PRINT MEDIA INTRODUCTION • The earliest civilizations only had oral communications. • If they had news to tell, they ran to the nearest person to spread the word to others, who each did the same until everyone had heard the news. • Then people began to write down their news in picture form and then in crude languages where symbols stood for words and letters. • It took the inventions of paper and the printing press for print media to come into regular use. Once it did, there was no turning back. • Print media is the printed version of telling the news, primarily through newspapers and magazines. • Before the invention and widespread use of printing presses, printed materials had to be written by hand. • It was a painstaking process that made mass distribution impossible. • In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg introduced his invention of a movable type printing press with type that was much easier to change, making the mass production of news pages possible.
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