Viscount Northcliffe

1896: The Daily Mail, founded by Lord Northcliffe, was first published, priced one halfpenny.

TODAY 1896: The Daily Mail, founded by Lord Northcliffe, was first published.

Lord Northcliffe, owner of the Times and Daily Mail, ended the war as director of propaganda in enemy countries, while Lord Beaverbrook, later the owner of Express newspapers, was minister of information.

Stanley Washburn of the Chicago Daily News served in this capacity for Britain's Lord Northcliffe, and became extraordinarily influential in Russia where Czar Nicholas awarded him a medal for helping the Russian war effort.

At that point, Lloyd George had been in office for about six months having, with the support of Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail, deposed his fellow liberal Herbert Asquith.

Or as media magnate Lord Northcliffe once said: "News is something someone wants to suppress.

Echoing such critics, Windle reserved his own favorite and characteristic biological metaphors for those he most despised: Lords Salisbury and Norfolk were the "spawn of Belial," Lord Northcliffe a "foetid gutter snipe," and Lloyd George, that "leprous Welsh Calvinist ...

Speaking of good or bad news, Lord Northcliffe, the British publisher, said years ago, "News is what somebody wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."

A starting point for students investigating major themes in Western journalism studies, the book also includes superficial 'resumes' of key figures (including John Stuart Mill, Walter Lippmann, Lord Northcliffe and Joseph Pulitzer), intended to provide a springboard for further research.

Lord Northcliffe, the great British press baron, put it well when he said, "News is what somebody, somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." The United States historically has made a careful practice of offering journalists the protection to which they are entitled under what international humanitarian law calls the principle of distinction.

In the period before the First World War its guests included a young Winston Churchill, press baron Lord Northcliffe and Boer War hero General Kitchener.