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The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Longest-running newspapers. The New Hampshire Gazette (1756) The Newport Daily News (originally published as The Newport Mercury in 1758) Hartford Courant (1764, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States) The Register Star (Hudson, New York, 1785) Poughkeepsie Journal (1785) The Augusta Chronicle (1785)
The newspaper was established as the African Standard in 1902 as a weekly by Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee, an immigrant businessman from British India. In 1905 Jeevanjee sold the paper to Maia Anderson and Rudolf Franz Mayer, who changed the name to the East African Standard. It became a daily paper and moved its headquarters from Mombasa to Nairobi ...
History of American newspapers. The history of American newspapers begins in the early 18th century with the publication of the first colonial newspapers. American newspapers began as modest affairs—a sideline for printers. They became a political force in the campaign for American independence. Following independence the first amendment to U ...
The Nation Publishing Co. Limited is the publisher of the Nation Newspaper, which is the dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados. Co-founded by Harold Hoyte and Fred Gollop, it was first established in 1973. [1] the Daily Nation is printed daily in colour and distributed at many points around the country.
History of newspaper publishing. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1605.
0745-7014. Website. chicagodefender .com. The Chicago Defender is a Chicago -based online African-American newspaper. It was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind. [1] Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow -era violence and urged black people in the American ...