Research Paper on:
19th Century Innovation of Journalism

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take them to work, read them on the train and then discard them until another person picks the papers up to take a look at the events of the previous  day. The newspaper makes an effort to report on the news and while journalism has changed over the years, few people take the time to explore its past. Some have  said that journalism is a nineteenth century invention. If that is the case, it makes sense to explore journalism in that century, particularly in Europe where the Victorian period was  especially interesting. Much of what the newspaper has become today has its roots in the nineteenth century. The paper as it is known today actually evolved out of about  four distinct stages in the publication of news (Towers, 1997). The first stage concerned the publication of one story, and this was known as a relation; a relation was  actually a historical account of what was considered to be a newsworthy item (1997). The second stage of the evolution-which occurred during the seventeenth century--involved the publication of what was  called a coranto; this was a publication where many different items of news described the events of a recent period and were run end to end(Smith, 1979 as cited in  Towers, 1997). The coranto generally would appear weekly, and it contemplated global news as well (1997). This sounds very similar to modern day newspapers, but it really was rather sparse  in comparison. Thus, the newspaper had awhile to go. The third stage in the birth of the newspaper had been the establishment of a printed account of the news and  occurrences of an entire week (Towers, 1997). Such a publication would be printed on a weekly basis and it was termed a diurnall (1997). The final stage of the