Appraisal of Al-Ahram of Egypt as an African Elite Newspaper

Today newspapers are the major practitioners of journalism. News is the main and magnificent dish served by them. It is the major product and principal support for journalism operations. And newspapers are the initiators of journalism. The practice of journalism occurs in many other media, of course, but when one thinks about journalism, what it is, where it happens, what it does - chances are one thinks about newspapers. It has always been so, because for centuries newspapers were the only news medium. Radio broadcasting started about 1901 and television broadcasting from 1939. The Web has been around from about 1990. Newspapers, however, have existed for centuries since the German, Johan Gutenberg, invented the printing press in 1440s. Indeed, even back to the Roman Empire