"Cubitt, who brought in George Armstrong as editor. It was controlled shortly before World War I by Max Aitken. Staff of the newspaper included Arthur Morrison, William Le Queux, and P. G. Wodehouse, who took over from William Beach Thomas as assistant to Harold Begbie on the ""By the Way"" column, which he would eventually take over in 1904, when Begbie left. Wodehouse's career at the newspaper coincided with those of Charles H. Bovill and Herbert Westbrook. Under Aitken (Beaverbrook) the ""By the Way"" column was moved to the Daily Express, where it was signed 'Beachcomber'. The Globe (London newspaper)"
"correspondent. This move infuriated the prime minister. Lloyd George was now determined to buy the paper and set about raising the finance from friends of the party and by selling peerages. Beaverbrook was excluded, as were the Berry brothers of Allied Newspapers. The prime mover was Sir Henry Dalziel who already owned the ""Daily News"". He was rewarded by a knighthood in 1918 and a peerage in 1921. Wartime inflation had lifted Frank Lloyd's price from £900,000 to £1.1m. In the end, Lloyd George paid £1.6m – probably for a quick sale. He was already planning the early general election"
"Alastair Machray, who has previously edited the Welsh edition of the ""Daily Post"". In 1879 the ""Liverpool Echo"" was published as a cheaper sister paper to the ""Liverpool Daily Post"". From its inception until 1917 the newspaper cost a halfpenny. It is now 80p Monday to Friday, £1.20 on Saturday and 70p on Sunday. The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restructured as Trinity Holdings Plc. The two original newspapers had just previously been re-launched in tabloid format. A special Sunday edition of the ""Echo"" was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's Hillsborough"
"Daily News"" prices are: $1.25 Monday-Friday, $2.00 Saturday. Bangor Daily News The Bangor Daily News is an American newspaper covering a large portion of rural Maine, published six days per week in Bangor, Maine. The ""Bangor Daily News"" was founded on June 18, 1889; it merged with the ""Bangor Whig and Courier"" in 1900. Also known as ""the News"" or ""the BDN"", the paper is published by Bangor Publishing Company, a local family-owned company. It is the only independently owned daily newspaper in the state. The BDN is notable in the newspaper business for having an extremely large coverage area."
"individual copies of newspapers were each taxed, the economics of newspaper production favoured large weekly publications. Untaxed, it became possible to sell a newspaper for a penny, and the advantage lay with smaller, more frequent publications that could keep their readers more up to date. Feeney and Jaffray initially contemplated a second weekly edition of the ""Journal"", but the launch of Birmingham's first daily newspaper by prominent radical George Dawson—the short-lived ""Birmingham Daily Press""—provoked them into launching their own daily title—the ""Birmingham Daily Post"", later simply the ""Birmingham Post"" in 1857. The ""Journal"" was initially maintained as a weekly publication"
"in 1919. The Daily News was a morning paper founded in 1909, an outgrowth of the recently defunct Daily Industrial News. The ""Daily News"" and the associated company, the Greensboro News Company, grew quickly, acquiring the other morning paper, the ""Greensboro Telegram"" in 1911 and in 1930 acquired the ""Daily Record"". The Greensboro News Company and its two papers were run by Edwin Bedford Jeffress who owned half interest in the company after 1914. He remained president until 1961, when his son, Charles, took over the reins of the company. In 1965 the company was purchased by Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers, based"
"we are going to press the state of the flood and events just reported completely upset our anticipation of comparative safety."" Circulation growth brought the price down to twopence in 1901 and a penny in 1903. From 25 April 1947, the title was simplified to ""Maryborough Chronicle"". After several shifts, Bazaar Street became the ""Chronicle""'s new home in 1957. A satellite office operated in Hervey Bay. In 1966 the paper's format changed from broadsheet to tabloid and in 1977 it moved to offset printing. In 2005, the ""Chronicle"" shifted its headquarters to a new Hervey Bay office, although it continues"
"interspersed with publicity for the newspaper and its insurance fund. The ""Mail"" was also a frequent sponsor on continental commercial radio stations targeted towards Britain throughout the 1920s and 1930s and periodically voiced support for the legalisation of private radio, something that would not happen until 1973. From 1923 Lord Rothermere and the ""Daily Mail"" formed an alliance with the other great press baron, Lord Beaverbrook. Their opponent was the Conservative Party politician and leader Stanley Baldwin. By 1929 George Ward Price was writing in the ""Mail"" that Baldwin should be deposed and Beaverbrook elected as leader. In early 1930"
