Newspapers today face challenges with competition from social media and technology. When printing began more than 600 years ago, Johannes Gutenberg could have never imagined the role his invention ...

Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press, which led to “The Printing Revolution.” Johannes Gensfleisch zur ...

In the Oct. 20 issue of the Stoughton Journal (along with the Canton Journal, Holbrook Sun and Randolph Herald), ran Philip Leo McCarron’s column with a serious misinterpretation of world history of ...

FILE - Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are pictured in New York in April 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on printing 150 Bibles, but increasing demand motivated him to produce 30 ...

Next, in 1450, Gutenberg finally perfected his device and made his first wholly successful print, which happened to be a Latin book about making speeches. Things picked up spectacularly from there, ...

In 1439, Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press with movable type ushered in a new era of mass communication, democratizing access to information and revolutionizing the spread of ideas.

The printing press is considered to be one of the greatest inventions of all time. It kickstarted a revolution and transformed the way ideas are communicated across the globe. Ten years later, the ...

After Johann Gutenberg died and was buried in 1468, a monument was erected on his grave that called him “Inventor of the art of printing” and “Deserver of the best from all nations and tongues.” No ...

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Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...