Introduction / Brendan Dooley -- Joining time and space : the origins. Philip of Spain: the spider's web of news and information / Cristina Beltran -- News networks between Italy and Europe / Mario Infelise -- The early German newspaper : a medium of contemporaneity / Johannes Weber -- Time, motion and structure in early modern communications. The birth of Maria de'Medici (26 April 1575) : hearsay, correspondence, and historiographical errors / Alessio Assonitis -- Making it present / Brendan Dooley -- Contemporaneity in 1672-1679 : the Paris gazette, the London gazette and the Teutschen Kriegs-Kurier / Sonja Schultheiss-Heinz -- "The blowing of the Messiah's trumpet" : reports about Sabbatai Sevi and Jewish unrest in 1665-1667 / Ingrid Maier & Daniel Waugh -- Inter-European spaces and moments. Handwritten newspapers as interregional information sources in Central and Southeastern Europe / Zsuzsa Barbarics -- Between the French gazette and the Dutch French language newspapers / Charles-Henri Depezay -- Antwerp and Brussels as Inter-European spaces in news narration / Paul Arblaster -- Offices of intelligence as communication infrastructures / Astrid Blome -- New methods and approaches. Narrating contemporaneity : text and structure in English news / Nicholas Brownlees -- Historical text mining and corpus-based approaches to the newsbooks of the Commonwealth / Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery and Scott Songlin Pia -- Afterword / Brendan Dooley.