"the 1830s, it was sold to John Frederick Feeney in 1844 and was a direct ancestor of today's ""Birmingham Post"". The 1855 Stamp Act removed the tax on newspapers and transformed the news trade. The price of the ""Journal"" was reduced from seven pence to four pence and circulation boomed. Untaxed, it became possible to sell a newspaper for a penny, and the advantage lay with smaller, more frequent publications that could keep their readers more up to date. Feeney and ""Journal"" editor, John Jaffray initially contemplated a second mid-week edition of the ""Journal"", but the launch of Birmingham's first"
"and was a four-page broadsheet which cost a halfpenny. Historical copies of the ""Derby Daily Telegraph"", dating back to 1879, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive. The first editor was W.J. Piper who stayed in the post until he died in 1918. He was succeeded by William Gilman who in 1927, saw the paper sold three times in a series of months, eventually ending up in the hands of Northcliffe Newspaper Group, which was part of Daily Mail and General Trust plc. The same company also publishes the ""Telegraph Lite"" - a"
"still reeling from the horrors of the First World War, Beaverbrook was the first proprietor on Fleet Street to understand how eager his readers were to be entertained by glittering gossip. However he saw the Londoner’s Diary as more than just a means of profitably popularising the paper. Beaverbrook ""regarded the nightly diary page in the Evening Standard as his own personal fiefdom… an armoury from which he could seize a weapon at will; bludgeon, cudgel and rapier lay at his disposal as he sought to fight his way to ever greater heights of power and influence in between-the-wars Britain."""
"It was alleged that he played favourites, giving publicity to politicians he supported, and largely ignoring his enemies. Beaverbrook vehemently denied the allegations. Beaverbrook in 1929 launched a new political party to promote free trade within the British Empire. His Empire Free Trade Crusade had little success; Beaverbrook quickly lost interest, and the new party soon vanished. By the 1930s, over two-thirds of the population read a newspaper every day, with ""almost everyone"" taking one on Sundays. The ""Morning Star"" was founded in 1930 as the ""Daily Worker"", organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). is a left-wing"
"Morning Herald The Morning Herald was an early daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. The newspaper was founded in 1780 by the Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley, former editor of ""The Morning Post"". It was initially a liberal paper aligned with the Prince of Wales, but later became aligned with the Tories. In 1843, it was bought by Edward Baldwin, then after his death in 1848 was acquired by James Johnstone, who also owned the ""Evening Standard"". He differentiated the two newspapers by charging 4d a copy for the ""Herald"" and only 2d for the ""Standard"". This was initially successful,"
"Daily Express The Daily Express is a daily national middle-market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (which is owned by publisher Trinity Mirror). It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the Sunday Express, was launched in 1918. In December 2016, it had an average daily circulation of 391,626. The paper was acquired by Richard Desmond in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. Gary Jones took over as editor-in-chief in"
"became one of the leading papers in England under the control of Northcliffe. In 1900 evening newspapers were not considered to be good investments and most of the London newspapers were losing money. At the same time the ""Evening News"" was making profit of £50,000 a year. The circulation numbers of English newspapers between 1850 and 1930s can only be guessed at. (The newspapers would not publish exact figures except in their advertising, which cannot be trusted.) Some authors have carefully estimated that in 1910 the circulation of the ""Evening News"" was 300,000. Among the halfpenny evening papers this would"
"be viewed for free and without registration although the e-edition of the newspaper is behind a paywall. Cambridge News The Cambridge News (formerly the Cambridge Evening News) is a British daily newspaper published each weekday and on Saturdays. It is distributed from its Milton base. In the period December 2010-June 2011 it had an average daily circulation of 20,987, but by December 2016 this had fallen to around 13,000. This has fallen, still, to just 8,005. The paper was founded by William Farrow Taylor as the ""Cambridge Daily News"" in 1888, and after a slow start saw sales rise as"
"The large papers were all mildly conservative but none were organs of the Conservative Party. The Liberals lost nearly all their media and Labour had one small captive outlet, The ""Daily Herald"". The largely lower-middle-class readership wanted entertainment not political guidance. In 1931 Conservative former prime minister Stanley Baldwin denounced the media barons who had become his enemies by repeated Kipling's words: ""What proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages."" Lord Beaverbrook owned the best-selling ""Daily Express"" as well as London's ""Evening Standard"" and the ""Sunday Express""."
