The word is derived from the Italian gazzetta, a name given to informal news or gossip sheets first published in Venice in the mid-16th century. (Some historians speculate that the word was originally the name of a Venetian coin.)

What was the original meaning of the word Gazetta?

Gazette is a loanword from the French language, which is, in turn, a 16th-century permutation of the Italian gazzetta, which is the name of a particular Venetian coin. Gazzetta became an epithet for newspaper during the early and middle 16th century, when the first Venetian newspapers cost one gazzetta.

Who made the gazette?

The Gazette of the United States was an early American newspaper, first issued in 1789, that was friendly to the Federalist Party. Its founder, John Fenno, intended it to unify the country under its new government.