Explain with reasons: Knowledge of history is essential for newspaper articles.

Reason: many newspaper writings deal with past events and their background, which needs correct knowledge of history.

• Newspapers publish special articles on anniversaries of important events, for example when 75 years are completed after the 'Quit India' movement.
• They carry editorials, columns like 'What happened in history on this day', reviews and special supplements on historical events and personalities.
• To explain any present news properly, its historical background often has to be given.
• If the writer does not know history well, wrong or misleading information may reach lakhs of readers.

Hence knowledge of history is essential for newspaper articles.