| The Daily Mirror | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Trinity Mirror |
| Editor | Richard Wallace |
| Founded | November 2, 1903 |
| Political allegiance | Labour |
| Headquarters | One Canada Square, London |
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| Website: www.mirror.co.uk | |
The Daily Mirror, often referred to simply as The Mirror, is a British tabloid daily newspaper founded in 1903. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting It is the only British national paper to have consistently supported the Labour Party since 1945. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar
During a couple of periods in its history — 1985 to 1987 and 1997 to 2002 — the front-page masthead was changed to The Mirror. A masthead is a list usually found on the editorial page of a Newspaper or Magazine, of the members of the newspaper's Editorial board.
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The Daily Mirror was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Alfred Charles William Harmsworth 1st Viscount Northcliffe ( 15 July[[ 865]] - 14 August[[ 922]] rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper Hence the name: he said "I intend it to be really a mirror of feminine life as well on its grave as on its lighter sides. . . . to be entertaining without being frivolous, and serious without being dull". [1] (He also invited men to read it. ) It cost one penny. A penny (pl pence or pennies) is a Coin or a unit of Currency used in several English -speaking countries
It was not a success, and in 1904 he decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper, changing the masthead to The Daily Illustrated Mirror and appointing Hamilton Fyfe as editor who then fired all the women journalists. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on This name ran from 26 January to 27 April 1904 (issues 72 to 150) then reverted to The Daily Mirror. Events 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on The first issue did not have advertisements on the front page as previously, but news text and engraved pictures (of a traitor and an actress) with the promise of photographs inside. [2] Two days later the price was dropped to one halfpenny and to the masthead was added "A paper for men and women". [3] This combination was successful: by issue 92 the guaranteed circulation was 120,000 copies[4] and by issue 269 it had grown to 200,000:[5] by then the name had reverted and the front page was mainly photographs. Circulation grew to 466,000 making it the second largest morning newspaper. [6]
Harold Harmsworth (Lord Rothermere) bought the newspaper from his brother Lord Northcliffe in 1913. Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In 1917 the price was increased to one penny. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year [7] Circulation continued to grow: by 1930 the Mirror was selling more than 1 million copies a day and had the third-largest sale among British national newspapers, behind only the Daily Express (owned by Lord Beaverbrook) and the Daily Mail (also owned by Rothermere). Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Daily Express is a conservative Middle-market British Tabloid Newspaper. William Maxwell "Max" Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook Bt The Daily Mail is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format
Rothermere used the Mirror for his own political purposes just as he used the Mail. Both papers were an integral part of his joint campaign with Beaverbrook for "Empire Free Trade" in 1929 – 32, and the Mirror, like the Mail, gave enthusiastic support to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists in 1933 – 34 — support that Rothermere hastily withdrew after middle-class readers recoiled at the BUF's violence at a rally at Olympia. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 &ndash 3 December 1980 was a British Politician, known principally as the founder of the British The British Union of Fascists (BUF was a Political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1932 by a Labour government minister and former MP Olympia is an exhibition centre in West Kensington, London, W14, England.
By the mid-1930s, however, the Mirror was struggling — it and the Mail were the main casualties of the early-1930s circulation war that saw the Daily Herald and the Daily Express establish circulations of more than 2 million — and Rothermere decided to sell his shares in it. The Daily Herald was a British Newspaper, published in London from 1912 to 1964 (although it was weekly during the First World War The Daily Express is a conservative Middle-market British Tabloid Newspaper. His withdrawal paved the way for one of the most remarkable reworkings of a newspaper's identity ever seen.
With Cecil King (Rothermere's nephew) in charge of the paper's finances and Guy Bartholomew as editor, the Mirror in the late 1930s transformed itself from a gently declining, respectable, conservative, middle-class newspaper into a sensationalist left-wing paper for the working class that soon proved a runaway business success. The Mirror was the first UK paper to adopt the appearance of the New York tabloids and was noted for its consistent campaign in opposing the appeasement of Adolf Hitler. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately By 1939, it was selling 1. 4 million copies a day.
During World War II, the Mirror positioned itself as the paper of the "ordinary" soldier and civilian, critical of the incompetence of the political leadership and the established parties. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In the 1945 general election it strongly supported Labour in its eventual landslide victory. Results |} Total votes cast 24073025 All parties shown Conservative total includes Ulster Unionists Reason for Labour victory The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the By the late 1940s, it was selling 4. 5 million copies a day, outstripping the Express; for some 30 years afterwards it dominated the British daily newspaper market, selling at its peak in the mid-1960s more than 5 million copies each day.
