Newspapers

 are a vital source of information in the American West at the time of Red Dead Revolver and Red Dead Redemption.

Red Dead Revolver
The Brimstone Epitaph newspaper is used to display the player's statistics after completing a chapter. The reporter, typesetter, publisher, and newspaper boy for the paper is Jody, who can be found hawking the paper outside of the paper's offices at the corner of 1st Street and Main Street in Brimstone.

Red Dead Redemption
The player is able to purchase newspapers in all settlements of the gameplay world for one dollar. Newspapers are normally sold outside train stations or near a stagecoach. The Blackwater Ledger is the only available newspaper.

Newspapers give the player access to side missions, ambient events, and will report on game play events associated with player choices. For example, killing a person could result in the murder being reported in the newspaper.

The year of publishing for an edition of "The Blackwater Ledger" is given in roman numerals in the top left corner of the page for all editions, except for the final edition obtainable on completion of the game, where the year is in roman numerals just below the title. All editions are dated "MCMXI" (1911) except the last edition which is dated "MCMXIV" (1914), confirming the year in which Red Dead Redemption ends as 1914.

Trivia

 * Newspapers are the period-appropriate equivalent of the TW@ internet cafes and radio news in Rockstar's previous game Grand Theft Auto IV.
 * Newspapers cannot be bought in Free Roam.
 * In the bottom right corner of the newspaper, players can find one of many cheat codes in the game.
 * Newspapers cannot be removed from the "Kit" section of the player's inventory.
 * If a player carefully stands on top of a stack of newspapers and jumps on them, they will make a metallic sound.
 * The final purchasable issue of The Blackwater Ledger serves as an epilogue of sorts to Red Dead Redemption and contains stories mentioning the beginnings of Wold War I.
 * Sometimes, if one is to re-purchase the final issue in 1914, the newspaper will rearrange the story columns.