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.