One of the most 'open' publishers of tabloid newspapers, the Daily Mirror arranged regular tours of its printing presses at the Holborn Circus site in London, built on the site of the former Gamages department store. Gamages was a Department store at 116-128 Holborn in Central London founded by Mr At the time it was one of the most technically advanced printing works in the world. Visitors were taken on tours of the entire production process and shown everything involved in producing a newspaper: the linotype machines where text was entered, the lead-melting plant where the curved leaden printing plates were cast before being attached to the cylindrical printing-press rollers, the huge reels of newsprint (paper), and the presses themselves. Shortly after the day's edition was complete the visitors could get a fresh copy of the paper literally 'hot off the press'.
The Mirror's mass working-class readership had made it the United Kingdom's best-selling daily tabloid newspaper. But it became complacent about its success. In 1960, it acquired the Daily Herald (the popular daily of the labour movement), when it bought Odhams, in one of a series of takeovers that created the International Publishing Corporation (IPC). The Daily Herald was a British Newspaper, published in London from 1912 to 1964 (although it was weekly during the First World War The Mirror management did not want the Herald competing with the Mirror for readers and in 1964 relaunched it as a mid-market paper, the Sun. The Sun is a Tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language When it failed to win readers, the Sun was sold to Rupert Murdoch — who immediately relaunched it as a more populist and more sensationalist tabloid competitor to the Mirror. is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American
In an attempt to cater for a different kind of reader, the Mirror launched the Mirrorscope pull-out section on 30 January 1968. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Press Gazette printed "The Daily Mirror launched its revolutionary four-page supplement Mirrorscope. The ambitious brief for the supplement, which ran on Wednesdays and Thursdays, was to deal with international affairs, politics, industry, science, the arts and business. " (see Press Gazette Back Issues 23.01.03) The British Journalism Review said in 2002 that Mirrorscope was "a game attempt to provide serious analysis in the rough and tumble of the tabloids" (see British Journalism Review Vol. 13, No. 4, 2002, pages 6-14). (For scans of the 10 June 1968 edition entitled Born Today: Tomorrow's Man see Page 13, Page 14, Page 15, and Page 16). Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It failed to attract any significant numbers of new readers, and the pull-out section was abandoned after its final issue on 27 August 1974. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar.
Since then, the story of the Mirror has been one of continuous decline. By the mid-1970s, the Sun had overtaken the Mirror in circulation, and in 1984 the Mirror was sold to Robert Maxwell. Ian Robert Maxwell MC ( June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian born British Media proprietor The import of heavyweight columnists and writers with a following, like Paul Callan from the Daily Mail sat uneasily with the perceived need to compete with The Sun. Paul Callan may refer to Paul Callan (journalist, British journalist Paul Callan (attorney, American attorney and television legal commentator The Daily Mail is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format After Maxwell's death in 1991, the Mirror went through a protracted crisis before ending up in the hands of Trinity Mirror, its current owner. Trinity Mirror plc is a large United Kingdom Newspaper and Magazine publisher In recent years the paper's circulation has also been overtaken by that of the Daily Mail.
Trinity Mirror is based at One Canada Square — the focal building in London's Canary Wharf development. One Canada Square (also known as the Canary Wharf Tower) is a Skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. Canary Wharf is a large business and shopping development in London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks The Holborn Circus site is now occupied by J Sainsbury plc. J Sainsbury plc ( is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd commonly known as Sainsbury's (also Sainsbury and JS) the third largest
In 1978, the paper announced its support for a United Ireland. A United Ireland is the term used to refer to a sovereign state encompassing the whole of the island of Ireland.
During the 1990s, the paper was accused of dumbing-down in an unsuccessful attempt to poach readers from Murdoch's Sun, and was widely condemned in 1996 for publishing a headline "For you, Fritz, ze Euro 96 is over!" (regarding England's match versus Germany in the 1996 European Championships) complete with mocked-up photos of Paul Gascoigne and Stuart Pearce wearing tin helmets. is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American The Sun is a Tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language The 1996 UEFA European Football Championship ( Euro 96) was hosted by England. The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football The German national football team (Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft From 1950 to 1990 the team was also informally called West Germany in English as since Paul John Gascoigne (born 27 May 1967 in Dunston, Gateshead, England) often referred to as Gazza, is a retired English Stuart Pearce MBE (born 24 April 1962 in Hammersmith, London) is an English football manager and
In 2002, the Mirror changed its masthead logo from red to black in an attempt to dissociate the paper from the term "red top", a term for a sensationalist mass-market tabloid. Sometimes it was blue. On 6 April 2005 the red top came back. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the Battle of Thapsus Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Under then-editor Piers Morgan, it was the only tabloid newspaper in the UK to oppose the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ran many front pages critical of the war. Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born 30 March 1965) is a former editor of British Tabloid newspapers the News of the The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1 2003 was spearheaded by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia It also gave financial support to the 15 February 2003 anti-war protest, paying for a large screen and providing thousands of placards. The February 15, 2003 anti-war protest was a coordinated day of protests across the world against the imminent invasion of Iraq.
