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Rachael Gallagher BA JSS Yr 1 History of Journalism What factors enabled the Daily Mail to be so immediately successful when it was launched in 1896? The Daily Mail was the first newspaper in Britain to sell one million copies. This was achieved in 1900, four years after the paper was first launched, but the newspaper was notably successful from the start, selling 300,000 copies the first day it was launched. The Daily Mail was started by Alfred Harmsworth, later known as Lord Northcliffe, who is known as one of the first great press barons. The newspaper's immediate success is due to a combination of factors, some due to Northcliffe, and others social and technological factors in the era the newspaper was released in. The first factors to take into consideration are the changes that had already occurred in British press in the nineteenth Century, prior to the launch of the Daily Mail. There...

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