Newspaper reporting in olden time and to-day / by John Pendleton.

  • Pendleton, John.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Newspaper reporting in olden time and to-day / by John Pendleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But he admits that “ the first modern sheet of news ” appeared in Venice about the year 1536, that it was in manuscript, and was read aloud in certain parts of the city—a journal that proved a great attraction, for it was only issued once a month, and narrated, in polished stirring words, how the Vene- tians fared in their war against Turkey. The fee paid for reading this sheet in manu- script was a gazzetta, and the news-sheet gradually got the name of the coin. At least, Blount, in his Glossographia, pub- lished in the seventeenth century, would lead one to this conclusion, giving as the definition of the word gazzetta, “ A certain Venetian coin, scarce worth one farthing; also a bill of news, or short relations of the occurrences of the time, printed most com- monly at Venice, and thence dispersed every month in most parts of Christendom.” It was not until 1612 that the gazzettas of the Venetians first appeared as numbered