James Edward Davidson

", was an Australian journalist who rose through the ranks to become a newspaper owner, the founder of News Limited.

It was in Western Australia that Davidson, a skilled shorthand writer,[3] commenced his journalistic career, as a reporter on The West Australian.

In 1897 he joined the literary staff of the Argus in Melbourne,[4] and after nine years as a reporter he became editor of the Weekly Times.

After seven years in that post he turned his attention to South Australia, acquiring The Barrier Miner at Broken Hill and the Recorder at Port Pirie, and established an Adelaide afternoon newspaper, in preparation for which, the Mail was purchased.

[6] Davidson left Adelaide in March 1930 on the Naldera to attend the Empire Press Conference in London, where he died suddenly of pneumonia.