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Ancient Inventions: The Newspaper

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Monday, May 14 2018

By Gianna Gulasey

Why Was Newspaper Invented

Who Invented Newspaper?

The Ancient Romans started to post the "Acta Diurna" (Daily Acts) Newspaper because they kept the public informed through official texts detailing things going on. They often contained information on Roman military victories, games and gladiatorial bouts, and birth and death notices. Details of the Roman Senate were found in a different post called the Acta Senatus, Julius Caesar ordered them to be published as request from many people.

Ancient Roman Newspaper

How Did Newspaper Advance Society?

The newspaper helped advance every day life in many ways such as helping to letting everybody know what was happening in Rome, upcoming events such as shows and live gladiator events that took place in the Colosseum. The Acta Diurna also kept the Roman people updated on thing such like improvements or decrements in the Roman Government.

The ancient Romans were the first society to print and distribute what we now modernly know as a newspaper in abut 131 B.C. They called their newspaper the "Acta Diurna" (Daily Acts). Before the invention of paper the daily news was written in stone or some type of metal and posted in places such as the Roman Forum. The paper contained information about current events in the Ancient Roman world.

"I found Rome, a city of bricks, and I left it as a city of marble."

-Augustus (the Acta Diurna)

Modern Newspaper

Citations

https://www.haikudeck.com/newspapers-in-ancient-rome-education-presentation-MgdGBokXCm

Despite the 2,000 years newspapers have not changed drastically or hardly at all. Todays newspapers are used to inform people on current national and local situations, good, bad, upcoming, and past events. However the use of paper news has become less relavent because of all the digital technology. Today there are about 1,200 daily papers, whereas in the 1970 about 2,000 printers were distributing a daily paper.

https://www.history.com/news/10-innovations-that-built-ancient-rome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta_Diurna

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Acta

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