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Born 1739 • London? • England
Died November 16, 1812 (aged 73) • Teddington • England • (Anniversary in 3 days)
Founder “The Times”
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John Walter, II
English journalist
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Joseph Moses Levy
British journalist
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
British publisher Robert Maxwell in a suit and patterned tie, seated and looking to his right, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
Czechoslovak-born British publisher
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William Rastell
English printer and lawyer
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Benjamin Harris
British journalist
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Edward Blount
English publisher
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William Morris
British artist and author
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Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
British newspaper editor and proprietor
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John Thaddeus Delane
British journalist
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John Walter III
English publisher
Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
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Robert Thomson
Australian journalist and editor
Eleanor Medill Patterson.
Eleanor Medill Patterson
American publisher
Portrait of John Hay Whitney wearing glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking directly at the camera.
John Hay Whitney
American sportsman and businessman
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Carlos P. Romulo
Filipino diplomat
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Alicia Patterson
American journalist and publisher
The only woman whose name appears on the Declaration of Independence
Mary Katharine Goddard
American printer, publisher, and postmaster
Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
Joseph Medill
American publisher
William Allen White
William Allen White
American journalist