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    • Deciphered Shorthand in Justice Hyde’s Supreme Court Notebooks, Calcutta, India, 1780–1782
    • “Guilty of Publishing Only”: Jury Nullification as a Legal Defense in the Eighteenth Century
    • The effects of transparency cues on news source credibility online: An investigation of ‘opinion labels.’

August 25, 2018 by Andrew Otis

Review of Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper in Ei Somoy

Ei Somoy reviewed my book in their August 25 paper (page 8).

August 13, 2018 by Andrew Otis

Review of Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: Truth to Power

Open Magazine reviewed my book.

August 3, 2018 by Andrew Otis

Review of Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper by Andrew Otis

The Asian Review of Books reviewed my book.

June 30, 2018 by Andrew Otis

Review: An old twisted tale of press freedom

Business Standard newspaper published a glowing review of my book Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper.

Business Standard Sunil Sethi review of Hicky's Bengal Gazette

June 29, 2018 by Andrew Otis

Review of Hicky’s Bengal Gazette

G. Krishnan of India Today published a review of my book Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper.

India Today Review of Hicky's Bengal Gazette

June 16, 2018 by Andrew Otis

India’s first newspaper covered corruption and scandal (and sexual practices) fearlessly

I published an op-ed in Scroll.in about James Augustus Hicky and the importance of Hicky’s Bengal Gazette.

June 15, 2018 by Andrew Otis

How India’s first newspaper exposed the corrupt British East India Company

Quartz India interviewed me about my book Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper.

May 26, 2018 by Andrew Otis

When the Founder of India’s First Newspaper Refused to Surrender His Right to Print

The Wire published an excerpt of my book Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper.

May 25, 2018 by Andrew Otis

Hindustan Times Picks

Hindustan Times, a Indian daily newspaper, selected my book Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper as one of their top picks.

Hindustan Times Hicky's Bengal Gazette Top Pick

May 24, 2018 by Andrew Otis

Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: Read an excerpt from a book on India’s first newspaper, the people it featured

FirstPost published an excerpt of my book Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper.

May 13, 2018 by Andrew Otis

The Story of the first Indian Newspaper

I published an article (link) in the Mumbai Mirror, a leading Indian daily newspaper about my book, Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper.

Syndicated in the Bangalore Mirror, the Pune Mirror and the Ahmedabad Mirror.