Max Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964), was a Canadian politician, businessman, and most significantly, a publisher. At the height of his career, Lord Beaverbrook was the most influential voice in the British press. Beaverbrookâs papers had millions of readers, the most successful of which was the Daily Express, which sold 4,300,000 copies in 1960, more […]
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Lord Beaverbrook: the press baron of Fleet Street
Posted by: daviddorsey | November 27, 2012 | No Comment |
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Tags: British contributions, edward viii, newspapers, power of the press, world wars
Tags: British contributions, edward viii, newspapers, power of the press, world wars
Harry Luce, Time inc. and the power of the press
Posted by: daviddorsey | October 23, 2012 | No Comment |On March 3, 1923, Time Inc. launched its first issue of Time Magazine. This innovative publication was the first weekly news magazine in existence, and would go on to be a resounding success. Quickly breaking from its original print format, Time started to advertise on the infant radio networks. From there, a short, 15 minute […]
Arthur O. Sulzberger, the Pentagon Papers, and the power of the press
Posted by: daviddorsey | October 1, 2012 | No Comment |Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who died on Saturday the 29th of September, was the publisher of the New York Times and the chairman and chief executive of The New York Times Company from 1963 to 1992. Mr. Sulzberger presided over an incident that is a text book definition of the power of the press when the […]
William Randolph Hearst goes to war, goes to Congress, and takes on FDR (unsuccessfully)
Posted by: daviddorsey | September 10, 2012 | No Comment |William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), dropped out of Harvard in his senior year and took control of one of his father’s business interests: the San Francisco Examiner. Eventually Hearst would go shopping for a paper in New York City, and purchased the New York Journal in 1895. Turn of the century New York was a battlefield […]