News Media / Journalism Timeline Outline

Among the Earliest News Media: Tipao
(Circa 200 CE – 300 CE)

The First Printed Newsletters
(Circa 1450)

The First Eyewitness Report to Become a Bestseller
(February 15, 1493)

The Earliest English Newsbook
(September 1513)

The First Extended Series of Prints Attempting to Depict Great Events of the Recent Past
(1569 – 1570)

The First European Newspaper
(1605)

News Services Persist in Distributing News by Manuscript
(Circa 1610)

The First Private Newspaper Published in English
(1621)

Forerunner of the English Newspaper
(May 23, 1622)

The First Regularly Printed English Newspaper
(1624)

The First Weekly Magazine in France
(May 30, 1631)

The First Newspaper Published in North America, Suppressed after a Single Issue
(September 25, 1690)

The End of Pre-Publication Censorship Stimulates Newspapers and Other Publishing
(1695)

England's First Daily Newspaper
(March 11, 1702)

The First "Successful" Newspaper in North America
(April 24, 1704)

The First General-Interest Periodical and the First to Use the Word "Magazine" to Indicate a Storehouse of Knowledge
(January 1731)

The First American Political Cartoon: "JOIN, or DIE."
(May 9, 1754)

Origin of "The Times" of London
(1785)

The First Newspaper in Australia Begins Publication
(March 5, 1803)

Printing 1100 Sheets per Hour
(July 23, 1813 – November 29, 1814)

Speeding up Printing the News
( – 1816)

The First Opinion Poll
(1824)

A Press in Malta to Print Books in Arabic & Turkish
(1825 – 1842)

The First Newspaper Published in South America
(November 7, 1825)

Circulation of the Times of London is 11,000
(1830)

The First Illustrated News Publication
(May 12, 1842)

The First Periodical Typeset, Printed and Bound Entirely by Machine
(December 17, 1842)

News of the World Begins Publication
(October 1, 1843)

Papermaking from Wood Pulp Rediscovered & Industrialized
(October 26, 1844 – August 1845)

The Associated Press is Founded
(1848)

The Circulation of "The Times" of London Reaches 38,000
(1850)

Using a Fleet of 45 Carrier Pigeons to Deliver News
(1850)

Using a Fleet of 200 Carrier Pigeons and the Telegraph
(1851)

The New York Times Begins Publication
(September 18, 1851)

The First Newspaper Printed in Color
(December 22, 1855)

Reuters Expands, Following Telegraph Lines
(1858)

The Times of London Prints on Continuous Paper, Increasing Production
(1868)

Circulation of the Times of London is 70,000
(1870)

The Pigeon Post into Paris: The First Important Application of Microfilm
(1870 – 1871)

The First Significant Series of Illustrations in a Daily Newspaper
(June 30, 1875)

The First Application of the Linotype
(July 3, 1886)

The First Photo-Interview
(September 5, 1886)

The Sierra Club
(May 28, 1892)

Northcliff Founds the Daily Mail; Circulation Soon Reaches 1,000,000
(1896)

Revealing a Hidden Image in a Newspaper Article
(1901 – October 24, 2012)

Forerunner of United Press International
(July 17, 1907)

Teletype Invented
(1914)

Auditing Circulation
(1914)

The First Radio News Broadcast
(August 31, 1920)

Times New Roman Debuts
(October 3, 1932)

The Bettmann Archive; the Beginning of the Visual Age
(1938)

After 1954 More News Was Distributed Electronically than on Paper
(1950)

UNIVAC Predicts the Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower
(November 4, 1952)

Computers Drive Linotype Hot Metal Typesetters
(1962)

The First General Typesetting Computers
(1963)

The First Magazine Cover Designed Using Computer Graphics
(July 1965)

Editing Terminals for Newspapers
(1973)

First Electronic Pagination System, Forerunner of Email and Instant Messaging
(1973)

Byte Magazine
(1975)

Public Access to Electronic Information in a Museum
(1979)

USENET: One of the First Computer Network Communications Systems
(1980)

CNN is Launched
(June 1, 1980)

U.S. Newspaper Program Microfilms Newspapers
(1982)

The Declining Role of Print in Total Information Flow
(1983)

Moderated Newsgroups
(1984)

Daily Audited Circulation Greater Than Ten Million Printed Copies
(1994)

