The first newspaper was written by hand and put up on walls in public places. The earliest daily newspaper was started in Rome in 59 B.C.
In the 7th century, the world’s first printed newspaper was published. Europe didn’t have a regularly published newspaper until 1690, when one was started in Germany.
The first regularly published newspaper in the English language was published in London once a week. The first daily English newspaper was the “Daily Current”. It came out in March, 1702.
In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But not long after it was first published, the government stopped the paper. In 1704, John Campbell started “The Boston Newsletter”, the first newspaper published daily in the American colonies(殖民地). By 1760, the colonies had more than 30 daily newspapers. There are now about 1,800 daily newspapers in the United States.
Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation(发行量) in the world. But the largest circulation for a newspaper is a Japanese newspaper named “Asahi Shimbun”. It sells more than 11 million copies every day.
【小题1】When did the first daily newspaper come out?