William Duane (journalist)

William Duane was an Irish-American journalist. He moved to Calcutta in 1788, and founded the Bengal Journal in 1791. Later that year, after the Governor-General of India John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth shut down the Bengal Journal for a libel against the French royalist government in exile in Calcutta, Duane founded his second newspaper, The World. He was deported for a libel in this newspaper in 1794 and emigrated to the United States where he founded the Aurora.^[1][2][3]

William John Duane was his son.

References

1. Phillips, Kim T., "William Duane, Philadelphia's Democratic Republicans, and Origins of Modern Politics," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 101 (1977), pp. 365-87.
2. Pasley, Jeffery L., The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper politics in the early American republic, Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001, pp. 176-95.
3. https://www.worldcat.org/title/tyranny-of-printers-newspaper-politics-in-the-early-american-republic/oclc/65523649&referer=brief_results