Type | Weekly newspaper [1] |
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Publisher | Joseph Stockdale [1] |
Editor | Joseph Stockdale |
Founded | 1784 [1] |
Language | English |
Headquarters | St. George's, Bermuda [1] |
The Bermuda Gazette was a Bermudian English-language weekly newspaper. Published from 1784 to 1803 by Joseph Stockdale (and by his three daughters from 1803 to 1816), [2] [3] it was Bermuda's first newspaper. [1] [2] In 1782, the Bermudian Legislature arranged for a printing press, and brought Stockdale from England to run it. [3]
Joseph Stockdale and the newspaper were honoured on Bermuda stamps in 1984 on the 200th anniversary of Bermuda's postal service and newspaper. [3]