"copies across the Tamworth Herald, Atherstone Herald and Coleshill Herald titles. Tamworth Herald The Tamworth Herald is a weekly tabloid newspaper published every Thursday in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, with a cover price of £1. Its offices are based in Ventura Park Road, Bitterscote, and its current editor is Gary Phelps. The newspaper covers events across Tamworth and south Staffordshire, as well as North Warwickshire. The Herald was named ‘Newspaper of the Year’ at the Midland Media Awards in 2015 and 2016. The newspaper was founded as a broadsheet in 1868 by businessman Daniel Addison, and the original offices were based"
"St Bede's Commercial College from 1878-85. Hulton's father had founded the ""Sporting Chronicle"" in 1871, the ""Athletic News"" in 1875 and the ""Sunday Chronicle"" in 1885. Hulton subsequently founded the ""Manchester Evening Chronicle"" in 1897 (renamed ""Evening Chronicle"" in 1914), the ""Daily Dispatch"" in 1900 and the ""Daily Sketch"" tabloid in 1909. Edward Hulton and Co., of London and Manchester, a private company of proprietors, printers and publishers which owned a large group of newspapers was sold for £6 million when Hulton retired due to illness in 1923. The newspapers sold, which were subsequently controlled by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord"
"when commercial and 10 cent per line when noncommercial. In 1870, publication became a daily. At the start of the 20th century, the editorial office moved to Oude Singel 54. In 1909, a subscription was 9 Guilder cent per week, 1.30 Guilder per 3 months, and one paid 20 to have the newspaper sent by mail. Single copies were 2.5 cent. Starting 1910 an illustrated Sunday paper appeared for 5 cent. On 1 October 1914, the newspaper moved to Steenschuur 15, and the subscription cost was raised to 10 cents per week. The newspaper remained in this building during the"
"four million in 1967, below three million in 1975, and below two million in 1984. The ""Daily Express"" switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 (the ""Mail"" having done so six years earlier), and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers. In 1982, Trafalgar House spun off its publishing interests to a new company, Fleet Holdings, under Lord Matthews, but this succumbed to a hostile takeover by United Newspapers in 1985. Under United, the ""Express"" titles moved from Fleet Street to Blackfriars Road in 1989. Express"
"of “three columns written daily by gentlemen for gentlemen” with a distinctive slant on politics, personalities and London based stories. The section was the first of its kind; as early as 1917 it was noted that “the best tribute to ‘A Londoner's Diary’ is the fact that it now has its counterpart in the other penny evening papers in London.” In 1923 The Evening Standard was acquired by Lord Beaverbrook, the wildly influential Canadian press baron who was gleefully parodied as the ruthless Lord Monomark in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies and Stephen Fry’s film adaptation Bright Young Things. With London"
"an independent illustrated weekly, edited from the same office by J. Penderel-Brodhurst (later editor of ""The Guardian"" from 1905), who had been on the editorial staff since 1888; and it continued to be published till 1899 or until 1911. C. Arthur Pearson (later described by Winston Churchill as ""the champion hustler of the Tariff Reform League"") had had a financial interest in the ""St. James's Gazette"" for several years. When the Tariff Reform battle started Pearson was the head of a syndicate which bought the morning ""Standard"" newspaper in 1904 for £300,000. With the acquisition went the ""London Evening Standard"","
"by Lord Beaverbrook and then sold to Lord Rothermere, becoming part of Allied Northern Newspapers and later Kemsley Newspapers. The paper was renamed the ""Sunday Empire News"" in 1944, but in 1950 became the ""Empire News and the Umpire"" and in 1953 was back to being the ""Empire News"". In 1955, the ""Sunday Chronicle"" was merged with the ""Empire News"", and the paper's title became the ""Empire News and the Sunday Chronicle"". Roy Thomson bought the paper in 1959, but he merged it into the ""News of the World"" in 1960. Empire News The Empire News was a Sunday newspaper"
"July 26, 1881. It was the first popular evening paper in London. It was priced at one halfpenny, distinguishing itself from the more serious penny papers such as ""The Times"". The first issues were printed on light blue paper and later editions on yellow and green paper. The rivalry between halfpenny papers in the late 19th century was fierce and almost ended the ""Evening News"". According to some sources the paper was losing £40,000 a year. In 1894 the brothers Alfred and Harold Harmsworth bought the paper for £25,000. In 1888 Alfred had founded a paper called ""Answers"" that was"
