The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily
tabloid. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company
Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its
masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year.
Its Sunday sister paper is the ''
Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as ''
The Sun'' and the ''
Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news websitePeter Wilb"Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain", ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) publish ...
'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the ''
Daily Record'' and the ''
Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance.
Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a larger audience. It was founded by
Alfred Harmsworth
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922), was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror'', he was an early developer of popular journal ...
, who sold it to his brother
Harold Harmsworth
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, (26 April 1868 – 26 November 1940) was a leading British newspaper proprietor who owned Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is best known, like his brother Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcl ...
(from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1963 a restructuring of the media interests of the Harmsworth family led to the ''Mirror'' becoming a part of
International Publishing Corporation
TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Most of its tit ...
. During the mid-1960s, daily sales exceeded 5 million copies, a feat never repeated by it or any other daily (non-Sunday) British newspaper since. The ''Mirror'' was owned by
Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, member of parliament (MP), suspected spy, and fraudster.
Early in his life, Maxwell escaped from N ...
between 1984 and 1991. The paper went through a protracted period of crisis after his death before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity in 1999 to form
Trinity Mirror.
History
1903–1995
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''The Daily Mirror'' was launched on 2 November 1903 by
Alfred Harmsworth
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922), was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror'', he was an early developer of popular journal ...
(later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. About 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." It cost one
penny (equivalent to p in ).
It was not an immediate success and in 1904 Harmsworth decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper with a broader focus. Harmsworth appointed
Hamilton Fyfe
Henry Hamilton Fyfe (29 September 1869 – 15 June 1951) was a British journalist and writer who was editor of both the newspapers the ''Daily Mirror'' and the '' Daily Herald''.
Career
Born in London, and educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh ...
as editor and all of the paper's female journalists were fired. The masthead was changed to ''The Daily Illustrated Mirror'', which ran from 26 January to 27 April 1904 (issues 72 to 150), when it reverted to ''The Daily Mirror''.
[ Albion (1973) Vol 5, 2-page 150] The first issue of the relaunched paper did not have advertisements on the front page as previously, but instead news text and engraved pictures (of a traitor and an actress), with the promise of photographs inside. Two days later, the price was dropped to one
halfpenny and to the masthead was added: "A paper for men and women". This combination was more successful: by issue 92, the guaranteed circulation was 120,000 copies and by issue 269, it had grown to 200,000: 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.
Alfred Harmsworth sold the newspaper to his brother
Harold Harmsworth
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, (26 April 1868 – 26 November 1940) was a leading British newspaper proprietor who owned Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is best known, like his brother Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcl ...
(from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1917, the price was increased to one penny.
[''Daily Mirror'' issue 4163, 26 February 1917] Circulation continued to grow: in 1919, some issues sold more than a million copies a day, making it the largest daily picture paper.
[''Daily Mirror'' issue 4856, 19 May 1919] In 1924 the newspaper sponsored the
1924 Women's Olympiad held at
Stamford Bridge in London.
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Lord Rothermere was a friend of
Benito Mussolini and
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
, and directed the ''Mirror''s editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s.
On Monday, 22 January 1934 the ''Daily Mirror'' ran the headline "Give the Blackshirts a helping hand" urging readers to join Sir
Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician during the 1920s and 1930s who rose to fame when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member ...
's
British Union of Fascists, and giving the address to which to send membership applications. By the mid-1930s, 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 two million, and Rothermere decided to sell his shares in it.
In 1935 Rothermere sold the paper to H. G. Bartholomew and
Hugh Cudlipp
Hubert Kinsman Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp, OBE (28 August 1913 – 17 May 1998), was a Welsh journalist and newspaper editor noted for his work on the ''Daily Mirror'' in the 1950s and 1960s. He served as chairman of the Mirror Group group of ...
. With
Cecil King (Rothermere's nephew) in charge of the paper's finances and Guy Bartholomew as editor, during the late 1930s the ''Mirror'' was transformed from a conservative, middle class newspaper into a
left-wing
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...
paper for the working class. Partly on the advice of the American advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, the ''Mirror'' became the first British paper to adopt the appearance of the New York tabloids. The headlines became bigger, the stories shorter and the illustrations more abundant. By 1939, the publication was selling 1.4 million copies a day. In 1937,
Hugh McClelland Hugh McClelland may refer to:
* Hugh McClelland (politician)
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He was born in Smeaton, Victoria, his family reportedly having come to Victoria with the Hen ...
introduced his wild Western comic strip ''Beelzebub Jones'' in the ''Daily Mirror''. After taking over as cartoon chief at the ''Mirror'' in 1945, he dropped ''Beelzebub Jones'' and moved on to a variety of new strips.
