Media
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Entertainment & Media
The first newspapers were probably handwritten newssheets that government posted in public
places. The earliest known newssheet was probably the Acta Diurna (Daily Events). Which
began in Rome in 59 B.C. It reported the proceedings of the Roman Senate and such news as
births and deaths.The first printed newspaper was a Chinese circular called Dibao. It was printed
from carved wooden blocks during the A.D. 700's.
The first regular published printed newspaper in Europe was Avisa Relation oder Zeitung of
Strasbourg, Germany (now France). It started in 1609. A weekly newssheet established in 1622
was the first printed newspaper in England.
The ground work for mass communications in the 20th century was laid in the 19th century by
two inventions, which allowed people to communicate by wire: the electric telegraph and the
telephone
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