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

<p>The&nbsp;<em>Boston News-Letter&nbsp;</em>wasn&rsquo;t the first newspaper in America.</p> <p>One example of an earlier publication was &ldquo;<a href="https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/mastheads/nef1a2.htm" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Present State of the New-English Affairs</a>&rdquo; by Samuel Green in 1689.</p> <p>Another was &ldquo;<a href="https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/first-newspaper-published-in-the-colonies.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick</a>&rdquo; by Benjamin Harris in 1690, but this was quickly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=187" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">shut down</a>&nbsp;because the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wasn&rsquo;t a fan of some of Harris&rsquo; views.</p> <p>Imagine that: a politician not liking the views and opinions of someone in the media.</p> <p><a href="https://jamesonsteward.medium.com/boston-was-home-to-the-first-newspaper-in-america-with-multiple-issues-18415d14c389"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>