<P> In the 16th and 17th century, there appeared numerous printed news sheets summarizing accounts of battles, treaties, king, epidemics, and special events . In 1609 Johann Carolus published the first regular newspaper in Strassburg, comprising brief news bulletins . By the 1620s, numerous major cities had newspapers of 4 to 8 pages appearing at irregular intervals; all were strictly censored . The first daily newspaper appeared in 1660 in Leipzig . Prussia increasingly became the largest and most dominant of the German states, but it had weak newspapers that were kept under very tight control . Advertising was forbidden, and budgets were very small . </P> <P> In 1766, a Dutch adventurer, William Bolts, proposed starting a newspaper for the English audience in Calcutta . He was deported by the East India Company, before his plans could come to fruition . </P> <P> In January 1780, James Augustus Hicky published Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper in India . The size of that four - page newspaper was 12 "x8". Hicky accused the members of the East India Company, including Governor General Warren Hastings of corruption . In retailiation Hastings prohibited the post office from carrying Hicky's Bengal Gazette, and later sued Hicky for libel . In November 1780, the India Gazette appeared; it supported the Company government . </P> <P> In 1814, The Times of London acquired a printing press capable of making 1,100 impressions per hour . It was soon adapted to print on both sides of a page at once . This innovation made newspapers cheaper and thus available to a larger part of the population . In 1830, the first penny press newspaper came to the market: Lynde M. Walter's Boston Transcript . Penny press papers cost about one - sixth the price of other newspapers and appealed to a wider audience . Newspaper editors exchanged copies and freely reprinted material . By the late 1840s telegraph networks linked major and minor cities and permitted overnight news reporting . The invention of wood pulp papermaking in the 1840s significantly reduced the cost of newsprint, having previously been made from rags . Increasing literacy in the 19th century also increased the size of newspapers' audiences . </P>

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