Coranto
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Corantos or currantoes were early informational broadsheets and precursors to newspapers. Beginning around the 14th century, a system developed[where?] in which letters containing news and philosophical discussion were sent to a central collecting-point to be bundled and redistributed to various correspondents. The banking-house of Fugger was particularly known for its organized system of collecting and routing such letters,[1] which often could be seen by outsiders. Regular, printed corantos emerged in 1609 in Europe, leveraging off the "extension of the system of 'posts' whereby the imperial couriers were permiited to carry letters for individuals. The beginnings of that extension of the system cannot be documented before the middle of the sixteenth century, and occur first in Austria and Germany. From which it followed that the earliest dated, and numbered, publication of news [occurred] in Central and West Europe."[2] This method of disseminating news continued until the 18th century. The term "newspaper" was not coined till 1670; Prior to that, a variety of terms were used to describe this genre, including "paper", "newsbook", "pamphlet", "broadsheet", and "coranto".
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The Fugger family, German bankers, issued regular newsletters in the fifteenth century and are generally recognized as the initiators of news dissemination in the West.
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