The tabloid gained notoriety in the United States after the re-election of George W. Bush for a second term as President, with its 4 November 2004 cover. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " It trumpeted, "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?". The cover became a favourite of anti-Bush websites. In this issue it provided a list of states and their average IQ, showing the Bush states all below average intelligence except for Virginia, and all Kerry states at or above average intelligence. While widely published, the list was later revealed to be a hoax; no such statistics exist.
The current editor is Richard Wallace. Richard Wallace is the current editor of British newspaper the Daily Mirror.
On 31 August 2007 the Daily Mirror was sued by Leicester City F.C. following an article published the previous day which portrayed false claims regarding the rift between chairman Milan Mandaric and then manager Martin Allen. Events 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the Throne Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. PLEASE NOTE This section is the introduction Please do not add too much detail here Milan Mandarić (Милан Мандарић is a Serbian business tycoon who has owned a string of successful businesses and football clubs including Portsmouth Martin James Allen (born August 18, 1965 in Reading, England) is a former footballer and current manager of Cheltenham [8]
In May 2004, the Daily Mirror published what it claimed were photos of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Beginning in 2004 accounts of Abuse, Torture, Sodomy and Homicide of Prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq The Abu Ghraib prison (سجن أبو غريب also Abu Ghurayb is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km (20 mi west of Baghdad. The decision to publish the photos, which were subsequently shown to be hoaxes, led to the sacking of Morgan as editor on 14 May 2004. Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Daily Mirror then stated that it was the subject of a "calculated and malicious hoax" [1]. The newspaper issued a statement apologizing for the printing of the pictures. The paper's deputy editor, Des Kelly, took over as acting editor during the crisis. For the Ceylonese musician see Desmond Kelly For the Irish carpet and furnishing company see Des Kelly Interiors The tabloid's rival, The Sun, offered a £50,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those accused of faking the Mirror photographs. The Sun is a Tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language
The fact that military experts who looked at the photos were quickly able to point out discrepancies led some to believe that the Mirror accepted the photos without any detailed background checks of their origin. However, in his autobiography The Insider, based on diary entries from the time, Piers Morgan wrote that the decision to publish the photos was a difficult one and extensive consultation was made, not least with his brother, Jeremy, who was in Basra at the time. Basra ( BGN: AlBasrah also called Basorah Abillah and Uruk or IRAQ The name that British colony has adopted for Basra
In February 2008 both The Daily and the Sunday Mirror implied that TV presenter Kate Garraway was having an affair. Kathryn Mary Garraway (born 4 May 1967) is an English Journalist and currently a co- Presenter on GMTV She sued for libel, receiving an apology and compensation payment in April 2008. [9]
The Sunday Mirror is Sunday edition of the newspaper. It began life in 1915 as The Sunday Pictorial and changed to become the Sunday Mirror in 1963. Trinity Mirror also owns The People (once Sunday People). The People, previously known as the Sunday People, is a British tabloid Sunday-only newspaper owned by the Trinity Mirror Group Many commentators have said that the company's ownership of two red-top Sunday papers chasing a similar market is odd, especially as they fight each other for readers as well as the News of the World. The News of the World is a British Tabloid Newspaper published every Sunday
The Sunday Mirror's current editor is Tina Weaver.
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Napoleon, the Stalin figure, is reading the Daily Mirror in the final chapter. Animal Farm is a Novel by George Orwell, and is the most famous satirical Allegory of Soviet Totalitarianism
A cover of the Daily Mirror appears in a wall of the streets at Silent Hill town in the Silent Hill (video game)
A sketch in a 1969 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus parodied the Mirror’s letters pages: 'Dear Mirrorview, I would like to be paid five guineas for saying something stupid about a television programme. Silent Hill is a Video game, the first in the Survival horror series with the same name. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus or during the final series just Monty Python) is a BBC Sketch comedy The guinea coin of 1663 was the first English machine-struck Gold coin. '
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, The Delta Mirror is a newspaper intended to be read by the "Delta" caste, the fourth out of five intelligence castes. Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 &ndash 22 November 1963 was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Brave New World is a 1932 Novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A Castes are Hereditary systems of occupation, Endogamy, social culture, Social class, and Political power. Castes are Hereditary systems of occupation, Endogamy, social culture, Social class, and Political power.
In a skit on the Benny Hill Show, two photographers from London's "mainstream" papers are showing taking photographs of a beautiful model in the regular manner, while two other photographers, identified by their press cards as from The Mirror and The Sun are shown photographing up her skirt. The Benny Hill Show is a British Comedy television show starring Benny Hill and various comedy character actors The Sun is a Tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language