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54:. He not only received business news from his correspondents, but also sensationalist and gossip news as well. It is evident in Fugger's correspondence with his network that fiction and fact were both significant parts of early news publications. 16th century Germany also saw subscription-based, handwritten news. Those who subscribed to these publications were generally low-level government officials and also merchants. They could not afford other types of news publications, but had enough money to pay for a subscription, which was still expensive for the time. 182:. It was edited by German and Jewish émigrés who fled to the United States before the war. Its mission was to encourage democracy by exposing Germans to how American culture operated. The paper was filled with details on American sports, politics, business, Hollywood, and fashions, as well as international affairs. 110:
from which the publishing press derives its name. Historian Johannes Weber stated: "At the same time, then, as the printing press in the physical, technological sense was invented, 'the press' in the extended sense of the word also entered the historical stage. The phenomenon of publishing was born.
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to shut down the socialists, and to threaten hostile editors. There were no national newspapers. Editors focused on political commentary, but also included a nonpolitical cultural page, focused on the arts and high culture. Especially popular was the serialized novel, with a new chapter every week.
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A large number of newspapers and magazines flourished. A typical small city had one or two newspapers; Berlin and Leipzig had dozens. The audience was limited to around five percent of the adult men, chiefly from the aristocratic and middle classes. Liberal papers outnumbered conservative ones by a
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The term newspaper became common in the 17th century. However, publications that resemble modern-day newspaper publications were appearing as early as the 16th century in Germany. They were discernibly newspapers for the following reasons: they were printed, dated, appeared at regular and frequent
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wide margin. Foreign governments bribed editors to guarantee a favorable image. Censorship was strict, and the government issued the political news they were supposed to report. After 1871, strict press laws were used by
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of Johann Carolus, in the early 17th century. German newspapers were organized by the location from which they came, and by date. They differed from avisis in that they employed a distinct and highly illustrated
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established consumer bases decades earlier. Wire news service and newspaper commercial lending by Ruhr industrial interests sought to influence editorial opinion prior to the Great War and during the republic.
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In the 16th and 17th century, there appeared numerous printed news sheets summarizing accounts of battles, treaties, kings, epidemics, and special events. Early forms of news periodicals were the so-called
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Eksteins, Modris. (1975). The Limits of Reason: the German Democratic Press and the Collapse of Weimar Democracy. London: Oxford University Press. Oxford Historical Monographs series. pp. 78-79.
147:'s constitution along with other social forces and the earlier Reich press law of 1874 gave rise to a dispersed, energetic and pluralistic press with a wide range of political opinion after the 88:
increasingly became the largest and most dominant of the German states, but it had newspapers that were kept under very tight control. Advertising was forbidden, and budgets were very small.
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exchanged financial and commercial news, and some started regular newsletters for their clients. One example of this type of merchant was the 16th-century German financiar,
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Magin, Melanie, and Birgit Stark. "Explaining National Differences of Tabloidisation between Germany and Austria: Structure, Conduct and Performance."
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Wilke, Jürgen, and Carsten Reinemann. "Do the candidates matter? Long-term trends of campaign coverage-a study of the German press since 1949."
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In 1945, the occupying powers took over all newspapers in Germany and purged them of Nazi influence. The American occupation headquarters, the
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Lang, Rainhart, and Irma Rybnikova. "Discursive constructions of women managers in German mass media in the gender quota debate 2011-2013."
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Espejo, Carmen. "European Communication Networks in the Early Modern Age: A new framework of interpretation for the birth of journalism,"
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Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht, "Art is democracy and democracy is art: Culture, propaganda, and the Neue Zeitung in Germany."
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publication intervals, and included a variety of news items. The first newspaper according to modern definitions was the
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Esser, Frank. "Tabloidization'of News A Comparative Analysis of Anglo-American and German Press Journalism."
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Magazines were politically more influential, and attracted the leading intellectuals as authors.
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Form and style in journalism: European newspapers and the presentation of news, 1880-2005
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The Limits of Reason: the German Democratic Press and the Collapse of Weimar Democracy
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Publicity and Diplomacy: With Special Reference to England and Germany, 1890-1914
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The Social Foundations of German Unification, 1858-1871: Ideas and Institutions
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Johannes Weber, "Strassburg, 1605: The origins of the newspaper in Europe."
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The History Makers: The Press of Europe from hits Beginnings through 1965
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The Fuggers of Augsburg: Pursuing Wealth and Honor in Renaissance Germany
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The history makers: The press of Europe from its beginnings through 1965
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The history makers: The press of Europe from its beginnings through 1965
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Newspaper history from the seventeenth century to the present day
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respectively, starting in the 1580s. In 1605, the German
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The emergence of the new media branch was based on the
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Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien
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Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien
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Boyce, George; James Curran; Pauline Wingate (1978).
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Index

Johannes Gutenberg
printing press
newspapers
Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
early modern Europe
Fugger
Messrelationen
Frankfurt
Leipzig
Johann Carolus
newspaper
Straßburg
Prussia
Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien
title page
spread of the printing press
History of Germany § German Confederation, 1815–1867
Bismarck
Weimar Republic
Great War
Generalanzeiger
Boulevardblatt
Office of Military Government, United States
Die Neue Zeitung
History of journalism
Magazines
Newspapers
ISBN
0-19-821862-1
online review

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