Title: Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper
Publisher: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0295988738
ISBN 13: 9780295988733
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Dimensions: 1.016 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 27.178 centimeters depth
Weight: 671 grams

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The first newspaper arrived in England in 1620 and sparked a huge demand for up-to-the minute reports on domestic and world events. Men and women in Renaissance England were addicted to news, whether from the battlefields of Europe, or the scandal-filled salons of its courtiers. Newspapers commented on politics, crime, omens, bad weather, natural disasters, and strange apparitions.

Breaking News traces the development of the newspaper in England, from its origins in manuscript letters and imported corantos in Shakespeare's England, to the introduction of daily newspapers, regional journals, and specialist magazines around 1700, as well as the first stirrings of American journalism. The examples of early journalism illustrated here reveal the indelible mark the early English newspaper has left on modern news culture.

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Chris R. Kyle is associate professor of history at Syracuse University. Jason Peacey is lecturer in history at University College London.

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