Early Days of Press Regulation

Early publications during the 17th century told news and rumours. News periodicals started to be produced to provide news periodically (i.e. once a week, twice a week, daily). At the start of the of the 1600s, the right to print was strictly controlled in England. The first newspaper in the english language was printed in Amsterdam by Joris Veselser around 1620. The demand for news increased around The Civil War - but the publications generally supported one side or the other.