Photography,too, has come a long way. I can't go into depth in this article, but the evolution of photography goes hand in hand with newspaper history and if you are interested, see a Brief History of Photography or take a look at some great links about the history of photography on the internet. Ten years ago, AP photgraphers carried chemical, processing tanks, thermometers and printing paper to set up makeshift darkrooms wherever their assignments took them. Once a minute 24 hours a day, AP meets a newspaper deadline. From Bangkok to Brussels to Little Rock, it is the largest news agency in the world, serving 1,700 newspapers and 6,000 television and radio stations in the United States and 8,500 outlets in more than 110 countries.
Photos taken the night before are front page news in the morning edition.
Green settled in Halifax, built a printing plant, and installed his printing press. His first paper was published March 23, 1752. It was 10X15 inches, had one leaf of two pages with two broad columns on each page looking similar to the image a couple of paragraphs up. And, of course, we all know that over the following centuries the newspaper industry spread out across Canada, and the two to four pages increased and got bigger and bulkier and better, at least in size and print quality, in the last century. The Question of Ethics and the Rising Empire of the Newspaper Magnate SEE Home Page SEE Links and Bibliography .