1. Preface; 2. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media (by Ratia, Maura); 3. Part I. Changing or maintaining conventions?; 4. Of hopes and plans: Newsmakers' metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age (by Bos, Birte); 5. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks: A corpus-based analysis of Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus (by Cecconi, Elisabetta); 6. Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700-1760) (by Brownlees, Nicholas); 7. A modest proposal in The Gentleman's Magazine: A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisement (by Sklar, Howard); 8. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784-1983 (by Wang, Ying); 9. Part II. Widening audiences; 10. British popular newspaper traditions: From the nineteenth century to the first tabloid (by Conboy, Martin); 11. The Poor Man's Guardian: The linguistic construction of social groups and their relations (by Claridge, Claudia); 12. Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines: A comparison between the Portuguese O Panorama and the British The Penny Magazine in 1837-1844 (by Sousa, Jorge Pedro); 13. From adverts to letters to the editor: External voicing in early sports match announcements (by Chovanec, Jan); 14. The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers (by Nevala, Minna); 15. Part III. New Practices; 16. Chapter 12. Narrative vs. "objective" style: Notes on the style of news (agency) reports on violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (by Stenvall, Maija); 17. Chapter 13. Astride two worlds: Emergence of Italian-American identity in the Massachusetts immigrant press (by Ryan, John M.); 18. Chapter 14. Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity: Multimodal humour in early American comic strips (by Ermida, Isabel)