William Duane (journalist)

William Duane was an Irish-American journalist. He moved to Calcutta in 1788, and founded the Bengal Journal in 1791. Later that year, after the Governor-General of India John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth shut down the Bengal Journal for a libel against the French royalist government in exile in Calcutta, Duane founded his second newspaper, The World. He was deported for a libel in this newspaper in 1794 and emigrated to the United States where he founded the Aurora.[1][2][3]

William John Duane was his son.

References

  1. ↑ Phillips, Kim T., "William Duane, Philadelphia's Democratic Republicans, and Origins of Modern Politics," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 101 (1977), pp. 365-87.
  2. ↑ Pasley, Jeffery L., The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper politics in the early American republic, Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001, pp. 176-95.
  3. ↑ Pasley, Jeffrey L (1 January 2001). ""The tyranny of printers": newspaper politics in the early American republic". University Press of Virginia. Retrieved 9 September 2016 – via Open WorldCat.


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