"A little fun and amusement... is my journalism"

It is arguable that the meekly paper TIT-BITS signposted the beginnings of pop- journalism. And that its founder, George Newnes, was apioneering genius quite the equal of Alfred [Lord Northcliffe] Harmsmorth. Tet Newnes remains a largely unknown, unpublicised distant figure compared with Northcliffe. He is being brought into fresh focus, bowever, by an Australian writer, Kate Jackson, and what follows is an examination of Newnes, the man who proclaimed ...