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Cambridge Journalism F. Stanhope Hill, Editor of The Cambridge Tribune. So far as this writer has been able to discover, the first newspaper printed in Cambridge was the New England Chronicle and Essex Gazette, published by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall from a chamber in Stoughton Hall, assigned to them by the Provincial Congress in May, 1775. From this press, says a contemporary, issued streams of intelligence and those patriotic songs and tracts which so preeminently animated the defenders of American liberty. But when the American army removed from Cambridge a year later the Chronicle and Gazette seems to have suspended publication. It is very evident there was no newspaper in this town in July, 1786, for when a letter to the selectmen of Cambridge requesting their concurrence in a county convention, to be held in Concord on August 23, in order to consult upon matters of public grievances and find out means of redress, with its answer, was ordered to be printed by our select