Interesting Media Facts 4 | Newspaper

• It was a Gujarati who launched the first real newspaper in Malayalam. Devji Bhimji estabolished a printing press in Cochin in 1865 under the name of the Keralamitram Press and started a newspaper titled Keralamitram. It is regarded as the first newspaper in the Malayalam language1. In the initial stages the paper was issued thrice a month; later on it was published as a weekly. Besides news, the paper provided a wide range of reading fare, which by contemporary accounts maintained an exceptionally high standard.
• A German missionary  Rev. Hermann Friedrich Mögling brought out the first ever newspaper in Kannada, Mangalooru Samachara, in 1843.