Alternate Subtitle(s)

• “A Weekly Newspaper for the Journalistic Profession” (COPAC)
• “A Monthly Newspaper for the Journalistic Profession” (COPAC)

Start Date(s)

• 1886 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1909 (COPAC)
• 1902 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Atkinson, John Bernard

City

• London, England (Journal Itself)

Type of Content

• Contains advertisements, our note book, twixt the turns, the Institute and its critics, our portrait gallery, gossip from the counting house, personal jottings, the institute of journalists, correspondence, obituary (1895--Waterloo)
• "Praises the achievements of journalists as well as ruthlessly exposing their shortcomings” (Jones 127)
• "Reports on key libel hearings, letters to the editor, accounts of the successes and failures of given newspapers and periodicals and more discursive articles covering various aspects of the profession; advertisements for situations vacant, typewriters, machinery related to the printing trade, and other publications including its competition (The Reporters' Magazine)”; content suffered at the end of its run (in 1909), when it had shrunk to 8 pages and mainly contained advertisements, gossip, and tittle-tattle (Taunton 327)
• "Makes a special feature of the changes occurring in the journalistic world, and is the semi-official organ of the Chartered Institute of Journalists” (Mitchell's 1895, 70)
• “Each number will contain articles . . . dealing with such questions as the ethics of journalism, the supply of news, the relations of journalists with the various public bodies, the law of libel as affected by the latest decisions” as well as being “a chronicle of all importance changes in the personnel of newspaper staffs” (“Introductory Note,” vol. 1, no. 1, 15 Oct. 1886, p. 1)

Notes

• "To keep readers abreast of the latest developments in the trade, reporting on significant appointments, providing biographies--often accompanied by illustrations--of prominent or otherwise noteworthy journalists, and printing the proceedings of the National Association of Journalists" (Taunton 327)
• Became The Journalist and Newspaper Proprietor in May 1890 (Taunton 327) or in Feb. 1902 (Shattock 2855)
• Publisher's address: 100 Fleet St., London (Willing's 1895, 63); or 68 Finsbury Pavement, London (Willing's 1896, 63)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Journalism
• Printing Trade
• Publishing

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• Jones 127
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 70
• Shattock p. 2855
• Stewart vol. 2, p. 627
• Taunton p. 327
• Willing’s 1895, p. 63; 1896, p. 63
• World's 1893, p. 28

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Jones, Aled. Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England. Ashgate, 1996.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• Taunton, Matthew. “Journalist.” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Marysa Demoor and Laurel Brake, Academia P, 2009, p. 327. Google Books.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.
• The World's Paper Trade Review, vol. 20, no. 5, 1893, p. 9. Google Books.