Important dates in the history of journalism

• 1690: The first newspaper is published in America, Publick Occurrences.
• 1702: The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant. The Courant was first published (periodical)in 1621.
• 1704: Considered the world’s first journalist, Daniel Defoe publishs the Review.
• 1803: First newspapers published in Australia, the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.
• 1830: Number of newspapers published in the U.S. is 715.
• 1831: The famous abolitionist newspaper The Liberator is first published by William Lloyd Garrison.
• 1833: The New York Sun newspaper costs one cent - the beginning of the penny press.
• 1844: First newspaper published in Thailand.
• 1848: The Brooklyn Freeman newspaper is first published by Walt Whitman.
• 1850: P.T. Barnum starts running newspaper ads for Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" performances in America.
• 1851: The Post Office starts offering a special cheap newspaper rate.
• 1855: First newspaper published in Sierra Leone.
• 1856: The first full-page newspaper ad is published in the New York Ledger. Large type newspaper ads are made popular by photographer Mathew Brady. Machines now mechanically fold newspapers.
• 1860: A "morgue" in newspaper terms means an archive. The New York Herald starts the first morgue.
• 1864: William James Carlton of J. Walter Thompson Company begins selling advertising space in newspapers. The J. Walter Thompson Company is the longist running American advertising agency.
• 1867: The first double column advertising appears for the department store Lord & Taylor.
• 1869: Newspaper circulation numbers published by George P. Rowell in the first Rowell's American Newspaper Directory.
• 1870: Number of newspapers published in the U.S. is 5,091.
• 1871: First newspaper published in Japan - the daily Yokohama Mainichi Shimbun. Famous newspaper interview with explorer Stanley Livingston published.
• 1873: First illustrated daily newspaper published in New York.
• 1877: First weather report with map published in Australia. The Washington Post newspaper first publishes with a circulation of 10,000 and a cost of 3 cents per paper.
• 1879: The benday process improves newspapers. The first whole page newspaper ad placed by an American department store (John Wanamaker) is run.
• 1880: First halftone photograph (Shantytown) published in a newspaper.
• 1885: Newspapers are delivered daily by train.
• 1887: The San Francisco Examiner published.
• 1893: The Royal Baking Powder Company becomes the biggest newspaper advertiser in the world.
• 1903: The first tabloid style newspaper, the Daily Mirror is pblished.
• 1931: Newspaper funnies now include Plainclothes Tracy starring Dick Tracy.
• 1933: A war breaks out between the newspaper and radio industries. American newspapers try to force the Associated Press to terminate news service to radio stations.
• 1954: There are more radios than there are daily newspapers.
• 1955: Teletypesetting is used for newspapers.
• 1967: Newspapers use digital production processes and began using computers for operations.
• 1971: Use of Offset presses becomes common.