ALFRED HARMSWORTH Alfred Harmsworth was the son of an English lawyer, who was born on 15 July 1865, near Dublin. Attended a private school in St.John 's Wood, where he began to interest the news and thus began editing the journal of the school. After leaving school, Alfred found work in Youth, an illustrated magazine for boys belonging to Illustrated London News. The great success of the time of publication was a magazine called Tit-Bits, which sold about 900,000 copies per month. In 1888, Alfred decided to join his brother, Harold Harmsworth, to publish a kind of magazine like Tit-Bits, the magazine that called Answers to Correspondents. Alfred told his readers that all the questions answered would be sent, and those of general interest would be published in the magazine. Answers to Correspondents was a huge success and in less than four years have sold millions of copies a week. This success allowed him to finance a magazine for children, Comic Cuts, and a magazine for women, the Forget-Me-Nots. His interest in the publication of newspapers starting in 1894. The Evening News was almost in bankruptcy when it
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was purchased by Harmsworth. With some modifications in terms of presentation, the newspaper said it had now reached the 394.447 sales. With all this success Harmsworth decided to publish a new journal based on the type of newspaper published in the United States. Thus arises the May 4, 1896 the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail was the first newspaper in the UK for a new type of readers, a type of players that needed something simpler, smaller and more readable than what had previously been available. A major innovation was the header of the title he held the entire width ...

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