The newspaper is an old medium with a history dating back to the invention of the printing press. As a medium of conveying news it came to maturity in the 19th century, in the age of empires. Innovations in the printing press and long-distance travel meant that more newspapers could be printed and more could be delivered and read. Leading this innovation was the Times, a London based paper which in this era became the leading daily. The newspaper was the one and only media of the day, and it rose to prominence. Though the newspaper has had many battles to face over the 20th century, the revolutionary mediums of sound and vision, radio and television, chief amongst them, the newspaper was never so threatened by any medium as it was by new media: the internet.
