The London weekly press (see additionally beneath Periodicals). See Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC, 520 U.S. 1848), as a half penny evening newspaper in assist of Mr. Gladstone’s policy. After a while the plucky attempt needed to be given up, and the Journal des Débats turned a night paper. The historical past of the provincial press of England begins in 1690 with the weekly Worcester Postman (now Berrow’s Worcester Journal). Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper started as an unstamped illustrated journal at a penny in September 1842. In 1843 it was enlarged in size, and the worth raised to threepence. Its shares might then be purchased for threepence or fourpence each. From a weekly sale of 33,000 in 1848 it rose to 170,000 in 1861. In anticipation of the abolition of the paper duty, the worth was then lowered to a penny, and its circulation continued to increase. The “Society” weeklies, Truth (1877), Vanity Fair (1868)-with a separate cartoon as a particular function, well-known for the creative work of Pellegrini, Leslie Ward and others-and the World (1874), introduced a brand new “note” into regular journalism, Mr Edmund Yates’s success with the World largely contributing to the rise of the non-public fashion which he did so much to introduce; and Truth made its proprietor, the politician Mr Henry Labouchere, one of the vital prominent men of the day, not so much for its aggressive Radicalism as for its vigorous exposures of all kinds of public charlatanry.
In December 1906 the Outlook was bought by its proprietor, Mr C. S. Goldman, to Lord Iveagh, and Mr Garvin resigned the editorship. In 1905 the Observer handed into the hands of Lord Northcliffe, his first editor being Mr Austin Harrison, a son of Frederic Harrison. Most, though not all, of its early staff had already labored underneath Mr Cook, when he was editor of the Morning Chronicle (from 1848 to 1854). In its literary remark it gave much space to articles of pure criticism and scholarship, and almost each writer of contemporary note on the Tory side contributed to its columns. Illustrated weekly papers. Mr Shorter gave up the editorship of those two weeklies in 1901, and grew to become editor of a brand new illustrated weekly, the Sphere, with the proprietorship of which came also to be related the Tatler. Among purely literary weeklies the Athenaeum discovered a rival in the Academy, based in October 1869 by Dr Appleton and edited by him. The publication of Sunday editions of the daily papers has not found the same favour in England as within the United States. The oldest of the Sunday papers, the Observer (1791), Sunday papers.
In 1899 a Sunday Daily Mail and a Sunday Daily Telegraph appeared simultaneously; however public opinion was so violent against seven-day journalism that both were withdrawn. Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, an extreme Radical paper with a large circulation, dates from May 1850. Other Sunday papers got here later into existence-the People (1881), the Sunday (afterwards Weekly) Sun (1891), the Sunday Special (1897)-with which in 1904 was amalgamated the Sunday Times (1822). The Referee (1877), a paper with a powerful sporting and theatrical interest, is well-known for the humorous contributions by “Dagonet” (G. The Times drew consideration to this defacement of the coin of the realm, and so gave it a greater commercial still. In 1896 the Academy was bought by Mr Morgan Richards, and for some years was edited by Mr Lewis Hind, amalgamating Literature (a weekly which had been began by The Times) in 1901; and subsequently below changed proprietors it was successively edited by Mr Teignmouth Shore and Mr Anderson Graham. The rise of the stamp duty in 1797 altered its worth to sixpence, and the circulation sank from 3000 to 800. It was bought in 1801 by Edward Baines, who first started the insertion of “leaders,” and whose family left an impress not solely on journalism however on literature in the North of England.
Journalism as a profession for girls got here, however, to be extensively resorted to, partly via its obvious recommendation in a day when women’s training required another outlet, for those who had to earn their residing, to that of the teaching occupation; partly, and pari passu, by way of the immense increase in girls readers and the immensely elevated publicity given in newspapers to matters of primarily feminine interest. The rise in ladies-writers usually, novelists, dramatists, poets, reacted on their connexion with journalism; the increased “respectability” of journalism made it easier for them to work aspect by aspect with males; and progressively no person thought the introduction of ladies into this sphere something out of the common; a lady journalist, in reality, was much less remarkable than a lady physician. The sphere of action of the lady journalist was quickly certainly not confined to the “ladies’ papers,” or to the writing of columns on dress or cookery for such normal journals as discovered it helpful to domesticate feminine readers; ladies invaded every other area of journalism, particularly the massive new area of “interviewing” and fashionable gossip.