Free Online Classified Advertisements
(March 1995)

The First Television Show Broadcast over the Internet
(November 23, 1995)

www.nytimes.com
(January 19, 1996)

NewspaperARCHIVE.com
(1999)

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
(April 2001)

Metroblogging
(November 2003)

The National Digital Newspaper Program
(March 2004)

The World's Fastest Newspaper Offset Press
(2005)

AOL Buys The Huffington Post
(May 9, 2005 – February 7, 2011)

Adoption of User-Generated Content by Mainstream Media
(July 7, 2005)

Twitter: "What Are You Doing?"
(October 2006)

Google's AdWords to Place Ads in Print Newspapers
(November 6, 2006)

Newspaper Advertising in Partnership with Yahoo
(November 20, 2006)

"An Uncensorable System for Mass Document Leaking"
(December 2006)

YouWitnessNews
(December 5, 2006)

Wikileaks Manifesto
(December 31, 2006)

The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper Moves to the Web
(January 1, 2007)

The Leading Classified Advertising Service
(September 2008)

The First National Newspaper to Shift From a Daily Print Format to an Online Publication
(October 28, 2008)

An Election Reported Interactively in Real Time
(November 4, 2008)

Change.gov is Founded
(November 5, 2008)

Pulitzer Prizes Will be Awarded for Online Journalism
(December 8, 2008)

The Largest U.S. Newspaper to Become an Internet-Only News Source
(March 17, 2009)

Changing the Advertising Model for General News Reporting
(May 21, 2009)

"Revenue at Craigslist is Said to Top $100,000,000"
(June 9, 2009)

"The Web Pries Lid off Iranian Censorship"
(June 23, 2009)

The Death of Michael Jackson Impacts the Internet
(June 25, 2009)

USA Today Adds eBook Sales to its Bestsellers List
(July 22, 2009)

"What's a Big City Without a Newspaper?"
(August 9, 2009)

The First College Journalism Course Focused on Twitter
(September 1, 2009)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism
(October 3, 2009)

Google Announces Real-Time Search
(December 2009)

Google Living Stories Project
(December 8, 2009)

Introduction of Apple's iPad
(January 27, 2010)

Social Media Interviews the President
(February 1, 2010)

The First Pulitizer Prizes for Internet Journalism
(April 12, 2010)

The Library of Congress to Preserve All "Tweets"
(April 14, 2010)

Google Announces "Replay" for Twitter
(April 14, 2010)

Using the Twitter Archive for Historical Research
(April 30, 2010)

After Five Years, More Than Two Billion Views Per Day
(May 16, 2010)

Wikileaks Installs an "Insurance File"
(July 29, 2010)

Twitter Has 175 Million Users
(October 30, 2010)

The Wikileaks U. S. Diplomatic Cables Leak
(November 28 – December 8, 2010)

Founder of Wikileaks to Publish his Autobiography
(December 27, 2010)

The First Independently Published Magazine Exclusively for the iPad
(January 2011)

The New York Times Recommendations Service
(January 31, 2011)

The First Major Print Magazine Publisher to Offer iPad Subscriptions
(May 9, 2011)

New Corporation Sells MySpace for $545 Million Loss
(June 29, 2011)

200 Million Tweets Per Day: 100 Fold Increase Since 2009
(June 30, 2011)

Leading British Tabloid Closed Because of Cell Phone Hacking Scandal
(July 7 – July 17, 2011)

Consumer Reports Began Generating More Revenue from Digital Subscriptions than from Print
(August 2011)

Signalling the Shift from Print to Digital and to More Accurate Metrics of the Effectiveness of Advertising
(November 30, 2011)

Pulitzer Prize in Journalism Awarded to an Internet-Only Publication
(April 16, 2012)

During Testimony over a Phone Hacking Scandal Rupert Murdoch Predicts the End of Print News Media
(April 26, 2012)

The Year In Graphics and Interactives from The New York Times
(December 30, 2012)

The Library of Congress Has Archived 170 Billion Tweets
(January 4, 2013)

Selling Off Print Media to Allow Fast-Growing Film & Television Assets to Grow Unencumbered by Legacy Print Businesses
(February 14, 2013)

Time Warner Spins off its Print Media Division, Time Inc.
(March 13, 2013)