Lord northcliffe biography
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Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865 – August 14, 1922) was a Britishnewspaper and publishing magnate, who revolutionized newspaper and magazine publishing in Britain.
Lord northcliffe biography
He was famous for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to be lively and entertaining for the mass market.
Life and work
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth was born on July 15, 1865 in Chapelizod, near Dublin, Ireland, and was educated at the Stamford School in Lincolnshire, England.
He left school at the age of 16 to become a free-lance journalist. At first he worked for the boy’s magazineYouth, and in 1886 was hired by Edward Iliffe to edit his magazine, Bicycling News.
Early career
Alfred Harmsworth soon founded his first newspaper, Answers to Correspondents, and was joined by his brother Harold, who had a talent for business matters.
The Harmsworths promised their readers that they would publish answers on every question of general interest