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Historically the most notable of British newspaper proprietors have been Lord Northcliffe of the Daily Mail, Lord Beaver-brook of the Daily Express, John Walter of The Times and C. P. Scott of the Manchester Guardian. The public service philosophy of John Walter and C. P. Scott lives on in their papers; it is echoed in the surviving ethos of John Reith’s BBC and in the news output of British independent television. Northcliffe and Beaverbrook by contrast were commercial profit-seekers, politically partisan, original in their journalism, and immensely powerful individuals.
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R. C. K. Ensor, England1870–1914, Oxford History Series (1936) p. 311.
Colin Seymour-Ure, The Political Impact of Mass Media (1974) pp. 48–50. See also
Simon Jenkins, Newspapers — the Power and the Money (1979) pp. 19–24;
Hamilton Fyfe, Northcliffe (1930); and The Times, The History of The Times, Vol. IV (1952).
Charles Wintour, Pressures on the Press (1972) pp. 177–82;
A. J. P. Taylor, Beaverbrook (1972); and
Arthur Christiansen, Headlines All My Life (1952).
The History of The Times, vols I to V; and Martin Walker, Powers of the Press (1982) ch. 2.
David Ayerst, Guardian — Biography of a Newspaper (1971); and
A. P. Wadsworth (ed), C. P. Scott and the Making of the Manchester Guardian (1946).
Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times (1983).
Jenkins, Newspapers — The Power and the Money, pp. 38–40; Wintour, Pressures on the Press, pp. 186–7; and Cecil King, Strictly Personal (1969).
Asa Briggs, Governing the BBC (1979) pp. 206–9.
Grace Wyndham Goldie, Facing the Nation (1977) pp. 156–60.
Alastair Hetherington, Guardian Years (1981) p. 11.
The meeting of 12 May was widely reported in the press next day. An account of it appears in the book by Robert Harris, Gotcha! (1983) pp. 83–6.
Philip Schlesinger, Putting ‘Reality’ Together (1978) pp. 212 and 242.
Ibid., pp. 168 and 180.
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Hetherington, A. (1985). Owners, Editors and Audiences. In: News, Newspapers and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18000-4_2
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