in Nazi Germany. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 33Black-and-white photograph of a National Guardsman looking over the Washington Monument in Washington D.C., on January 21, 2021, the day after the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States (from Photojournalism)
Image 34Presenter Reena Ninan interviewing politician Michael Bennet on CBS News (from News presenter)
Image 35Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 36Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Hossam Shabat was assassinated by the IDF on 24 March 2025 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 37Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway interviewing Eric McCormack at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight (from Entertainment journalism)
Image 38The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung pioneered modern photojournalism and was widely copied. Pictured, the cover of issue of 26 August 1936: a meeting between Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola. (from Photojournalism)
Image 39Newspaper and advertisement, Argentina (from Newspaper)
Image 40Canadian politician Andrew Scheer being interviewed in a scrum, 2017 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 41Mexican journalist Rubén Espinosa was murdered, along with four women, in Mexico City after fleeing death threats in Veracruz. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 42Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz in its Hebrew and English editions (from Newspaper)
Image 43The editorial staff of Severnyi Kray in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1900 (from Newspaper)
Image 44Fanciful drawing of a general store by Marguerite Martyn in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 21, 1906. On the far left, a group of men share reading a newspaper. (from Newspaper)
Image 45Soldiers in an East German tank unit reading about the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 in Neues Deutschland (from Newspaper)
Image 46Yomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world (from Newspaper)
Image 47A journalist works on location at the Loma Prieta Earthquake in San Francisco's Marina District October 1989. (from Broadcast journalism)
Image 48The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press (from Freedom of the press)
Image 49Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story (from Photojournalism)
Image 50The Crawlers, London, 1876–1877, a photograph from John Thomson's Street Life in London photo-documentary (from Photojournalism)
Image 51The data-driven journalism process. (from Data journalism)
Image 52The Telegraph printing house in Macon, Georgia, c. 1876 (from Newspaper)

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^ Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.
^ Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.
^ "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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[1] Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.

[2] Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.

[3] "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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