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The Sunday Mirror
The ''Sunday Mirror'' is the Sunday sister paper of the ''Daily Mirror''. It began life in 1915 as the ''Sunday Pictorial'' and was renamed the ''Sunday Mirror'' in 1963. In 2016 it had an average weekly circulation of 620,861, dropping markedly to 505,508 the following year. Competing closely with other papers, in July 2011, on the second weekend after the closure of the ''News of the World'', more than 2,000,000 copies sold, the highest level since January 2000. History ''Sunday Pictorial'' (1915–1963) The paper launched as the ''Sunday Pictorial'' on 14 March 1915. Lord Rothermere – who owned the paper – introduced the ''Sunday Pictorial'' to the British public with the idea of striking a balance between socially responsible reporting of great issues of the day and sheer entertainment. Although the newspaper has gone through many refinements in its near 100-year history those original core values are still in place today. Ever since 1915, the paper has continually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Vaz
Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz (born 26 November 1956) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East for 32 years, from 1987 to 2019. He was the British Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP. Vaz served as the Minister for Europe between October 1999 and June 2001. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in June 2006. He was Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee from July 2007, but resigned from this role on 6 September 2016 after the ''Sunday Mirror'' revealed he had engaged in unprotected sexual activity with male prostitutes and had said he would pay for cocaine if they wished to use it. At the end of October 2016, Vaz was appointed to the Justice Select Committee; a parliamentary vote to block his appointment was defeated. On 10 November 2019, he said in a statement that he was retiring from Parliament and would not be standing for re-election at the general election the following month. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1983. Wilson is the only Labour leader to have formed administrations following four general elections. Born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, to a politically active middle-class family, Wilson won a scholarship to attend Royds Hall Grammar School and went on to study modern history at Jesus College, Oxford. He was later an economic history lecturer at New College, Oxford, and a research fellow at University College, Oxford. Elected to Parliament in 1945 for the seat of Ormskirk, Wilson was immediately appointed to the Attlee government as a Parliamentary Secretary; he became Secretary for Overseas Trade in 1947, and was elevated to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Rowe
Bridget Rowe (16 March 1950 – 12 January 2021) was a British newspaper editor. Life and career Rowe worked for a succession of magazines: ''19'', ''Petticoat'', ''Club'', ''Look Now'' and ''Woman's World'', before becoming Assistant Editor of '' The Sun'', then editor of "Sunday", the '' News of the World'' magazine. In 1986, Rowe became editor of ''Woman's Own'', then left to become editor of ''TV Times''. Rowe edited the '' Sunday Mirror'' from 1991 to 1992, then moved to edit ''The People''. In 1993 ''The People'' published a photo of Sonia Sutcliffe taken by a freelance photographer that breached Press Complaints Commission code of conduct on privacy. Her refusal to accept respsponsibility for the actions of the photographer was described by the PCC as "lamentable". In 1995, she became managing director of both newspapers, and in 1997 she returned to editing the ''Sunday Mirror'' for a year. After this she served as the Director of Communications for the National Magazine Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Pollard
Evelyn, Lady Lloyd, (''née'' Pollard, formerly Winkleman, born 25 December 1943) is an English author and journalist, and has been the editor of several tabloid newspapers. Early life and education Pollard was born in Paddington, London.BBC ''Desert Island Discs'' broadcast 16 December 2011 In her early years Pollard (then known as Pollak) lived in Maida Vale, London, with her Jewish parents Izzo and Martha; and younger twin brothers, Peter and Ralph Pollak, who now live in Southern California. Her mother had left Austria in 1938 and her Hungarian father arrived with the Free French in 1940. She attended a girls' grammar school in London where she developed a love of journalism. Career Her career began at ''Honey'' magazine, where she eventually became fashion editor in 1967. She moved to the ''Daily Mirror'' the following year.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422–1992'', London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p.468 In 1985, she was la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Molloy
Michael Molloy (born 22 December 1940) is a British author and former newspaper editor and cartoonist. Biography Born in Hertfordshire, Molloy studied at Ealing Junior School and the Ealing School of Art before working at the '' Sunday Pictorial'' followed by the '' Daily Sketch'', where he began drawing cartoons. In 1962, he joined the ''Daily Mirror'', where he rose through the ranks until in 1975 he became editor. In 1985, Robert Maxwell appointed Molloy Editor-in-Chief of the ''Daily Mirror'', '' Sunday Mirror'' and ''The People'', where he introduced colour printing. From 1986 to 1988, he additionally edited the ''Sunday Mirror''. From 1985 to 1995, Molloy wrote seven crime fiction books set in England, four featuring Sarah Keane and three featuring Lewis Home. In 1990, Molloy left the Mirror Group, and in 1996 he bought ''Punch'' on behalf of Mohammed Al Fayed. He became its deputy editor, but left after six issues. After retiring from the newspaper industry, he began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Edwards (UK Journalist)
