Boston was Home to the First Newspaper in America with Multiple Issues

The Boston News-Letter wasn’t the first newspaper in America.

One example of an earlier publication was “The Present State of the New-English Affairs” by Samuel Green in 1689.

Another was “Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick” by Benjamin Harris in 1690, but this was quickly shut down because the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wasn’t a fan of some of Harris’ views.

Imagine that: a politician not liking the views and opinions of someone in the media.

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