# George Stiff

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{{Short description|English engraver and newspaper proprietor}}
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'''George Stiff''' (1807–1873) was an English engraver and newspaper proprietor.

Stiff worked as a foreman of the engravers in the ''[Illustrated London News](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Lloyd's_Weekly_Newspaper)'' (1842-1918), and the ''[News of the World](/source/News_of_the_World)'' (1843-1910)."<ref>Andrew King, ''The London Journal'', Ashgate, 2004, pp. 67-8</ref>

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Category:1807 births
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Category:19th-century British newspaper founders

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