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#WomensHistoryMonth 2023 is coming to a close. I hope you enjoyed my daily tweets about #WomenWarReporters in the #FirstWorldWar as much as I did. You can re-read the short biographies in the thread below. Stay tuned for more research on fascinating women journalists during #WWI!
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In the seventeenth century, Hamburg's printer and newsdealer Georg Greflinger published an influential newspaper: the "Nordischer Mercurius".

Yet, only a few copies are digitized:
brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/pe…

A short thread about #earlymodernnews for #newshistory and #bookhistory
In August 1674, Greflinger commented (once more) on the uncertainty of news flows present in Europe, and the levels of #fakenews and #falsenews being copied and spread in the European media systems. By the way, this was the normal case for all newspapers at the time.
Greflinger used this phrase in 1674 to commend on the common practices of the news business:

Everyone says their best / even though you have nothing certain (in German: "Ein Jeder sagt sein Bästes / Und hat man noch nichts festes")
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