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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two sets of sacred documents — the Gutenburg Bible and the Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucius — chronicle two religious traditions separated by cultures and entire continents. We might not know of ...

A few weeks ago, I got the chance to see "Gutenberg! The Musical" at the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York. Tonight, the show officially opens on Broadway, and I have some thoughts. If you're ...

For just the second time in their history, Forward Theater Company will present a musical as part of their season. This time, it's in the form of the popular Broadway hit, Gutenberg! The Musical! by ...

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