Northcliffe's Legacy : Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896-1996

by Catterall, Peter; Seymour-Ure, Colin; Smith, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780312232566
• ISBN10: 031223256X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The essays collected here explore the popular press since 1896--from Harmsworth's Daily Mail to Maxwell's Mirror. The history of the popular press has always been about more than big headlines and big profit margins. Personal ambition, partisan loyalty, institutional rivalry, and public accountability join commercial opportunism as the book's recurrent themes.

Author Biography

Colin Seymour-Ure is Professor of Government at the University of Kent.
Adrian Smith is Senior Lecturer in Historical Studies at the University of Southampton New College.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Foreword	vii
Notes on the Contributors	xi
Introduction: Why Not More Press History?	1	(8)
Northcliffe's Legacy	9	(18)
Colin Seymour-Ure
Northcliffe: Proprietor as Journalist	27	(18)
Jean Chalaby
Popular Press and Empire: Northcliffe, India and the Daily Mail, 1896--1922	45	(26)
Chandrika Kaul
`Where there's a tip there's a tap': the Popular Press and the Investing Public, 1900--60	71	(26)
Dilwyn Porter
Circles of Confusion and Sharp Vision: British News Photography, 1919--39	97	(24)
Peter Twaites
All the News that's Fit to Broadcast: the Popular Press versus the BBC, 1922--45	121	(28)
Sian Nicholas
The Relationship of Reuters and other News Agencies with the British Press, 1858--1984: Service at Cost or Business for Profit?	149	(20)
Donald Read
The Fall and Fall of the Third Daily Herald, 1930--64	169	(32)
Adrian Smith
The `Max Factor'-a Mirror Image? Robert Maxwell and the Daily Mirror Tradition	201	(26)
James Thomas
Index	227