Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press in 1553, could not have foreseen that his invention would give rise to the first mass media outlet: the press. In 1636, the Frenchman Théophile Renaudot established the first newspaper, "La Gazette," nearly eighty years after the invention of the printing press. Napoleon Bonaparte took this printing press with him on his invasion of Egypt in 1798, and there the first newspaper was born […]
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Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press in 1553, could not have foreseen that his invention would give rise to the first mass media outlet: the press. In 1636, the Frenchman Théophile Renaudot established the first newspaper, "La Gazette," nearly eighty years after the invention of the printing press. Napoleon Bonaparte took this printing press with him on his invasion of Egypt in 1798, and there the first newspaper was born […]