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Which newspaper did Henry Fielding write while studying law?
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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
While studying for the bar, Henry Fielding edited and largely wrote a thrice-weekly newspaper titled the Champion; or, British Mercury, which was published from November 1739 to June 1741.1