International news networks -- The 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami in Dutch news sources: the functioning of early modern news dissemination / Joop W. Koopmans -- "We have tidings out of Polonia": English corantos, news networks and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / Anna Kalinowska -- Transylvania in German Newspapers: Systems of Reporting and the News Stories of Gyorgy II Rakoczi, 1657- 1658 / Virginia Dillon -- Part 2. Exploring the boundaries: news for entertainment -- Propaganda, and satire news of the Sussex dragon / Andrew Hadfield -- "Loyal hind", "The prince of thieves": crime pamphlets and royalist propaganda in the 1650s / Lena Liapi -- Intensive ephemera: the Catholick Gamesters and the visual culture of news in Restoration London / Adam Morton -- Part 3. News and social history -- Rumour, newsletters, and the Pope's Death in early modern Rome / John M. Hunt -- "A true reporte": news and the neighbourhood in early modern domestic murder texts / Emma Whipday -- Life after death: gender, idealized virtues, and the obituary in eighteenth-century newspapers / Catherine Tremain -- Part 4. News in literary forms -- "This straunge newes": plague writing, print culture, and the Invention of news in Thomas Dekker's The wonderful yeare (1603) / Viviana Comensoli -- English news plays of the early 1620s: Thomas Middleton's A game at chess and Ben Jonson's The staple of news / Lena Steveker -- "This is attested truth": the rhetoric of truthfulness in early modern broadside ballads / Nick Moon