During the Second World War the ''Mirror'' positioned itself as the paper of the ordinary soldier and civilian, and was critical of the political leadership and the established parties. At one stage, the paper was threatened with closure following the publication of a
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 (190 ...
cartoon (captioned by
William Connor
Sir William Neil Connor (26 April 1909 – 6 April 1967) was an English newspaper journalist for the ''Daily Mirror'' who wrote under the pen name of "Cassandra".
Biography
William Connor wrote a regular column for over 30 years between 1935D ...
), which was misinterpreted by
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...
and
Herbert Morrison
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British politician who held a variety of senior positions in the UK Cabinet as member of the Labour Party. During the inter-war period, he was Minis ...
.
In the
1945 general election the paper strongly supported the
Labour Party in its eventual landslide victory. In doing so, the paper supported Herbert Morrison, who co-ordinated Labour's campaign, and recruited his former antagonist Philip Zec to reproduce, on the front page, a popular
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the official end of World War II in Europe in the Easter ...
cartoon on the morning of the election, suggesting that Labour were the only party who could maintain peace in post-war Britain.
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 more than 5 million copies a day at its peak in the mid-1960s.
The ''Mirror'' was an influential model for German tabloid ''
Bild'', which was founded in 1952 and became Europe's biggest-selling newspaper.
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In 1955, the ''Mirror'' and its stablemate the ''Sunday Pictorial'' (later to become the ''Sunday Mirror'') began printing a northern edition in
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
. In 1957 it introduced the Andy Capp cartoon, created by Reg Smythe from Hartlepool, in the northern editions.
The ''Mirror'' mass working-class readership had made it the United Kingdom's best-selling daily
tabloid newspaper. In 1960, it acquired the ''
Daily Herald'' (the popular daily of the labour movement) when it bought
Odhams
Odhams Press was a British publishing company, operating from 1920 to 1968. Originally a magazine publisher, Odhams later expanded into book publishing and then children's comics. The company was acquired by Fleetway Publications in 1961 and the ...
, in one of a series of takeovers which created the
International Publishing Corporation
TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Most of its tit ...
(IPC). The ''Mirror'' management did not want the ''Herald'' competing with the ''Mirror'' for readers, and in 1964, relaunched it as a mid-market paper, now named ''
The Sun''. When it failed to win readers, ''The Sun'' was sold to
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch ( ; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including ...
– who immediately relaunched it as a more
populist
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and sensationalist tabloid and a direct competitor to the ''Mirror''.
In an attempt to cater to a different kind of reader, the ''Mirror'' launched the "Mirrorscope" pull-out section on 30 January 1968. The ''
Press Gazette
''Press Gazette'', formerly known as ''UK Press Gazette'' (UKPG), is a British media trade magazine dedicated to journalism and the press. First published in 1965, it had a circulation of about 2,500, before becoming online-only in 2013. Publis ...
'' commented: "The ''Daily Mirror'' launched its revolutionary four-page supplement "Mirrorscope". The ambitious brief for the supplement, which ran on Wednesdays and Fridays, was to deal with international affairs, politics, industry, science, the arts and business". 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". It failed to attract significant numbers of new readers, and the pull-out section was abandoned, its final issue appearing on 27 August 1974.
In 1978, ''The Sun'' overtook the ''Mirror'' in circulation, and in 1984 the ''Mirror'' was sold to
Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, member of parliament (MP), suspected spy, and fraudster.
Early in his life, Maxwell escaped from N ...
. After Maxwell's death in 1991,
David Montgomery became Mirror Group's CEO, and a period of cost-cutting and production changes ensued. The ''Mirror'' went through a protracted period of crisis before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity to form
Trinity Mirror in 1999. Printing of the ''Daily'' and ''Sunday Mirror'' moved to Trinity Mirror's facilities in Watford and Oldham.
1995–2004
Under the editorship of
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (; né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is a British broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality. He began his Fleet Street career in 1988 at '' The Sun''. In 1994, aged 29, he was appointed editor of the ...
(from October 1995 to May 2004) the paper saw a number of controversies. Morgan was widely criticised and forced to apologise for the headline "ACHTUNG! SURRENDER For you Fritz, ze Euro 96 Championship is over" a day before
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
met
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
in a semi-final of the
Euro 96
The 1996 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 96, was the 10th UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football tournament contested by European nations and organised by UEFA. It took place in England from 8 to 30 ...
football championships.
In 2000, Morgan was the subject of an investigation after Suzy Jagger wrote a story in ''
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
It was fo ...
