How did newspapers in the 1700s-1800s get up-to-date stories from all over the world?

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How could a newspaper in the Britain report on something that happened in the Americas?

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As others have said, they didn’t.

My Nanny May (my cousin’s grandmother who lived 1905-1995) used to tell us when we were kids how when she was 7 the Titanic sank – and the horror was intensified by how slowly the information trickled in and how much worse the disaster seemed to get over the next 2 weeks of updates. And this in the 20th century.

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