"He testified before a House of Lords select committee that ""we need to allow editors the freedom to edit"", and therefore the newspaper's editor was free to decide editorial policy, including its political allegiance. The ""Mail"" has been edited by Geordie Greig since September 2018, following the retirement of Paul Dacre who edited the paper since 1992. The ""Daily Mail"", devised by Alfred Harmsworth (later Viscount Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later Viscount Rothermere), was first published on 4 May 1896. It was an immediate success. It cost a halfpenny at a time when other London dailies cost one penny,"
"largest possible audience working class had proven a success. P.P. Catterall and Colin Seymour-Ure conclude that: Socialist and labour newspapers also proliferated and in 1912 the ""Daily Herald"" was launched as the first daily newspaper of the trade union and labour movement. Newspapers reached their peak of importance during the First World War, in part because wartime issues were so urgent and newsworthy, while members of Parliament were constrained by the all-party coalition government from attacking the government. By 1914 Northcliffe controlled 40 per cent of the morning newspaper circulation in Britain, 45 per cent of the evening and 15"
"its predecessor ""The Penny Post"" first appeared in Portsmouth. ""The Penny Post"" (named for its newsstand price) within two years was claiming to have the largest circulation base in New England. The ""Post"" adopted the name ""Portsmouth Herald"" in mid-1897, and cost 2 cents per issue. Traced back through the history of its sister papers, however, the ""Herald"" has an even longer pedigree. In 1891, F.W. Hartford took over ""The Penny Post"" and initiated a newspaper war with two of the city's longest established papers, the ""Morning Chronicle"" (daily since 1852) and the weekly ""New Hampshire Gazette"" (the state's oldest"
"to ""The Leader"". Two months later on 2 September 1901 ""The Leader"" became a daily. When Carr was elected to Federal Parliament in 1906 he sold the business to Thomas Crouch from the ""Wellington Gazette"" to conduct it as a newspaper with a labor leaning. Shortly afterwards Crouch formed a partnership with Jack Porter, also of Wellington, and they traded as Porter and Crouch. The left-leaning paper was boycotted, especially by auctioneers who would not advertise in it and eventually the business was taken over by Crouch’s mortgagor Mark Bembrick, also of Wellington. Bembrick disposed of the business to Percival"
"establishment of more specialised periodicals and the first cheap newspaper in the ""Daily Telegraph and Courier"" (1855), later to be known simply as the ""Daily Telegraph"". ""The Daily Telegraph"" was first published on 29 June 1855 and was owned by Arthur Sleigh, who transferred it to Joseph Levy the following year. Levy produced it as the first penny newspaper in London. His son, Edward Lawson soon became editor, a post he held until 1885. ""The Daily Telegraph"" became the organ of the middle class and could claim the largest circulation in the world in 1890. It held a consistent Liberal"
"now marked with an English Heritage blue plaque. Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922) was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the ""Daily Mail"" and the ""Daily Mirror"", he was an early developer of popular journalism, and he exercised vast influence over British popular opinion during the Edwardian era. Lord Beaverbrook said he was ""the greatest figure who ever strode down Fleet Street."" About the beginning of the 20th century there were increasing attempts to develop popular journalism intended for the working class and"
"name that is published daily in Britain - that publication was founded in 1930 as ""The Daily Worker"", and only changed its name to ""Morning Star"" in 1966. The Morning Star (New Hampshire newspaper) The Morning Star was a weekly newspaper owned and published by Freewill Baptists in 19th-century New England, which campaigned vigorously for the abolition of slavery long before such a political stance was widely considered to be respectable in America. The first issue was published in Limerick, Maine on 11 May 1826. Seven years later the newspaper relocated to Dover, New Hampshire, and it continued to be"
"publications and pamphlets had been introduced by an Act of 1712, at the level of a halfpenny (½""d"".). The duty had risen over time to 4""d"". The Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act of 1819 was not very effective in controlling the circulation of news, but cramped the development of newspapers. It was aimed at the journalism of William Cobbett, the Hunt brothers (""The Examiner""), and Thomas Jonathan Wooler (""The Black Dwarf""). From 1819, ""newspaper"" was defined carefully, and the fiscal burden fell on all periodicals that were more frequently published than monthly, and priced below 6""d"". It had a negative"