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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts) Wed Apr 24, 2013, 06:40 AM Apr 2013

April 24, 1704, The Boston News-Letter, becomes 1st continuously published newspaper in N. America

First published on April 24, 1704, The Boston News-Letter is regarded as the first continuously published newspaper in British North America. It was heavily subsidized by the British government, with a limited circulation. The colonies’ first newspaper was Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, which published its first and only issue on September 25, 1690. In 1718, the Weekly Jamaica Courant followed in Kingston. In 1726 the Boston Gazette began publishing with Bartholomew Green Jr. as printer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_News-Letter

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