Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse. It took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news stories
by watching TV or reading newspapers.
Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life the 18th century. Many countries have
different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print? Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?