Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic Magazine
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Gilbert H Grosvenor is famous as the editor who changed the National Geographic magazine into the dynamic publication that it is today. Born in Turkey, he later moved to the USA and attended Amherst College. He became the first full-time editor of the magazine in 1899, with the support of his future father-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell, who was president of the National Geographic Society. In its early years, National Geographic had a very low circulation. Grosvenor, who became editor-in-chief in 1903, added beautiful photographs and detailed maps to the magazine, and raised the circulation to over 2 million. Using money made from the magazine, the National Geographic Society has sponsored hundreds of scientific expeditions and projects.
C) John Walter (1739-1812)
Founder/Owner, The Times
John Walter was a London coal merchant, then an insurance underwriter, before starting his own printing company in 1783. Simply in order to promote this new business, he began to publish a daily paper, the Daily Universal Register, which mainly contained paid advertisements. His printing business was a disappointing failure, so Walter decided to make the paper more profitable by making it more popular. Renamed The Times on 1st January 1788, it reported scandals involving famous London people, and for years most of its profits came from people who paid Walter not to print embarrassing stories about them! As years went by, Walter began to report more serious news, and started a foreign news service which later helped The Times become one of the world's most respected papers.
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