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Harmsworth’s Daily Timesaver, 1901: A transatlantic case study in the tabloidisation of reader time Abstract The topic of the thesis is the production of arguably the world’s first tabloid newspaper, on New Year’s Day, 1901, after New York World proprietor Joseph W Pulitzer invited his British counterpart Alfred Harmsworth to guest edit the World as… Continue reading Doctorate abstract

The departure of the final few British service personnel from Germany in March marks the end of a remarkable and often forgotten story, which started when the guns of the Great War fell silent just over a century earlier. It’s a story of a British colony in the heart of Germany, of cooperation, of conflict… Continue reading National newspaper feature

Western Daily Press Up on the high moorland of Penwith as you rise from Penzance towards the far coast is a lost world strewn with the remains of old tin and copper mines. From the engine sheds looming in the mist to the chimney stacks, saved forever in granite, to the craters shielded by barbed… Continue reading Opinion column sample

FAQs What is editing? It includes proof-reading for errors but goes further. Each paragraph, phrase and word is weighed and assessed to bring out the best from your writing. Is the whole thing accurate, navigable and readable, plausible and authoritative? Will it, like a diamond, shine more brightly if cut (the answer is often yes)?… Continue reading Editing, FAQs