Combining news parts was a media selecting practice, a well known observation work done by early modern media actors. The media effect of this practice was the creation of new echoes of news stories. And these media echoes were traveling in Europe news systems: #republishing was a thing, and media echoes are a powerful way to investigate news flows of the past.
Read more in my "The Dynamic Of Communication And Media Recycling In Early Modern Europe" chapter: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110643541-002/html
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The Dynamic Of Communication And Media Recycling In Early Modern Europe: Popular Prints As Echoes And Feedback Loops was published in Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures on page 9.
It's called #republishing.
Read other news, select good stories, copy + paste the texts and images, slightly rearrange the sentences, combine the stories into a new publication, and: Et voilà, offer your stuff as a new news item.
In 1684, someone combined three topics that were published elsewhere, and then republished them in a new pamphlet. #NewsHistory
Meet the pamphlet's story about severe weather, a ghost story, a wonder flour in this thread, #histodons and #bookhistory nerds:
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Daniel Bellingradt 
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