The term press comes from the printing press of Johannes Gutenberg in the sixteenth century and which, from the eighteenth century, was used to print newspapers, then the only existing journalistic vehicles.

Regular television news broadcasts on ABC began soon after the network signed on its initial owned-and-operated television station (WJZ-TV, now WABC-TV) and production center in New York City in August 1948.

The news media is the industry that includes newspapers, TV journalism, and every other form that communicates current events and analysis to people. The local newspaper is part of the news media, and so is the evening report your parents watch on TV or the public radio program they start the day with.

newspaper, a publication and form of mass communication and mass media usually issued daily, weekly, or at other regular times that provides news, views, features, and other information of public interest and that often carries advertising.