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25-09-2010, 12:57 AM
We often read some newspapers named gazette like The Saudi Gazette and The Daily Gazette
But ....Where does that word come from ? Why is it called a gazette ? i
Here is the answer
Why is a small newspaper called a “gazette”? i
In 59 B.C. Julius Caesar introduced the first handwritten daily newspapers
which were posted in prominent locations around Rome.
However, it wasn’t until long after Gutenberg’s printing press was
invented that news became an industry. During the mid-sixteenth century,
citizens of Venice paid to hear public readings of the news, and
the price was a small copper Italian coin called a gazetta, which gave us
the word gazette for a newspaper.
But ....Where does that word come from ? Why is it called a gazette ? i
Here is the answer
Why is a small newspaper called a “gazette”? i
In 59 B.C. Julius Caesar introduced the first handwritten daily newspapers
which were posted in prominent locations around Rome.
However, it wasn’t until long after Gutenberg’s printing press was
invented that news became an industry. During the mid-sixteenth century,
citizens of Venice paid to hear public readings of the news, and
the price was a small copper Italian coin called a gazetta, which gave us
the word gazette for a newspaper.