have been reading about the history of the newspaper (as we know it now) in 17th century england, how the first foreign corantos containing british news found their way to the english reading public via the netherlands despite the english ban on publication of home news, how england got from the newsbooks to what started to look like the modern newspaper - how features we take for granted - pagination, columns, periodicity of publication, title and emblem, even that quintessential feature of the modern newspaper - the headline - were introduced one bye one by different publishers and printers over a long period of time. how the early modern newspaper editor faced the same controversies of censorship and conflicts with government as the ones today. the history of the newspaper ought be made recommended reading for journalists.