The Daily Mirror is a tabloid newspaper. It was founded in 1903 chiefly as a journal for women, and modified in 1904 as a general illustrated newspaper. Today it is known as a sensationalist tabloid supporting the Labour party. Research Daily Mirror
Sir Alfred Charles William Harmsworth was an Irish publisher. He was born in 1865 and died in 1922. Alfred Harmsworth had an insight into what the public wanted, and revolutionished British newspapers by producing the first tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mail, in 1896 which included gossip and pictures rather than the dry court reports and the like of the established and unpopular newspapers. In 1903 he started the Daily Mirrornewspaper as a paper for women and later bought The Times and lowered its retail price to increase sales. His concept of low cost, large volume sales, was applied to a set of affordable encyclopaedias published in 1906 as The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, and later re-issued as The Harmsworth Universal Encyclopaedia in about 1922. Research Alfred Harmsworth
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