Newspaper extra

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{{Short description|Special issue of a newspaper}}

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A newspaper extra, extra edition, special edition, or simply extra is a special issue of a newspaper issued outside the normal publishing schedule to report on important or sensational news which arrived too late for the regular edition, such as the outbreak of war, the assassination of a public figure, or even latest developments in a sensational trial.{{rp|261}}

It replaced the earlier broadside, a sheet printed on one side only and intended to be pasted to the walls of public places.Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1922, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WisvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA59 p. 59]

Starting in the mid-19th century United States, newspaper street vendors would shout "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" when selling extras.Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allen, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies, {{ISBN|0335221831}}, p. 90 This became a catchphrase often used to introduce events into a narrative in films.David R. Stokes, The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America, 2011, {{ISBN|1586421891}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Gs8_AyJdK7EC&pg=PA115 p. 115]

With the development of radio, extras became obsolete in the early 1930s (in areas that had good radio coverage), replaced with breaking news bulletins.W. David Sloan, et al., eds., American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices, 2002, {{ISBN|0786451556}}.{{rp|36}} That being said, extras have occasionally appeared into the 21st century. Multiple North American newspapers published an extra on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, to report on the terrorist attacks that morning, even if they had not done so for years before.{{cite web |title=PHOTOS: Star front pages Sept. 11-17, 2001 |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/09/11/photos_star_front_pages_sept_1117_2001.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302121157/https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/09/11/photos_star_front_pages_sept_1117_2001.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 2, 2017 |website=Toronto Star |access-date=March 20, 2023 |language=en}}{{cite news|url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/179531233/|title = Behind the coverage of a tragic event|last = Swanson|first = Lillian|newspaper = The Philadelphia Inquirer|date = September 16, 2001|accessdate = September 12, 2023|page = C10|quote = 20 people worked to put together the paper's first Extra edition since O.J. Simpson's acquittal in 1995, and only the fifth in 50 years.|url-access = subscription}}