Author Description

A network of networks: spreading the news in an expanding world of information / Paul Goring -- Truth and trust and the eighteenth-century Anglophone newspaper / William B. Warner -- Searching for Dr. Johnson: the digitisation of the Burney Newspaper Collection / Andrew Prescott -- Spreading the news within the clerical profession: newspapers and the church in the north of England, 1660-1760 / Daniel Reed -- All the news that's fit to write: the eighteenth-century manuscript newsletter / Rachael Scarborough King -- Christoff Koch (1637-1711): Sweden's man in Moscow / Heiko Droste and Ingrid Maier -- What the Posol'skii prikaz really knew: intelligencers, secret agents and their reports / Daniel C. Waugh -- News of travels, travelling news: the mediation of travel and exploration in the Gazette de France and the Journal de l'Empire / Marius Warholm Haugen -- Foreign news reporting in transition: James Perry and the French Constitution ceremony / Johanne Kristiansen -- Diplomatic channels and Chinese whispers: reception and transformation of the Moscow uprising of 1648 in Sweden and France / Malte Griesse -- From piety to profit: the development of newspaper advertising in the Dutch Golden Age / Arthur der Weduwen -- Mercury as merchant: the advertisement of novels in eighteenth-century provincial English newspapers / Siv Goril Brandtzag -- Establishing a state-controlled network for news trading in the Swedish Baltic provinces in the late seventeenth century: causes and consequences / Kaarel Vanamolder -- News versus opinion: the state, the press, and the northern enlightenment / Ellen Krefting -- Was there an enlightenment culture of news? / Andrew Pettegree.