{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Short description|Special issue of a newspaper}}
[[File:Honolulu Star-Bulletin December 7th 1941.jpg|thumb|Extra edition of the ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'' following the attack on Pearl Harbor]]
A '''newspaper extra''', '''extra edition''', '''special edition''', or simply '''extra''' is a special issue of a newspaper published outside the regular schedule to report major or breaking news that arrived too late for the standard edition, such as the outbreak of war, the assassination of a public figure, or key developments in a high-profile trial.<ref name=sloan />{{rp|261}}
It evolved from the earlier broadside, a single-sided sheet intended to be posted in public places.<ref>''Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress'', 1922, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WisvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA59 p. 59]</ref>
Beginning in the mid-19th century United States, street vendors, usually called newsboys, would call out, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" when selling extras.<ref>Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allen, ''Keywords in News and Journalism Studies'', {{ISBN|0335221831}}, p. 90</ref> This phrase later became a catchphrase often used to introduce dramatic events in films.<ref>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]</ref>
With the rise of radio, extras became largely obsolete in the early 1930s in areas with good radio coverage, replaced by breaking news bulletins.<ref name=sloan>W. David Sloan, ''et al.'', ''eds.'', ''American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices'', 2002, {{ISBN|0786451556}}.</ref>{{rp|36}} However, extras have occasionally appeared into the 21st century. For example, several North American newspapers published an extra on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, to report the terrorist attacks, even if they had not issued extras for years prior.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Journalism}}
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