Which newspaper was launched in 1986 as “Britain’s first full-colour low cost tabloid”?
"Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain"". Today (UK newspaper) Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. ""Today"", with the American newspaper ""USA Today"" as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, ""Second Spy Inside GCHQ"". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established ""Daily Mail"" and ""Daily Express"". It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce"
"on equipment which had no facility for colour proofing, so the first view of the colour was on the finished product. However, it forced the conversion of all UK national newspapers to electronic production and colour printing. The newspaper's motto, hung in the newsroom, was ""propa truth, not propaganda"". Launched by regional newspaper entrepreneur Eddy Shah, it was bought by Tiny Rowland's Lonrho within four months. (Shah would launch the short-lived, unsuccessful national tabloid ""The Post"" in 1988.) Alastair Campbell was political editor and his long-term partner, Fiona Millar was news editor. Alongside the daily newspaper, a Sunday edition was"
"and about 4,500 in 1989. Anois Anois (Irish: ""Now"") was an Irish-language weekly newspaper, published in Dublin, Ireland, by Gael Linn from September 1984 until June 1996. It was the first newspaper in the Irish language to appear in full-colour tabloid format. It focused primarily on Irish language issues, and included regular columns on sport and entertainment, as well as sections for children and learners. ""Anois"" replaced two other Irish-language newspapers, ""Inniú"" and ""Amárach"", and was itself replaced by ""Foinse"" in October 1996. It was financed by Roinn na Gaeltachta, as well as by sales and advertising. In 1986 its"
"The London Paper The London Paper (stylised as thelondonpaper) was a free daily newspaper, published by NI Free Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International (who also own the companies that publish ""The Sun"" and ""The Times""). It was available from Monday to Friday each week in Central London from 4 September 2006 until 18 September 2009 (its final print-run before closure). The paper was the first London newspaper to be published in direct competition with the ""Evening Standard"" since 1987 and Robert Maxwell's short-lived ""London Daily News"". It was also the first newspaper to be launched by News International"
"publication, with technical advances in printing and communication combined with a professionalisation of journalism and the prominence of new owners. A pioneer of popular journalism for the masses had been the Chartist ""Northern Star"", first published on 26 May 1838. The same time saw the first cheap newspaper in the ""Daily Telegraph and Courier"" (1855), later to be known simply as the ""Daily Telegraph"". ""The Illustrated London News"", founded in 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. Reformers pressured the government and it repeatedly cut the high taxes on knowledge, including the excise duty on paper and the 5-penny"
"from pre-launch in 1986 to 1994. From September 2003, the paper was produced in both broadsheet and tabloid-sized versions, with the same content in each. The tabloid edition was termed ""compact"" to distance itself from the more sensationalist reporting style usually associated with ""tabloid"" newspapers in the UK. After launching in the London area and then in North West England, the smaller format appeared gradually throughout the UK. Soon afterwards, Rupert Murdoch's ""Times"" followed suit, introducing its own tabloid-sized version. Prior to these changes, ""The Independent"" had a daily circulation of around 217,500, the lowest of any major national British"
"This Week Newspaper This Week was the free national tourism newspaper for Wales published between 1988 and 2005, established by Steven Potter and Terry Jackson to provide ""Local Knowledge Nationwide"" to visitors. It laid claim to being the first colour tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom using new, digital pre-press technology on an Apple Macintosh 512K desktop computer, a claim that remains undisputed. It laid further claim in 1995 to being the first newspaper published online, to extend local knowledge ""Worldwide"" using the original Netscape Navigator v1.0 web browser within months of its 14 December 1994 launch. Despite these"
"colour. As a consequence of the launch of ""The London Paper"" as well as Associated Newspaper's own ""London Lite"", the ""Evening Standard"" attempted to go more upmarket, emphasising the difference between the free newspapers and itself by adding the tagline ""The Quality Newspaper"" across the top of the front page, this changed on 12 October 2009 when, after a long history of paid circulation, the ""Evening Standard"" became a free sheet, replacing the ""London Lite"". ""The London Paper"" was also the home of ""Em"", the popular cartoon strip later featured in ""The Sun"", and the City Girl column, written by"
