Which of these best explains why newspapers of the Renaissance differed in form from those we know today? Newspapers were modest single sheets because the printing press could not be used to print on both sides of a sheet of paper and interest in the form had not quite yet taken off. Newspapers were modest single sheets because paper was scarce. Newspapers were modest single sheets because coverage of foreign events was censored by the Crown, leaving only local and domestic events to take up space. Newspapers were modest single sheets because paper was scarce and government censorship typically allowed for coverage of only foreign events.