How It All started
The FounderIn 1896, Alfred Harmsworth founded the Daily Mail. He wanted to make a U.S. style newspaper with the influence of Joseph Pulitzer, the owner of the New York World. Alfred helped edit multiple papers as a young lad and teamed up with his brother, Harold Harmsworth, whom both started a paper together. Harold had financial ability and capacity for attracting advertising and Alfred who had a sense of the public taste. Later on, Alfred decided to try his own newspaper and then came the Daily Mail.
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About the NewspaperThe Daily Mail is a newspaper corporation that is based in London and reports on foreign issues. The paper can be traced back to the Hull Packet. It eventually merged with the Hull Evening News and finally became the Daily Mail. The first published newspaper from the Daily Mail came to be on May 4, 1896 which then became one of Britain's best-selling newspaper at the end of the 20th Century. It became the first newspaper to have the banner headline that went across the page, the first one to include a women's section, and the first truly national newspaper.
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The ExpansionAlfred always wanted to use the latest development of communication, so he decided to use the set up overseas news-gathering offices that were located in New York and Paris. Along with that, he exploited in expanding the British railway system to distribute the newspapers to people all over Britain so they can read it while eating their breakfast. Alfred also used the latest technology by including mechanical typesetting on a lion-type machine. He also bought three royal machines to produce 200,00 newspapers an hour. Harmsworth claimed the Daily Mail as the cheapest newspaper and frequently said, "A penny newspaper for one halfpenny", which eventually became the slogan for the newspaper.
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