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*Kaiyuan Za Bao* was an official publication which first appeared in the 8th century, during the Kaiyuan era. It has been described as the first Chinese newspaper or official gazette,^[1] and also as the world's first magazine.^[2] Pictured is a remake of the publication.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.

The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases.

The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shift in the consumption of print media channels, as people increasingly consume news through e-readers, smartphones, and other personal electronic devices, as opposed to the more traditional formats of newspapers, magazines, or television news channels. News organizations are challenged to fully monetize their digital wing, as well as improvise on the context in which they publish in print. Newspapers have seen print revenues sink at a faster pace than the rate of growth for digital revenues. (Full article...)

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El País (Spanish: [el paˈis] ^ⓘ; lit. 'The Country') is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. El País is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.

It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain as of December 2017^[update]. El País is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with El Mundo and ABC). In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000. (Full article...)

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Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road.

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Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade (also known as Eliade or Eliade Rădulescu; Romanian pronunciation: [ˈi.on (h)eliˈade rəduˈlesku]; 6 January 1802 – 27 April 1872) was a Wallachian, later Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician. A prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian, he was also the author of books on linguistics and history. For much of his life, Heliade Rădulescu was a teacher at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, which he helped reopen. He was a founding member and first president of the Romanian Academy.

Heliade Rădulescu is considered one of the foremost champions of Romanian culture from the first half of the 19th century, having first risen to prominence through his association with Gheorghe Lazăr and his support of Lazăr's drive for discontinuing education in Greek. Over the following decades, he had a major role in shaping the modern Romanian language, but caused controversy when he advocated the massive introduction of Italian neologisms into the Romanian lexis. A Romantic nationalist landowner siding with moderate liberals, Heliade was among the leaders of the 1848 Wallachian revolution, after which he was forced to spend several years in exile. Adopting an original form of conservatism, which emphasized the role of the aristocratic boyars in Romanian history, he was rewarded for supporting the Ottoman Empire and clashed with the radical wing of the 1848 revolutionaries. (Full article...)

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Image 1AUR leader George Simion answering a question from a Digi 24 reporter in Cluj-Napoca, 2025 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 2Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1961 (from Photojournalism)
Image 3Soldiers in an East German tank unit reading about the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 in Neues Deutschland (from Newspaper)
Image 4Turkish journalists protesting imprisonment of their colleagues on Human Rights Day, 2016 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 5A newspaper press in Limoges, France (from Newspaper)
Image 6Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper (from Newspaper)
Image 7International newspapers on sale in Paris (from Newspaper)
Image 8Fanciful drawing of a general store by Marguerite Martyn in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 21, 1906. On the far left, a group of men share reading a newspaper. (from Newspaper)
Image 9The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press (from Freedom of the press)
Image 10Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway interviewing Eric McCormack at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight (from Entertainment journalism)
Image 11In Migrant Mother (1936) Dorothea Lange produced the seminal image of the Great Depression. The FSA also employed several other photojournalists to document the depression. (from Photojournalism)
Image 12Brian Williams interviews Mitt Romney on July 25, 2012, during Romney's presidential campaign. (from News presenter)
Image 13The newsroom of Gazeta Lubuska in Zielona Góra, Poland (from Newspaper)
Image 14News set for WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio. News anchors often report from sets such as this, located in or near the newsroom. (from News presenter)
Image 152023 World Press Freedom Index
  Good: 85–100 points

  Satisfactory: 70–85 points

  Problematic: 55–70 points

  Difficult: 40–55 points

  Very serious <40 points

  Not classified
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Image 16Newspaper vendor, Paddington, London, February 2005 (from Newspaper)
Image 17Yomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world (from Newspaper)
Image 18The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung pioneered modern photojournalism and was widely copied. Pictured, the cover of issue of 26 August 1936: a meeting between Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola. (from Photojournalism)
Image 19Cumhuriyet's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar receiving the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Prize. Shortly after, he was arrested. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 20The office building of Tyrvään Sanomat in Sastamala, Finland (from Newspaper)
Image 21The Telegraph printing house in Macon, Georgia, c. 1876 (from Newspaper)
Image 22Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz in its Hebrew and English editions (from Newspaper)
Image 23The data-driven journalism process. (from Data journalism)
Image 24Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 25"Geronimo's camp before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: Geronimo and Natches mounted; Geronimo's son (Perico) standing at his side holding baby." By C. S. Fly. (from Photojournalism)
Image 26Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic but was murdered by the Saudi Government. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 27Front page of the Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Times) on July 7, 1904 (from Newspaper)
Image 28Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a building collapse (from Broadcast journalism)
Image 29Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840 (from Newspaper)
Image 30First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica (from Freedom of the press)
Image 31Canadian politician Andrew Scheer being interviewed in a scrum, 2017 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 32The editorial staff of Severnyi Kray in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1900 (from Newspaper)
Image 33Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was a driving force of suppressing freedom of the press in Nazi Germany. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 34Freedom of the Press status 2017. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 35A journalist works on location at the Loma Prieta Earthquake in San Francisco's Marina District October 1989. (from Broadcast journalism)
Image 36A newsboy selling the Toronto Telegram in Canada in 1905 (from Newspaper)
Image 37The Crawlers, London, 1876–1877, a photograph from John Thomson's Street Life in London photo-documentary (from Photojournalism)
Image 38Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918 (from Newspaper)
Image 39Konrad Adenauer reading the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung issue of 7 August 1961 (from Newspaper)
Image 40Roger Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front. (from Photojournalism)
Image 41Photojournalists at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (from Photojournalism)
Image 42Mexican journalist Rubén Espinosa was murdered, along with four women, in Mexico City after fleeing death threats in Veracruz. (from Freedom of the press)
Image 43Black-and-white photograph of a National Guardsman looking over the Washington Monument in Washington D.C., on January 21, 2021, the day after the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States (from Photojournalism)
Image 44Presenter Reena Ninan interviewing politician Michael Bennet on CBS News (from News presenter)
Image 45Leica 1, (1925)'s introduction marked the beginning of modern photojournalism. (from Photojournalism)
Image 46Newspaper and advertisement, Argentina (from Newspaper)
Image 47Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story (from Photojournalism)
Image 48Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Hossam Shabat was assassinated by the IDF on 24 March 2025 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 49Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin demanding the release of Russia's political prisoners, including journalists Ivan Safronov and Maria Ponomarenko [sv], 2024 (from Freedom of the press)
Image 50Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (from Photojournalism)

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The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth.

— Massachusetts Constitution, The constitution was adopted in 1780 and is the oldest functioning written constitution in continuous effect in the world.

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^ Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.
^ Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.
^ "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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[1] Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Library Association, v. 27, 1992. Digitized Dec 27, 2007 from the University of California.

[2] Murphy, Lawrence William. "An Introduction to Journalism: Authoritative Views on the Profession", 1930. T. Nelson and sons Journalism. Original from the University of California. Digitized Oct 23, 2007.

[3] "WAN - Newspapers: 400 Years Young!". Wan-press.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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