• Middle East

Main article: History of Middle Eastern newspapers

• Industrial Revolution

By the early 19th century, many cities in Europe, as well as North and South America, published newspaper-type publications though not all of them developed in the same way; content was vastly shaped by regional and cultural preferences.[16]Advances in printing technology related to theIndustrial Revolutionenabled newspapers to become an even more widely circulated means of communication. In 1814,The Times(London) acquired a printing press capable of making 1,100 impressions per minute.[17]

Soon, it was 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 BostonTranscript.[18]Penny press papers cost about one sixth the price of other newspapers and appealed to a wider audience.[19]In France,Émile de Girardinstarted "La Presse" in 1836, introducing cheap, advertising-supported dailies to France. In 1848,August Zang, an Austrian who knew Girardin in Paris, returned to Vienna to introduce the same methods with "Die Presse" (which was named for and frankly copied Girardin's publication).[20]

• Categories

Vladimir LeninreadingPravda

While most newspapers are aimed at a broad spectrum of readers, usually geographically defined, some focus on groups of readers defined more by their interests than their location: for example, there are daily and weekly business newspapers and sports newspapers. More specialist still are some weekly newspapers, usually free and distributed within limited areas; these may serve communities as specific as certain immigrant populations, or the local gay community.

• Frequency

  • Daily

Adaily newspaperis issued every day, sometimes with the exception of Sundays and occasionally Saturdays,[21]and often of somenational holidays. Saturday and, where they exist,Sunday editionsof daily newspapers tend to be larger, include more specialized sections and advertising inserts, and cost more. Typically, the majority of these newspapers’ staff work Monday to Friday, so the Sunday and Monday editions largely depend on content done in advance or content that is syndicated. Most daily newspapers are published in the morning. Afternoon or evening papers are aimed more at commuters and office workers.

UK—daily vs. Sunday

Main article: Sunday editions

In the UK, unlike most other countries, "daily" newspapers do not publish on Sundays. In the past there were independent Sunday newspapers; nowadays the same publisher often produces a Sunday newspaper, distinct in many ways from the daily, usually with a related name; e.g.The TimesandThe Sunday Timesare distinct newspapers owned by the same company, and an article published in the latter would never be credited toThe Times.

• Weekly and other

Main article: Weekly newspaper

Weekly newspapersare published once a week, and tend to be smaller than daily papers. Some newspapers are published two or three times a week; in the United States, such newspapers are generally called weeklies[citation needed]. Some publications are published, for example, fortnightly.