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English newspaper writing dates from the 17
th
century. At the close of the 16
th
century short news pamphlets began to appear. Any such publication either presented
news from only one source or dealt with one specific subject. Note the titles of some of the
earliest news pamphlets: “Newenewes, containing a short rehearsal of Stukely’s and
Morice’s Rebellion” (1579), “Newes for Spain and Holland” (1593), “Wonderful and
strange newes out of Suffolke and Essex, where it rayned
only from time to time and
cannot be classed as newspapers, though they were unquestionable the immediate
forerunners of the British press.
The first of any regular series
of English newspapers was the Weekly Neweswhich
first appeared on May 23, 1622. It lasted for some twenty years till in 1641 it ceased
publication. The 17
th
century saw the rise of a number
of other news sheets which, with
varying success, struggled on in the teeth of discouragement and restrictions imposed by
the Crown. With the introduction of a strict licensing system
many such sheets were
suppressed, and the Governments, in its turn, set before the public a paper of its own –
The
London Gazette, first published on February 5, 1666. The paper was a semiweekly and
carried official information, royal decrees, new from abroad, and advertisements.
The rise of the American newspaper, which than was brought onto American soil by
British settlers, dates back to the late 17
th
, early 18
th
centuries.
It took the English newspaper more than a century to establish a style and a standard
of its own. And it is only by the 19
th
century that newspaper English may be said to have
developed into a system of language means which forms a separate functional style.
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