The Daily News (UK)

This article is about the former British newspaper. For other uses, see Daily News (disambiguation). For the London newspaper published in 1987, see London Daily News.

The Daily News
Front cover of 1858 edition
Author(s)	Editor: Charles Dickens Editor: John Foster
Country	England
Language	English
Series	Monthly: 21 January 1846 - 1870
Genre(s)	Magazine
Media type	Print
Followed by	Morning Leader

The Daily News was a national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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 over to his friend John Foster, who had more experience in journalism than Dickens. Foster ran the paper until 1870.^[1] Charles Mackay, Harriet Martineau, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and G.K. Chesterton were among the leading reformist writers who wrote for the paper during its heyday. In 1870, the News absorbed the Morning Star.^[2]

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. As a pacifist, Cadbury opposed the Boer War – and the Daily News followed his line.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[4]

The chairman from 1911 to 1930 was Edward Cadbury, eldest son of George Cadbury.^[5]

Editors

1846: Charles Dickens

1846: John Foster

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

1920: Stuart Hodgson

Source: 1911 Britannica

References

1. ^ ^{a b} London Daily News: General Description, Rossetti Archive.Undated.Accessed: 2007-09-14.
2. ^ "Newspapers", 1911 Britannica, vol 19 p 559
3. ^ Kevin Grant (2005). A civilised savagery: Britain and the new slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926. Routledge. p. 110. ISBN 0415949017. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement, p.453.
5. ^ "Mr Edward Cadbury". Glasgow Herald: p. 4. 21 November 1948. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hGlAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gpgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1579,4864470&dq=edward-cadbury&hl=en.