history of newspapers

By erinmay27

  • first English newspaper printed in amsterdam

  • the licensing act

    issued by the English parliament - bans the selling and importation of "heretical seditious schismatical or offensive books or pamphlets"

  • launch of the first regular daily news paper

    called the daily courant

  • tax on newspapers

    -as newspapers increased in popularity and started to have a bigger influence on the public - the government decided to start taxing them.
    -The first bill in parliament advocating a tax on newspapers was proposed in 1711.
    -eventually imposed in 1712
    - the tax was a halfpenny on papers of half a sheet or less and a penny on newspapers that ranged from half a sheet to a single sheet in size.

  • the press council

    • a voluntary press organization founded under threat of statutory regulation as the General Council.
    • they had a non-binding regulatory framework. -the Council was mostly funded by newspaper proprietors, with the stated aim of maintaining high standards of ethics in journalism.