1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Bos, Birte); 3. The formation of public news discourse and metadiscursive terminology; 4. "We have in some former bookes told you": The significance of metatext in 17th-century news (by Brownlees, Nicholas); 5. Conceptualisations, sources and agents of news: Key terms as signposts of changing journalistic practices (by Bos, Birte); 6. Changing modes of reference and shifts in audience orientation; 7. News in space and time (by Claridge, Claudia); 8. Changing genre conventions and socio-cultural change: Person-mention in 19th-century English advertisements (by Palander-Collin, Minna); 9. Late Modern English death notices: Transformations of a traditional lay audiences (by Borde, Sarah); 10. Medical news in England 1665-1800 in journals for professional and lay audiences (by Taavitsainen, Irma); 11. Transgressing boundaries and shifting styles; 12. Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres: A case study of murder reports (by Cecconi, Elisabetta); 13. Speech-like syntax in written texts: Changing syntactic conventions in news discourse (by Haselow, Alexander); 14. Playing upon news genre conventions: The case of Mark Twain's news satire (by Ermida, Isabel); 15. Index