The country in which the first color editions of the newspaper appeared

The first color edition newspapers appeared in Germany, with color covers issued by the Düsseldorf Pictorial in 1902. However, in 1893, the New York World newspaper in the United States began to use some color elements, such as illustrations or advertisements.

Ancient Rome.

In 60 B.C., the ancient Roman statesman Julian Caesar wrote down the events of the city and the country on white wooden boards to inform the citizens. This is the oldest newspaper in the world.

In 1450, Gutenberg, a German in Europe, invented metal movable type printing, and printed newspapers began to be published. In 1493, newspapers of Roman circulation carried news of Columbus's voyage. Newspapers at the time were only published when high-profile events took place.

In 1609, Thorne published the weekly newspaper Avisus in Germany, the world's first newspaper published regularly. Soon, newspapers became popular in Europe, and the coverage of the news generally relied on well-connected merchants.

**First published in 1650 by the German Timotritz. Although it has only been released for about 3 months, it is the first in the world**. The first European newspaper appeared in Norway in 1358.

China (1) Zhou Chao said.

As we mentioned earlier, the Zhou Dynasty in the pre-Qin era had historians who recorded events and musicians who collected styles, so some people speculated that historical books such as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Book of Songs were probably newspapers at that time, and they were in the nature of propaganda and communiqués. Those who hold this view are mainly foreign scholars, such as Bai Ruihua, an American journalism scholar who has taught in the journalism department of Yenching University for many years. However, most of this claim is just a bold assumption by scholars and does not have sufficient historical evidence.

Nor is there any text of the "newspaper" of the Zhou dynasty recorded in any of the pre-Qin texts. Therefore, this argument cannot be established.

2) The Han Dynasty said.

Those who hold this view are represented by Ge Gongzhen, a well-known journalistic historian in China. In his History of Chinese Newspapers, there is a section devoted to the newspapers of the Han Dynasty, entitled "Han Youdi Baohu?" He believed that the Han Dynasty had a vast territory, prosperous industry and commerce, developed culture, and a close relationship between the vassal kings and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

It should be admitted that these facts show that the Han Dynasty did have certain objective conditions for copying and distributing newspapers, and it did have the institution of "Di", but there is no similar record of "Di Bao came into being", and the word "Di Bao" cannot be seen in the existing Han Dynasty documents. Therefore, the claim that there were newspapers in the Han Dynasty cannot be established.

In addition, there are Eastern Jin Dynasty sayings, etc., we will not introduce them one by one here. I remember when I was in college, a teacher once said to us, he said that to do scholarship requires such a method of "bold speculation and careful argumentation", which is also very suitable for the study of our journalism history, we need to boldly speculate on the things behind some materials based on the existing materials, but we need to find a lot of historical materials to prove the ideas, Ideas are not enough.

According to the available materials, the more reliable version is that Chinese newspapers began in the Tang Dynasty.