How do you get your news? Is it from news feeds on your social media accounts? Is it from news websites? Is it from television channels? Or is it still from newspapers?
In fact, although very few people read newspapers nowadays newspapers were the best means of obtaining information for man in ancient times before major mass media such as television and radio were invented.
After the Romans, the Italians had also made another predecessor of the newspaper when the Avisi or gazettes was seen in Venice, Italy in 1566. Yet unlike the Roman counterpart, this only contained news on military and political conflicts. As mass printing was not yet invented on those times both of these predecessors did not have the technology of the printing press which had limited their circulation.
Then around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg had invented the first printing press in Europe. His printing press was mechanical and was movable thus started the printing revolution which spread all across Europe. The discovery of the printing press paved the way for "true" newspapers.
By 1500, the printing press had made its way throughout Europe, and news sheets or news books were mass-distributed.The first weekly newspaper was published in 1604 by Johann Carolus of Germany, and that publication satisfied the four principles of a "true" newspaper. In 1618 the world’s first broadsheet newspaper was printed and published in Amsterdam. The newspaper format soon spread throughout Europe, with newspapers in Spain, France and Sweden. The newspaper was developed with the industrial revolution. In addition to large-scale production, the technologies of the Industrial Revolution enabled the inclusion of detailed illustrations published graphically and weekly.In this way the newspaper has gradually spread all over the world.
when it comes to Sri Lanka After some government newspapers in 1834 the first non-government newspaper including commercial advertisements for the first time "Observer "launched by G. Ackland and E. J. Darley. The editor was George Winter. After the sinhala press iniated by Rev. Bulathgama Dhammalankara Thero in Sinhala language in Galle first Sinhala Newspaper was published in 1860 named Lankalokaya.
All this history did not go smoothly as media freedom was not yet known at that time. Governments or authorities did not want to divulge a lot of information to people fearing that they may know all about the authorities. Yet again the thirst for knowledge and the rights of the people to know what is happening has obviously emerged triumphant thus we had newspaper prints to this day. Its evolution goes hand in hand with the development of printing presses and paper making.As demand increased, so did the need to print cheap material, and in a short time hundreds of printing presses began to develop same type of method.Even today, newspapers are still printed in ink and paper. The development of journalism or on the manner on how news should be delivered may also come hand in hand in the development of newspapers as this was the first source of news long before the television and the radio were invented.
By the early 20th century, newspapers included the features we recognize in modern newspapers banner headlines, photos and illustrations, comics, and sports coverage, in addition to the political and event news that have always been newspaper staples.By the twenty-first century, with the advancement of technology, the use of mass media has largely changed. Basically, the increasing use of Internet search functionality by large engines such as Google has also changed the habits of readers. Instead of looking at public interest publications such as newspapers, readers are more likely to search for specific authors, blogs or information sources through targeted searches, and newspaper aggregation is less relevant. In some countries, such as India, the newspaper is more popular than the Internet and broadcast media. Even where the problems in North America and Europe are most intriguing, there are recent success stories, such as the dramatic rise in free daily newspapers. With revenue declining, many news outlets and journalists have been slashed and are still trying to publish powerful content. In response to falling ad revenues and plunging circulation, many newspapers have cut staff as well as editorial content, and in a vicious cycle, those cuts often spur more and deeper circulation declines—triggering more loss of ad revenues.
However at present Newapaper is converged to the web media, television and radio media. Television and radio give some separate space to the newspaper with the distribution of newspaper information at the beginning of the day. Most of the Newspapers contain their own webpage to interact with more people. In fact, a significant number of people still buy newspapers, and a significant number of the remaining minority view the newspaper through the web.
In the future, newspaper will be largely done through web media and newspaper writers are more likely to be citizens.This process is already taking place in many developed countries, and as people become more and more accustomed to the technology, it will soon spread to other countries.
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