^#smrgSAHAF The News Of The World Story: 150 Years 1843 to 1993 -

Under the legendary Ieadership of Lord Riddell and Sir Emsley Carr (editor for fifty years) the paper prospered and reached a record-breaking circulation of four and a half million in 1941, setting the targets for mass circulatlon and distribution. By the 1950s sales had reached eight and a half million, and the News of the World was the envy of Fleet Street, acquiring a reputation as 'an uncommoniy good newspaper'. in 1969 it became the foundation on whlch Austrailan entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch built his British media empire and in the last twenty-five years has continued to flouriah, often earning praise, sometimes earning censure, but always appealing to the heart of the nation.

From the Crimean War to the Swinging Sixties, from the First World War to the Profumo affalr, from a quaint Victorian broadsheet to the thrusting tabloid newspaper of today, the News of the World story is a fascinating chronicle of the life and times of our country.