"Newsquest's Editor of the Year for 2016. Greenock Telegraph The Greenock Telegraph is a local daily newspaper serving Inverclyde (the council area containing the towns of Gourock, Greenock and Port Glasgow), Scotland. Founded in 1857, it was the first halfpenny daily newspaper in Britain. It was for a time Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette, owing to the massive amount of maritime traffic moving in and out of Greenock's harbours. This information is still published, but only as a column entry. Originally based in Charles Street, Greenock, the printing works were bombed during the Greenock Blitz in May 1941. However"
"the newspaper's first anniversary as a tabloid. Topless Page 3 girls soon became a regular feature in ""The Sun"" and are credited with helping to boost the newspaper's circulation significantly in the 1970s and 1980s. Some Page 3 girls became household names. Samantha Fox, who appeared on Page 3 from 1983 to 1986, became one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s, and famously earned more than then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher while still in her teens. Britain's other ""red top"" tabloids introduced competing features under different names. ""The Daily Star"" called its topless models ""Starbirds."" ""The Daily Mirror"""
"for the new venture) and her husband Dominic Gill, then music critic for the ""Financial Times"", the trio raised the money to launch their first publication, the London edition of ""LOOT: London's Noticeboard"", in 1985. The paper was launched in March 1985 on paper the same colour as the ""Financial Times"" (i.e. pale pink or salmon), as a means ""to buy, sell or exchange absolutely anything"", and published every Thursday containing only 16 pages of ads in the first edition, but soon increasing the number of pages. Ads were limited to ""50 words"" (349 characters), but this was later cut"
"Marple, ceased to have their own editions of the ""North Cheshire Herald"". Droylsden and East Manchester were merged. Initially, the ""High Peak Reporter"" was absorbed by the ""Glossop Chronicle"", but a few months later was reinstated. The ""Reporter"" appeared in tabloid form for the first time on 7 March 1986. At first it had a red masthead but this was quickly changed to blue. The Co-operative Press of Manchester did the typesetting. Printing took place at Central Lancashire printers at Wigan. Circulation had begun to fall in the 1970s and by the early 1990s only the ""Glossop Chronicle"" retained any"
"Sunday Sport Sunday Sport is a British tabloid newspaper, published by Sport Newspapers, which was originally established in 1986. Defenders of the publication have said the ""Sport"" was never intended to be taken seriously: it has featured such stories as a London Bus being discovered at the Antarctic, a World War II Bomber on the Moon, or a statue of Elvis Presley on Mars. Its content also includes a high quotient of softcore female nudity and advertising for sexual services. The ""Sunday Sport"" was founded in 1986, the first issue for sale was dated 14 September 1986. Its original publisher"
"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"
"Vogue"" and similar British non-pornographic men's magazines like ""Town"" (formerly ""About Town"" and before that ""Man About Town"") which closed in 1968, and the British version of ""Esquire"" in the 1950s, has been blamed on the smaller size of the market in the United Kingdom compared to the United States and competition for advertising from commercial television and newspaper colour supplements. The first colour supplement in the United Kingdom was for ""The Sunday Times"", published in February 1962, and it was so successful that the paper gained a quarter of a million new readers. Soon, all the large Sunday newspapers"
"nineties recession. Production was reduced to weekly in June 1991 with the newspaper retitled Birmingham Metronews. This in turn was relaunched as a daily publication in 2000 as the Midland edition of the Metro group, distributed free of charge to commuters travelling by public transport. Notes Bibliography Birmingham Daily News The Birmingham Daily News, Europe's first free daily newspaper, was launched in Birmingham, England in October 1984. The paper was created by local entrepreneurs Chris Bullivant and his wife Pat, and was edited by David Scott. It was published from offices at Five Ways and delivered free to 276,000 houses"
"it into its sister publication and former rival. The ""London Daily News"" was the first home of the ""Alex"" cartoon, later published by ""The Independent"" and the ""Daily Telegraph"". Maxwell admitted defeat on 25 July 1987 an hour after paying undisclosed damages to Associated Newspapers for accusing it of lying about the ""Evening Standard""s circulation figures. Starting the ""London Daily News"", which published four editions a day, had cost him $40 million (then about £24.96 million), Reuters estimated. His paper was “selling less than 100,000 copies, when minimum sales targets were 200,000 by this time"", Reuters reported Maxwell as commenting."
