Newspaper Facts for Kids

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A newspaper is a publication printed on paper and issued regularly, usually once a day or once a week. It gives information and opinions about current events and news. Usually people like to read them to stay informed about their local city, state or country. Newspapers can be delivered to one's home, by subscription. One also can buy a newspaper at a store or at a newsstand. Recycling of paper is common. It may be converted to new paper, for example.

Newspapers usually have many topics. They usually include political events, crime, business, sports, and weather news. Newspapers use photographs to illustrate stories; and also often include comics and other entertainment, such as crosswords and horoscopes. Many have opinion sections. These sections print the opinions of people who work for the newspaper. The opinions, which are usually on stories in the news, are called editorials. Opinion sections usually also print short letters from people who read the newspaper.

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Edition of DeNieuwe Tijdinghe dated 1619
Person reading a newspaper
Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
Title page of Carolus' Relation from 1609, the earliest newspaper
Josef Danhauser, Newspaper readers, 1840.
Fanciful drawing of a general store by Marguerite Martyn in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of October 21, 1906. On the far left, a group of men share reading a newspaper.
The front page of the Helsingin Sanomat ("Helsinki Times") on July 7, 1904
International newspapers on sale in Paris, France
Soldiers in an East German tank unit reading about the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 in the newspaper Neues Deutschland
The newsroom of Gazeta Lubuska in Zielona Góra, Poland
The office building of Tyrvään Sanomat in Sastamala, Finland
The Telegraph Printing House in Macon, Georgia circa 1876
A newsboy in 1905 selling the Toronto Telegram in Canada
Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, seen in its Hebrew and English language editions
TheYomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world
The editorial staff of the newspaper Severnyi Kray in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1900
Newspaper press in Limoges, France
Newspaper vendor, Paddington, London, February 2005
1938 Dutch newspaper advertisement for women's clothing sold at C&A stores

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