Weekly Journal
Weekly Journal, or Saturday's Post and the subtitle: with freshest advices foreign and domestick was an English weekly newspaper . The sheet first appeared on Saturday 15 December 1716, comprised six pages, was published by the printer Nathaniel Mist (1675–1737) and quickly developed into a high-circulation Jacobean sheet, in which Daniel Defoe also regularly contributed. It was renamed Mist's Weekly Journal on May 1, 1725 and Fog's Weekly Journal in 1730 , and had a circulation of more than 10,000 copies at peak times.
In January 1728, dung, which on several occasions with the authorities and king decided George I came into conflict for publishing against, given the arrest of two of its editors Robert Walpole -looking products in the wake of the discovery of a Jacobite conspiracy by Francis Atterbury , located to drop off to Boulogne . From there he tried to keep producing the paper. The issues of September 7th and 14th appeared as one number; the September 21 issue was the last.
Individual evidence
- ↑ spelling at that time.
- ↑ Pat Rogers: Nathaniel Mist, Daniel Defoe, and the Perils of Publishing. Oxford Journals. Vol. 10, Issue3. Pp. 298-313.
- ↑ Louis Edward Ingelhart: Press freedoms: a descriptive calendar of concepts, interpretations, events, and court actions, from 4000 BC to the present. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1987. ISBN 0-31325-636-5 . P. 82
- ↑ Louis Edward Ingelhart: Press freedoms ... p. 82
- ↑ Dictionary of National Biography volume 38.djvu / 62
literature
- Stanley Morris: The English newspaper. 1622-1932. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-52112-269-4 . P. 95 ff.