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Also Known As Val Irvine McCalla
Born October 3, 1943 • Kingston • Jamaica
Died August 22, 2002 (aged 58) • England
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
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Samuel Irving Newhouse
American publisher
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Louis A. Godey
American 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
Black and white illustrated portrait of a woman with a calm expression, wearing a headscarf and traditional clothing, representing Indian freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
Aruna Asaf Ali
Indian political activist
Girardin, engraving 1881, after a photograph
Émile de Girardin
French journalist
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Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi
Malaysian writer
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Arthur M. Sackler
American physician
Tokutomi Sohō.
Tokutomi Sohō
Japanese author
Munsey
Frank Andrew Munsey
American publisher
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Richard Rogers Bowker
American editor and publisher
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Axel Springer
German publisher
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Alexander MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
Speaking truth to power
Jimmy Lai
Chinese-born British businessman
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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Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
British newspaper editor and proprietor
Lord Beaverbrook, 1941.
Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
British politician and journalist
William Thomas Stead, c. 1890.
William Thomas Stead
British journalist
Rothermere, Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
British publisher