Abstract
This article includes a comparative analysis of eight of the most important newspapers published in eighteenth-century Europe: the London Gazette, the Gazette de France, the Gaceta de Madrid, the Gazeta de Lisboa, the Gazette de Amsterdam, the Gazette de Leyde, the Gazette de Cologne and the Morning Chronicle. It surveys the contents of the 550 issues and more than eleven thousand articles published by these eight newspapers from January to June 1784. This analysis reveals patterns in the contents of each periodical and what kinds of news it was likely to publish, as well as the interconnections between these newspapers and how they exchanged information. It also demonstrates the spatial elements of news, showing the speed at which information moved in Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century.
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