"into ""The Guardian Journal"", which survived until 1973, when it was closed during a period of industrial turmoil in the company. During the protracted dispute, some ""Post"" journalists launched their own newspaper, receiving moral support from Brian Clough, then manager of Nottingham Forest. One of the ""Post""s stalwart journalists, Emrys Bryson, wrote a revue about Nottingham life called ""Owd Yer Tight"", which ran at Nottingham's Theatre Royal. The ""Post""s sister paper, the ""Nottinghamshire Weekly Guardian"", published D. H. Lawrence's first short story. In March 1996 the ""Post"" was relaunched as a full-colour tabloid, although the Saturday edition had switched to"
"others, all owned by Rupert Murdoch). He wanted to introduce technological innovations that would put 90% of the old-fashioned typesetters out of work. The company offered redundancy payments of £2,000 to £30,000 to each printer to quit their old jobs. The union rejected the offer and on 24 January 1986 its 6,000 members at Murdoch's papers went on strike. Meanwhile, News International had built and clandestinely equipped a new printing plant in the London district of Wapping. The principal print unions—the National Graphical Association (NGA), the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT 82) and the Amalgamated Union of Engineering"
"Morning Star (British newspaper) The Morning Star is a left-wing British daily tabloid newspaper with a focus on social, political and trade union issues. The paper was founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Since 1945, it has been owned by the People's Press Printing Society. It was renamed the ""Morning Star"" in 1966. The paper's editorial stance is in line with ""Britain's Road to Socialism"", the programme of the Communist Party of Britain. Articles and comment columns are now contributed by writers from socialist, communist, social democratic, Green and religious perspectives."
"UK. News UK's main competitor is DMG Media, which is in turn owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Between 1987 and 1995, News International owned, through its subsidiary News (UK) Ltd, ""Today"", the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour. All of News International's newspapers (with the exception of ""The London Paper"", launched in 2006) were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago. In October 2005 News International sold TSL Education, publishers of ""Times Higher Education"", ""Times Educational Supplement"", and other education titles, for £235m ($415m). ""The Times Literary Supplement"", previously part"
"by the ""NME"" in 1981 in conjunction with Rough Trade. ""C86"" was similarly designed to reflect the new music scene of the time. It was compiled by ""NME"" writers Roy Carr, Neil Taylor and Adrian Thrills, who licensed tracks from labels including Creation, Subway, Probe Plus, Dan Treacy's Dreamworld Records, Jeff Barrett's Head Records, Pink, and Ron Johnson. Readers had to pay for the tape via mail order, although an LP was subsequently released on Rough Trade on 24 November 1986. The UK music press was in this period highly competitive, with four weekly papers documenting new bands and trends."
