The Daily News (UK)

The Daily News
	Front cover of 1858 edition
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Founder(s)	Charles Dickens
Founded	1846
Language	English
Ceased publication	1930 (Merged with The Daily Chronicle, to become the News Chronicle)
City	London
Country	England
	Media of England; List of newspapers;

The Daily News was a national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom published from 1846 to 1930.

A Reader of The Daily News by Joseph Clayton Clark, c. 1900

The News was founded in 1846 by Charles Dickens, who also served as the newspaper's first editor. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing Morning Chronicle. The paper was not at first a commercial success. Dickens edited 17 issues before handing over the editorship to his friend John Forster, who had more experience in journalism than Dickens. Forster ran the paper until 1870.[1] Charles Mackay, Harriet Martineau, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton and Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina were among the leading reformist writers who wrote for the paper during its heyday. In 1870, the News absorbed the Morning Star.[2] In 1876, The Daily News and its correspondents Edwin Pears and (later) Januarius MacGahan sounded the first alarm respecting the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria.[3][4]

In 1901, Quaker chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury bought The Daily News and used the paper to campaign for old age pensions and against sweatshop labour.[2] As a pacifist, Cadbury opposed the Boer War, and the Daily News followed his line.[5]

In 1906, the News sponsored an exhibition on sweated labour at the Queen's Hall. This exhibition was credited with strengthening the women's suffrage movement. In 1909, H. N. Brailsford and H. W. Nevinson resigned from the paper when it refused to condemn the force feeding of suffragettes.[6]

In 1912, the News merged with the Morning Leader, and was for a time known as the Daily News and Leader.[1] In 1928, it merged with The Westminster Gazette, and in 1930, with the Daily Chronicle to form the centre-left News Chronicle.[6]

The chairman from 1911 to 1930 was Edward Cadbury, eldest son of George Cadbury.[7]

Editors

Source:[2]

1846: Charles Dickens

1846: John Forster

1847: Eyre Evans Crowe

1851: Frederick Knight Hunt

1854: William Weir

1858: Thomas Walker

1869: Edward Dicey

1869: Frank Harrison Hill

1886: John Robinson

1896: Edward Tyas Cook

1901: Rudolph Chambers Lehmann

1902: Alfred George Gardiner

1921: Stuart Hodgson[8]

1926: Tom Clarke[9]

References

London Daily News: General Description, Rossetti Archive.Undated.Accessed: 2007-09-14.
Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Newspapers" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 544–581, see page 559. "Daily News." & The history of the Daily News, founded in 1846, has been told....
Gladstone, William Ewart (1876). Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East (1 ed.). London: John Murray. p. 13. Retrieved 29 March 2016 – via Internet Archive.
Frederick Moy Thomas, ed. (1904). Fifty Years of Fleet Street being the Life and Letters of Sir John Richard Robinson (1 ed.). London: Macmillan. pp. 183–186. Retrieved 5 June 2016 – via Internet Archive.
Grant, Kevin (2005). A civilised savagery: Britain and the new slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926. Routledge. p. 110. ISBN 0-415-94901-7.
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement, p. 453.
"Mr Edward Cadbury". Glasgow Herald. 21 November 1948. p. 4.
"Hodgson, (John) Stuart". Who's Who & Who Was Who. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U226904. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
Hunter, Fred (2009). "Clarke, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32433. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

"London Daily News" at the British Newspaper Archive

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[rossetti-1] London Daily News: General Description, Rossetti Archive.Undated.Accessed: 2007-09-14.

[:0-2] Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Newspapers" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 544–581, see page 559. "Daily News." & The history of the Daily News, founded in 1846, has been told....

[3] Gladstone, William Ewart (1876). Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East (1 ed.). London: John Murray. p. 13. Retrieved 29 March 2016 – via Internet Archive.

[4] Frederick Moy Thomas, ed. (1904). Fifty Years of Fleet Street being the Life and Letters of Sir John Richard Robinson (1 ed.). London: Macmillan. pp. 183–186. Retrieved 5 June 2016 – via Internet Archive.

[5] Grant, Kevin (2005). A civilised savagery: Britain and the new slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926. Routledge. p. 110. ISBN 0-415-94901-7.

[crawford-6] Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement, p. 453.

[7] "Mr Edward Cadbury". Glasgow Herald. 21 November 1948. p. 4.

[8] "Hodgson, (John) Stuart". Who's Who & Who Was Who. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U226904. Retrieved 4 July 2021.

[9] Hunter, Fred (2009). "Clarke, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32433. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)