Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial of about 56 cameramen, and produced a number of scoops, including images of the sinking of the British ship HMS Audacious in 1914, and the sinking of the German ship SMS Blücher in 1915. Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial The Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial or Hearst-Vitagraph (also known as the Hearst-Vitagraph News Reel) was a short-lived company producing newsreels which were coupled with animated cartoons. It was established on 29 October 1915 by the Brooklyn-based Vitagraph Studios and the Hearst Corporation, and produced its first reel in February 1916, but folded in 1916. Previously, Hearst had produced newsreels together with the Selig Polyscope