George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880-1910: Culture and Profit. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Kate Jackson. George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880-1910: Culture and Profit. (The Nineteenth Century.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. xi, 293. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0317-2.

In the years 1880-1914, a crucial shift in the tone and quality of journalism began to manifest itself in Britain. Referred to by contemporaries as the New Journalism, this movement towards a mass press featured entertainment, gossip, sports, crime, pictorial news, interviews, human interest stories, and many other features characteristic of modern tabloid journalism. Indeed, this was a ...