How does that joke go B次元官网网址� whatB次元官网网址檚 black and white and red (read) all over? A newspaper.
This week marks National B次元官网网址paper Week in Canada, where today there are roughly 100 daily newspapers and more than 1,000 community newspapers.
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The very first printing presses in Canada were in Halifax, Quebec City and Montreal an what is now Canada, the first official newspaper was the Halifax Gazette, whose two-page first edition hit the streets March 23, 1752.
B次元官网网址papers have seen some significant changes in the last decade, jumping off the page, and onto our screens, so to speak.
National B次元官网网址paper Week
B次元官网网址� Kelly Levson (@KellyLevson_NC)
This year, the theme of the week is the hashtag #NowMoreThanEver, calling your attention to the important role newspapers continue to play in a democratic society.
Oh, and itB次元官网网址檚 an election year.
So, consider opening that box on the corner of the street you walk by daily, and grab some of that paper stuff you see inside. A lot of people are hard at work making sure itB次元官网网址檚 an informative, creative, interesting, thought-provoking piece of work, worth your time.
As writer Arthur Miller once mused, B次元官网网址淎 good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.B次元官网网址�
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