Robert John Edwards (26 October 1925 – 28 May 2012) was a British journalist. Edwards was editor of ''Tribune'' (1951–54), a feature writer on the ''Evening Standard'' (1954–57), deputy editor of the ''Sunday Express'' (1957–59), managing editor of the ''Daily Express'' (1959–1961) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow ''Evening Citizen'' (1962–63), editor of the ''Daily Express'' again (1963–65), editor of the ''Sunday People'' (1966–1972) and editor of the ''Sunday Mirror'' (1972–1984). He was a director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1976 to 1988. He published an autobiography in 1988, ''Goodbye Fleet Street''. He was interviewed by National Life Stories (C467/10) in 2007 for the 'Oral History of the British Press' collection held by the British Library. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Christiansen
Michael Robin Christiansen (7 April 1927 – 12 June 1984) was a British newspaper editor. The son of Arthur Christiansen, editor of the ''Daily Express'', Michael followed his father into journalism."Obituary: Mirror Editor", ''The Guardian'', 16 June 1984 He worked first at the ''Daily Mail'', then in 1956 became Deputy Subeditor of the ''Daily Mirror''."New editor for 'Sunday Mirror'", ''The Guardian'', 12 August 1964 He rose to become assistant editor, and in 1962 gave John Pilger his first job in Britain, on the basis that he supposed he would be good at cricket. In 1963, Christiansen was appointed as editor of the ''Sunday Mirror'', remaining in post until he became deputy editor of the ''Daily Mirror'' in 1972, then editor in 1974. He suffered a stroke the following year, forcing him to retire. In later life, he ran a bookshop in Chelmsford, Essex. He died there on 12 June 1984, at the age of 57. In 2013 Christiansen's son Rupert published an account of growing up with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Valdar
Colin Valdar (18 December 1918 – 11 January 1996) was a British newspaper editor. Valdar studied at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, then in Hampstead. He worked as a freelance journalist from 1935 to 39, then served with the Royal Engineers during World War II. In 1942, he became features editor with the '' Sunday Pictorial'', soon moving to become assistant editor. In 1946, he moved to the ''Daily Express'', again as features editor, and in 1951, they too promoted Valdar to assistant editor. In 1953, Valdar returned to the ''Sunday Pictorial'' as editor, serving until 1959. For last two years of his tenure, he was also a director of the publishing company.''The International Who's Who'' (1961), pp. 991–992 He was able to raise circulation to five million copies per issue.David North,A bow tie and an open door", ''Press Gazette'', 25 November 2005 In 1959, Valdar became editor of the ''Daily Sketch'', serving three years in the post. He was also appointed to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Zec
Philip Zec (25 December 1909 – 14 July 1983) was a British political cartoonist and editor. Moving from the advertising industry to drawing political cartoons due to his abhorrence of the rise of fascism, Donald Zec (journalist)"Zec, Philip (1909–1983)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; accessed 16 September 2008. Zec complemented the ''Daily Mirror'' editorial line with a series of venomous cartoons. He was on the Nazis list of persons to be arrested immediately if they had invaded Britain during the Second World War. His cartoon on VE-day was said to have been a key factor in the Labour Party's 1945 general election campaign. Early life Zec was born in George Street (subsequently North Gower Street), central London, one of eleven children of Simon Zecanovskya, a Russian Jewish tailor from Odessa who, together with his family, had fled oppression in Tsarist Russia.Mark Bryant, Simon Heneage (eds), ''Dictionary of British Cartoonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Campbell (journalist)
Renton Stuart Campbell (4 June 1908 – 1 February 1966) was a British newspaper editor known for "investigation and exposure of criminal and social wrongdoing." Born in Kensal Rise, Campbell studied at Lavender Hill School and Wandsworth Technical Institute Secondary School before working as a reporter for, successively, the '' Hendon and Finchley Times'', the '' Woking Gazette'', the ''Nottingham Guardian'', the ''News Chronicle'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. In 1937, he became assistant editor of the '' Sunday Pictorial'' and, while its editor Hugh Cudlipp served in the forces during World War II, Campbell became its editor.Campbell, (Renton) Stuart , '' |
Graham Johnson (author)
Graham Johnson (born 4 May 1968) is an author and investigative journalist who has written several books and contributed to a variety of publications. His works focus largely on organised crime. Johnson has also made multiple documentary films and appeared on television as a crime pundit. Career Described in parliament as an "investigative reporter supreme", Johnson has written for publications including the ''News of the World'' (despite being from Liverpool), the ''Sunday Mirror'', ''The Observer'', ''Vice'', ''The Guardian'' and the ''Liverpool Echo'', and often publishes crime stories under different bylines. He was shortlisted for Reporter of the Year at the 2005 British Press Awards. Johnson has appeared on Sky and BBC as a crime pundit and reporter. He has also made documentaries for Sky, ''Panorama'' and Germany's ARD. For Vice, Johnson has produced two documentaries, ''Fraud'' and ''The Debt Collector'', which are informed by his own investigations. ''The Debt Collector'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and 'Reblogging, retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile Frontend and backend, frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion Web search query, search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten List of most popular websites, most-visited websites and has been de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
