LONDON'S NEWSPAPERS.
THE FIRST OF THE DAILIES.
The London press has just been marking tho 227 th anniversary of tho city's first successful daily newspaper. It was named tho Daily Courant, and it described itself as published by E. Mallet " against tho Ditch at Fleet Bridge." Seven years earlier, in 1695, tho Postboy had been published as a daily paper, but onlv four numbers appeared. The Daily Courant did not mark tho toundations of tho newspaper industry in Britain —that honour goes to tho Weekly News, produced by Nathaniel Butler in 1665. Tho Daily Courant consisted of a single pago of two. columns and professed to give only foreign news. It assured its readers that it would not givo any comments of its own, " supposing other people to havo sense enough to make reflections for themselves." London's first newspaper camo to an end in 1735 when it was absorbed in tho Daily Gazetcor.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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153LONDON'S NEWSPAPERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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