Marchamont Nedham

Marchamont Nedham, also Marchmont and Needham (1620 – November 1678), was a journalist, publisher and pamphleteer during the English Civil War who wrote official news and propaganda for both sides of the conflict.

A "highly productive propagandist",^[1] he was significant in the evolution of early English journalism, and has been strikingly (if hyperbolically) called the "press agent" of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.^[2]

^ Baldwin, Geoff (2000), "The 'public' as a rhetorical community in early modern England", in Shepard, Alexandra; Withington, Phil (eds.), Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Place, Rhetoric, Manchester University Press, p. 207
^ Frank, Joseph (1980), Cromwell's Press Agent: A Critical Biography of Marchmont Nedham, 1620–78, Lanham, MD: University Press of America^{[page needed]}

[1] Baldwin, Geoff (2000), "The 'public' as a rhetorical community in early modern England", in Shepard, Alexandra; Withington, Phil (eds.), Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Place, Rhetoric, Manchester University Press, p. 207

[2] Frank, Joseph (1980), Cromwell's Press Agent: A Critical Biography of Marchmont Nedham, 1620–78, Lanham, MD: University Press of America^{[page needed]}

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