? - 1864

Newspaper publisher.

An Englishman affiliated with the Tory Party, William Churchill went to Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1832, where he worked for the British embassy as a merchant and as a newspaper correspondent, particularly for the Morning Herald. In 1840, he founded the first private Turkish-language newspaper in the Ottoman Empire, Ceride-i Havadis ( Journal of events). This broke the monopoly of the Ottoman state's official paper, Takvim-i Vekayi, published since 1831. Churchill's lively coverage of the Crimean War (1854 - 1856) attracted a new audience to newspaper reading. Ceride-i Havadis was published irregularly, roughly every one or two weeks, until 1860, when it began daily publication. The paper closed when Churchill died in 1864, although his son Alfred revived it for one year.

Bibliography

Lewis, Bernard. The Emergence of Modern Turkey, 3d edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

— ELIZABETH THOMPSON

William Churchill may refer to:

• William Churchill (ethnologist)
• William Churchill (Ipswich MP) (1661–1737), MP for Ipswich 1707–1714 and 1715–1717 [1]
• William Churchill (Dorchester MP) (1627–1702), MP for Dorchester 1685–1689 [2]

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