George Stiff

George Stiff

George Stiff (1807-1873) was an English engraver and newspaper proprietor.

Stiff worked as foreman of the engravers in the "Illustrated London News" before becoming a newspaper proprietor himself in the 1840s. A paper called "The Illustrated Weekly Times" failed after a few weeks, but "The London Journal" (started 1845) was a huge success as a penny fiction weekly. By 1847 Stiff was able to begin the "Weekly Times": this "would eventually become one of the four high-circulation threepenny Sunday papers which dominated the mid-century middle-market for news, with "Reynolds's [Weekly] Newspaper" (1850-1923), "LLoyd's Weekly Newspaper" (1842-1918), and the "News of the World" (1843-1910)." [Andrew King, "The London Journal", Ashgate, 2004, pp. 67-8]

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