Avisa Relation oder Zeitung

Avisa Relation oder Zeitung was one of the first news-periodicals in the world.

[2] Before 2005 there was a dispute whether the Avisa or the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, which was printed in Strassburg by Johann Carolus, was first.

New evidence found in 2005, however, suggests that the Relation started as early as 1605.

[citation needed] There is also a differing view, which does not regard either of these two publications as newspapers in a formal sense.

Authors like Stanley Morison[1] make a distinction between newsbooks (weekly news publications in a quarto format) and later folio-sized newspapers.