Vintage photo c1917 of British newspaper and publishing magnate Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe).


Vintage photo circa 1917 of British newspaper and publishing magnate Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe). Northcliffe (1865 - 1922) founded the Amalgamated Press in 1888 and is famed for buying struggling newspapers and transforming them to entertain the mass market. He founded the Daily Mail in 1896, the Daily Mirror in 1903 and bought The Times in 1908. Northcliffe wielded enormous influence over public opinion and was appointed Director for Propaganda towards the end of World War One by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Photo by Harris & Ewing.


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