Acta Urbis: Ancient Rome newspapers

An organized system of informing the public about political and social topics existed even in ancient Rome. Thanks to Gaius Julius Caesar, in 59 BC, newspapers were founded, a written medium of mass communication as we know them today. Recognizing the importance of information, particularly on political matters, one of Caesar's first actions, after becoming consul, was to compile and publicly publish news about the work of the Senate and public events. Basically, the subject of this paper is information through newspapers and the functioning of the acta urbis. Accordingly, the paper discusses the issues of organizing and publishing newspapers, their content, as well as how the news reached a wider reading public than the one in Rome. Although they were written in the city itself and had the characteristics of local newspapers, the acta urbis were read throughout the empire.