Did you know ... the world's first newspaper was published more than 2,000 years ago, was called "Acta per diem" and appeared in the Roman Empire?

The first organ was the public information gazeta Roman Acta per diem, which occur daily since 59 BC Displayed throughout the city in public places where people used to gather, this newspaper was founded by Julius Caesar and not too different from the tabloids today. Thus, in the paper were inserted social and political news, details of criminal trials and executions, announcements of marriages, births and deaths, and even news about sporting and cultural events that took place at the Circus Maximus and the Colosseum. However, such organs of state information, such as the Soviet newspaper Pravda, Acta daily allowance was controlled and censored by the government.

 There is one other newspaper in those days, in the East. Chinese pao body information ("Report") was an official circular issued by the government, which began to be distributed with the coming to power of the Tang Dynasty in the seventh century and lasted until the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. Hand written first and then using wooden plates, pao present social and political news, the palace intrigues and any astronomical event (eg a meteorite fall) that could portend a time of plenty or famine.

Chinese officials originally published under the name Ti-pao (, Report of the palace "), then Ti-chan (,, Newsletter of the Court"), the newspaper also included information on the views and life events mandarins or senior officials servants.   In the early seventeenth century, newspapers had come in a form similar to that which we know today. The first sheet considered a "newspaper" in the true sense of the word, originally a trade newsletter that circulates among the merchants of Antwerp and Venice, Nieuwe Tijdinghen was published in the Netherlands of 1605.

 Outside the commercial news, the content and comments socio-political and foreign news first, given that Dutch merchants who travel frequently were a kind of "foreign correspondents" who brings a great deal of information from lands removed. Soon, in Amsterdam have been set and other Dutch newspapers. Called Coranti ("current news"), this device daily or weekly, only Dutch until 1620, when they began to be translated into English and French. A year later, in London, a stationer named Thomas Archer, edited a newspaper, but since it did not have a license to broadcast news, he was arrested. A colleague of Archer, Nathaniel Butter, obtained a license, becoming the "father of English journalism."

On 24 September 1621, he printed the English version of a Dutch newspaper, as "Coranti or news from Italy, Germany, Hungary, Spain and France." This century marked the emergence of newspapers in many countries: first journals were established in Austria (1620), Denmark (1634), Italy (1636), Sweden (1645) and Poland (1661).