The Reekan Chronicle

Die Reekan Chronik (known in english speaking countries as The Reekan Chronicle, known as the Reeka Chronicle until 2000)  is a both German and American newspaper. It is published daily except on sundays. As of May 19th 2013, It is the worlds oldest newspaper. Having been founded in 1554.

Origins
In Lubeck, Germany in the early 1500's, The Reeka Family wished to let their distant relatives and townspeople to know the latest family news. They decided to hire Hans Schmerzen, a local bookmaker to write it for them. Rather than just make the one edition, they asked Hans to make the publishing a weekly idea and so every week for 10 years, the Reeka Family successfully had their news published and it went out to the townspeople.

Hans Schmerzen was paid around $2 per page per edition, which was very expensive at the time as there would be 5-10 editions per week. Since the Reeka Family were wealthy, they could afford such a luxury. But in 1565, Chlöe Reeka passed away and therefore the family wished, in her respects to discontinue the newspaper in her honor. The newspaper was on a hiatus for 35 years until another descendant of the Reeka family:Karl Reeka I decided to reboot the news but this time broadening it to news around the town, rather than just family news. He also created the first official logo for The Reeka Chronicle,

The Reekan Chronicle 1601-1824
Under the ruling of Karl Reeka, The Reeka Chronicle was broadened to more local news than just family news. These news stories widened the audience of The Reeka Chronicle and made it become more popular. In 1785, Karl's grandson, Axel took his idea of his newspaper to the USA. He contacted his cousin, Frederick Reeka IV who set up a printing press and created the first english newspaper known as "The Reeka Chronicle". It was an instant success.