Friday, 17 April 2020

Chronology of Newspaper Publication in the world and in India - Part 2 (26-50)

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Name of the Newspaper
Year of Publication
Founder
Place
26
Rangapur Barttabaha (First newspaper weekly)
1847
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Bangladesh
27
The New York Times
September, 1851
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USA
28
Hindu Patriot (weekly newspaper)
January, 1853
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Kolkata, India
29
Samachar Sudha Varshan (first Hindi daily in India)
June, 1854
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Kolkata, India
30
Somprakash (Bengali weekly)
15th November, 1858
Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan
Kolkata, India
31
The Pioneer (English language newspaper)
1865
George Allen

*Rudyard Kipling worked as Assistant Editor of the paper
Allahabad, India
32
Amrita Bazar Patrika
20th February, 1868
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Kolkata, India
33
La Nacion (The Nation, a Spanish daily newspaper)
1870
Bartolome Mitre Martinez
Argentina
34
Sulabh Samachar (Bengali weekly)
1870
Keshub Chandra Sen
Kolkata, India
35
Bangadarshan (monthly literary journal)
1872
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
Kolkata, India
36
The Civil and Military Gazette
1872
***Rudyard Kipling worked as Assistant Editor between 1882 to 1887
British India
37
The Statesman
1875
Robert Knight
Kolkata, India
38
Al-Ahram
1875
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Egypt
39
The Washington Post
1877
---
Washington DC
40
The Hindu
*Started as English language weekly. Became a daily from April 1889.
20th September, 1878
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Chennai
41
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese language daily)
25th January, 1879
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Japan
42
The Bengalee
1879
Surendranath Banerjea
Kolkata, India
43
Times of India weekly edition
**Renamed as Illustrated Weekly of India in 1923
1880
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44
The Tribune (English language)
February, 1881
Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia
Lahore
45
Kesari (Marathi newspaper)
1881
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Maharashtra
46
Malayala Manorama (Malayalam language)
1890
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Kottayam
47
Daily Mail
*First British daily to achieve mass circulation
1896
Alfred Harmsworth
Britan
48
Udbodhan
*Bengali mouthpiece of Ramkrishna Math
1899
Swami Vivakananda
Kolkata, India
49
Ishkra (political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants)
December, 1990
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Stuttgart, Russia
50
Indian opinion
June, 1903
Mahatma Gandhi
South Africa



Thursday, 16 April 2020

Chronology of Newspaper Publication in the world and in India - Part 1 (1-25)

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Name of the Newspaper
Year of Publication
Founder
Place
1
Account of all distinguished and commemorable news (Originally in German Language). Regarded as first newspaper.
1605
Johan Carolus
Strasburg
2
Corrant out of Italy, Germany, etc’ (First English Language Newspaper)

2nd December, 1620
Joris Veseler
Amsterdam (Not in Britain)
3
Weekly Newes from Italy, etc (Considered first published newspaper in Britain)
23rd May, 1622
Nicholas Bourne and Thomas Archer
Britain
4
Incoming News
1st July, 1650
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Leipzig
5
Oxford Gazette (English Language)
**Became London Gazette in Fenruary 1666)
November, 1665

England
6
Publick Occurrences (first Colonial Newspaper)
25th September, 1690
Benjamin Harris
Boston, USA
7
Daily Courant (England’s first daily newspaper)
11th March, 1702
Edward and Elizabeth Mallet
England
8
Boston News-Letter (America’s first newspaper)
April, 1704
John Campbell
USA
9
Pennsylvania Gazette
1728
Benjamin Franklin
USA
10
Bengal Gazette (first newspaper in the Indian sub-continent)
29th January, 1780
James Augustus Hicky (An Irishman)
Kolkata, India
11
The Times
1st January, 1785
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London
12
Sydney Gazette (Australia’s first newspaper)
1803
George Howe
Australia
13
Samachar Darpan (First Indian language newspaper weekly)
1818
Serampore Baptist missionaries
Serampore, India
14
The Friend of India
1818
Serampore Baptist missionaries
Serampore, India
15
The Calcutta Review
1818
James Silk Buckingham
Kolkata, India
16
Brahmonical Magazine
1821
Rammohan Roy
Kolkata, India
17
Mirat-ul-Akbar (Persian language)
1822
Rammohan Roy
Kolkata, India
18
Bombay Samachar (Gujarati weekly)
July, 1822
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Mumbai, India
19
Udant Martand (first Hindi newspaper in India)
30th May, 1826
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Kolkata, India
20
Sambad Prabhakar
28th January, 1831
Ishwar Chandra Gupta
Kolkata, India
21
The East Indian
1831
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Kolkata, India
22
The Times of India
3rd November, 1838
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Mumbai, India
23
New York Tribune
1841
Horace Greeley
USA
24
Tattavabodhini Patrika
1843
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Kolkata
25
The Strait Times (English language newspaper)
July, 1845
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Singapore