William Duane (journalist)

William Duane (1760–1835) was an American journalist.
Born in Newfoundland, he moved to Calcutta in 1788, and founded the "Bengal Journal" in 1791. Later that year, after the Governor-General of India John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth shut down the "Bengal Journal" for a libel against the French royalist government in exile in Calcutta, Duane founded his second newspaper, "The World". He was deported for a libel in this newspaper in 1794 and emigrated to the United States. 
Before he died of yellow fever on September 8, 1798, Benjamin Franklin Bache hired Duane to work on the "Aurora" newspaper and printing business. Duane married fellow journalist Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache at the Christ Church in Philadelphia on June 28, 1800. They lived at 316 Market Street some time after their union. After 25 years of marriage, Bache told Thomas Jefferson in 1824 that she had the qualities of "a Roman matron".
According to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson attributed his presidential victory to this paper. Jefferson named Duane a lieutenant colonel, and by the War of 1812 he was an adjutant general. He died in Philadelphia in 1835 and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
William John Duane was his son.