{{Short description|English engraver and newspaper proprietor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''George Stiff''' (1807–1873) was an English engraver and newspaper proprietor.
Stiff worked as a foreman of the engravers in the ''Illustrated London News'' before becoming a newspaper proprietor himself in the 1840s. A paper called ''The Illustrated Weekly Times'' failed after a few weeks, but ''The London Journal'' (started in 1845) was a huge success as a penny fiction weekly. By 1847 Stiff was able to begin the ''Weekly Times'': this "would eventually become one of the four high-circulation threepenny Sunday papers which dominated the mid-century middle-market for news, with ''[[Reynold's Weekly Newspaper|Reynolds's [Weekly] Newspaper]]'' (1850-1923), ''Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper'' (1842-1918), and the ''News of the World'' (1843-1910)."<ref>Andrew King, ''The London Journal'', Ashgate, 2004, pp. 67-8</ref>
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