History of Newspapers

The Brief History of The Daily Mirror

• Founded in 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth. 
• Sold to Lord Rothermere in 1914.
• In 1917 one copy cost 1p.
• Pitched to the middle-class reader. 
• Transformed into a lower class newspaper after 1934 - lowbrow audience. 
• Best-selling tabloid in 1960.
• Gave financial support to the 2003 anti-war protest. 

The Brief History of The Daily Telegraph

• Founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier.
• A controversial interview with the German Kaiser in 1908 damaged Anglo-German relation which added to tensions in the build-up to WW1. 
• During WW2, The Daily Telegraph covertly helped in the recruitment of code-breakers with their crossword as a test. 
• Sunday Telegraph launched in 1960. 
• 1.4 Million readers in 1980.
• Electronic Telegraph launched in 2004.
• Purchased by the Barcley Brothers for £665m in 2004.
• Largest circulations for the broadsheet in the UK.