Northcliffe

American

[nawrth-klif] / ˈnɔrθ klɪf /

noun

Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.

Northcliffe British

/ ˈnɔːθklɪf /

noun

Viscount. title of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth. 1865–1922, British newspaper proprietor. With his brother, 1st Viscount Rothermere, he built up a vast chain of newspapers. He founded the Daily Mail (1896), the Daily Mirror (1903), and acquired The Times (1908)

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A nonstop crossing by air between North America and Europe had been a dream since 1913, when British media magnate Lord Northcliffe offered a 10,000-pound prize — nearly $600,000 today — to the first to accomplish it.

From Washington Post

Mr Wander, author of From Marconi to Melba, said Daily Mail newspaper baron Viscount Northcliffe decided to sponsor the first-ever live professional performance.

From BBC

With the assistance of the Air Ministry … Lord Northcliffe has been able to arrange, on behalf of the Times, for an attempted flight from Cairo to Cape Town, a distance of more than five thousand miles.

From Nature

Attractive, stylish and photogenic, she was perfect casting for the tabloids that had been ushered in by the press baron Lord Northcliffe, whose infamous motto was “Get Me a Murder a Day”.

From The Guardian

That great journalist Hannen Swaffer was once returning from his lunchtime refreshment while he was editor of the Weekly Despatch when the steps of Northcliffe House confused his feet.

From The Guardian

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