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Origins of English Journalism From Minstrels to Corantos
The piece traces early English journalism from minstrel messengers through scriveners and intelligences offices to the first corantos. It notes how royal, religious, and printing restraints spurred underground news networks and the fight for a free newspaper press, leading to the 1641 launch of England's first weekly newspaper by Samuel Pecke.
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London
England
Samuel Pecke
Canada
William Caxton
France
Queen Elizabeth
Robert Devereux
Earl of Essex
Devereux
Scriveners
Ben Jonson
Register
Examiner
John Chamberlain
Dudley Carleton
James I
Scrivener
Newsie
Amsterdam
Holland