"First News First News is a UK newspaper for young readers. It is published in a full colour tabloid format every Friday, and aims to present current events and politics in a child-friendly format, alongside news on entertainment, sport and computer games. The paper is aimed at seven to fourteen-year-olds, and regularly features written work from readers of that age. The paper's weekly circulation in 2017 was 79,362. ""First News"" was founded by Sarah and Steve Thomson and launched by Editor Nicky Cox MBE in May 2006 at 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the UK's Chancellor of the"
"a price of one penny. The price was set to undercut rivals such as the ""Manchester Guardian"" and did so for some time until the rivals responded. Despite this competitive advantage, and in common with many other local newspapers, its influence in London was low and it suffered from difficulties in distribution. In 1856, Richard Cobden was inspired to become involved in establishing the ""Morning Star"" in London as an imitator of the ""Manchester Examiner"" that would disseminate the school of Manchester radicalism more widely, but it was of an inferior journalistic standard and had little political impact. The newspaper"
"in the late 1980s. The ""Evening News"" reappeared for few months in 1987 when it was launched by the ""Evening Standard's"" owners ""Associated Newspapers"" in order to counter Robert Maxwell's ""London Daily News""; this sparked a price war, by the end of which the ""Evening News"" was being sold at 5p to the ""London Daily News""' 10p. The revived newspaper was edited by Lori Miles, one of the first female editors in Fleet Street. Following the collapse of the ""London Daily News"" in July the ""Evening News"" continued for a further three months as a separate brand from the ""Evening"
"The Post (British newspaper) The Post was a national tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, owned by Eddy Shah. It ran for only five weeks in November and December 1988. The first edition was issued on Thursday 10 November and cost 20p. Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves, then the hosts of an ITV football series called ""Saint and Greavsie"", had a column in the paper on Saturdays. ""The Post"" was produced at Messenger Newspapers, Warrington, UK. With Apple Macintosh IIfx computers and Aldus PageMaker software, later to become Adobe InDesign, giving it a ""what you see is what you"
"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"
"""Sun"" as one of the most popular newspapers in the United Kingdom by the mid-1970s. In an effort to compete with the ""Sun"", the ""Daily Mirror"" and ""Daily Star"" tabloids also began publishing images of topless women. The Mirror stopped featuring topless models in the 1980s, deeming the photographs demeaning to women. The ""Scottish Daily News"" was a left-of-centre daily newspaper published in Glasgow between 5 May and 8 November 1975. It was hailed as Britain's first worker-controlled, mass-circulation daily, formed as a workers' cooperative by 500 of the 1,846 journalists, photographers, engineers, and print workers who were made redundant"
"different tabloid newspapers as being between £1 million and £50 million, costs that would possibly have been unnecessary were it not for what former ""Daily Mirror"" editor Roy Greenslade described as tabloids ""whipping up the kind of public hysteria guaranteed to incite misguided people to take the law into their own hands"". Carr became one of four former prisoners to be given entirely new identities, along with double-child killer Mary Bell and the two child-murderers of James Bulger. At least a dozen women have been attacked and persecuted by those ""enraged by fake stories about Carr published by red-top papers"","
"London Daily News The London Daily News was a short-lived London newspaper owned by Robert Maxwell. It was published from 24 February to 23 July 1987. The London Daily News was intended to be a ""24-hour"" paper challenging the local dominance of the ""Evening Standard"". ""For the city that never sleeps, the paper that never stops"", ran the promotional slogan. The ""Standard""’s owners, Associated Newspapers, responded by reviving the ""Evening News"" at a lower price to squeeze the ""London Daily News"" out of the market. A price war ensued finishing with the ""London Daily News"" selling at 10p and the"
"Croydon Guardian The Croydon Guardian (with locally branded editions) is a weekly free local newspaper covering the London Borough of Croydon, South London, and surrounding areas. The newspaper is published every Wednesday and is distributed free of charge in the borough of Croydon. It is sold for 60 pence at newsagents and other shops in and around the borough. With an average distribution of 99,753 copies, it is one of Newsquest's most read newspapers in London. The newspaper was launched in 1986 by regional newspaper publisher Newsquest Media Group's South London arm. The newspaper, like many other local papers, has"
"rapidly promoted to editor and, to save money, wrote the entire magazine under various pseudonyms. It was there where he first demonstrated his flair for design when his insisted that his staff should all wear a different colour each day and sit next to each other so their clothes and the editorial floor were colour-coordinated. When the title went bankrupt he got a job as a reporter on ""Marketing Week"" where he remained for two years. His career took off when he was hired as a reporter on ""Londoner's Diary"" of the ""London Evening Standard"" in 1985. He went on"
"Sun"". He told a press conference he was watching the free newspaper market ""keenly and apprehensively"". Murdoch's News International subsequently launched a London-based evening freesheet in 2006 called ""The London Paper"". This was closed on 18 September 2009. ""London Lite"" was another free, evening newspaper published in central London only from 2006 to 2009, at the time owned by the same parent company as ""Metro"", and was seen as a 'spoiler' to protect against the commercial threat from ""The London Paper"". Another rival is the ""London Evening Standard"", which became a freesheet in 2009, although unlike ""Metro"" it is only"