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Assess whether the Northcliffe Revolution is a useful way of understanding developments in the UK press in the period 1890-1930?
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(a) Assess whether the 'Northcliffe Revolution' is a useful way of understanding developments in the UK press in the period 1890-1930? THE NORTHCLIFFE REVOLUTION USEFUL OR NOT? Introduction The intention of this paper is to explore the notion that Lord Northcliffe, the owner of popular papers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as the Daily Mail, had such a pivotal role in the press of the epoch that he could be easily described as possessing such incredible power as to revolutionise a growing industry, such as that of the print based press. To be able to develop upon, or dismantle, such a widely debated topic of the era in which the press industries boomed and caused this vast and historical moment of the public communications field, I intend to analyse both the suggestions which support and the suggestions which disagree with the notion that Northcliffe had such a pivotal role in defining how...
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