'' revealing that he had bought
£20,000 worth of shares in the computer company
Viglen
Viglen Ltd provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers, workstations and data/voice communications equipment and services.
History
The company was formed in 1975, by Vigen Boyadjian. During the 1980s, the company s ...
soon before the ''Mirror''s 'City Slickers' column tipped Viglen as a good buy.
Morgan was found by the
Press Complaints Commission
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) was a voluntary regulatory body for British printed newspapers and magazines, consisting of representatives of the major publishers. The PCC closed on Monday 8 September 2014, and was replaced by the Inde ...
to have breached the Code of Conduct on financial journalism, but kept his job. The 'City Slickers' columnists,
Anil Bhoyrul
Anil Bhoyrul (born Mauritius, May 1966) is a British business journalist who was convicted of breaching the Financial Services Act 1986 in the 'City Slickers' share tipping scandal of 1999-2000. After writing for the Sunday Express, he joined ' ...
and
James Hipwell, were both found to have committed further breaches of the Code, and were sacked before the inquiry. In 2004, further enquiry by the
Department of Trade and Industry cleared Morgan from any charges.
On 7 December 2005 Bhoyrul and Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act. During the trial it emerged that Morgan had bought £67,000 worth of Viglen shares, emptying his bank account and investing under his wife's name too.
In 2002, the ''Mirror'' attempted to move mid-market, claiming to eschew the more trivial stories of show-business and gossip. The paper changed its masthead logo from red to black (and occasionally blue), in an attempt to dissociate itself from the term "
red top", a term for a sensationalist mass-market tabloid. (On 6 April 2005, the red top came back.) Under then-editor
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (; né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is a British broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality. He began his Fleet Street career in 1988 at '' The Sun''. In 1994, aged 29, he was appointed editor of the ...
, the newspaper's editorial stance opposed the
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...
, and ran many front pages critical of the war. It also gave financial support to the
15 February 2003 anti-war protest
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, paying for a large screen and providing thousands of placards. Morgan re-hired
John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (; born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. He has been mainly based in Britain since 1962. He was also once visiting professor at Cornell University in New York.
Pilge ...
, who had been sacked during
Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, member of parliament (MP), suspected spy, and fraudster.
Early in his life, Maxwell escaped from N ...
's ownership of the Mirror titles. Despite such changes, Morgan was unable to halt the paper's decline in circulation, a decline shared by its direct
tabloid rivals ''
The Sun'' and the ''
Daily Star''.
Morgan was fired from the ''Mirror'' on 14 May 2004 after authorising the newspaper's publication of photographs allegedly showing
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
i prisoners being abused by
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...
soldiers from the
Queen's Lancashire Regiment
The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (30th, 40th, 47th, 59th, 81st and 82nd Regiments of Foot) (QLR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division. It was formed on 25 March 1970 at Connaught Barracks in Dover through ...
. Within days the photographs were shown to be fakes. Under the headline "SORRY.. WE WERE HOAXED", the ''Mirror'' responded that it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and apologised for the publication of the photographs.
2004–present
The ''Mirror'' front page on 4 November 2004, after the re-election of
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...
as U.S. President, read "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?". It provided a list of states and their alleged average IQ, showing the Bush states all below average intelligence (except for
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
), and all
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party (Unite ...
states at or above average intelligence. The source for this table was ''
The Economist
''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Econo ...
'', although it was a hoax.
Richard Wallace became editor in 2004.
On 30 May 2012, Trinity Mirror announced the merger of the ''Daily Mirror'' and ''Sunday Mirror'' into a single seven-day-a-week title. Richard Wallace and Tina Weaver, the respective editors of the ''Daily Mirror'' and ''Sunday Mirror'', were simultaneously dismissed and
Lloyd Embley, editor of ''The People'', appointed as editor of the combined title with immediate effect. In 2018, Reach plc acquired the Northern & Shell titles, including the Daily Express, which led to a number of editor moves across the stable. Lloyd Embley was then promoted to editor-in-chief across the entire group, and
Alison Phillips
Alison Phillips (born 1970) is a British journalist and the Editor of the ''Daily Mirror'' since 2018.
Biography
Phillips grew up in Essex and first worked as a reporter for the ''Harlow Star'' Weekly Newspaper. She then attended the Universi ...
(previously deputy editor-in-chief for the Trinity Mirror titles) was appointed editor of the Daily Mirror.
Political allegiance
The ''Mirror'' has consistently supported the
Labour Party since the
1945 general election. On 3 May 1979, the day of the
general election, the ''Daily Mirror'' urged its readers to vote for the governing Labour Party led by
James Callaghan.
As widely predicted by the opinion polls, Labour lost this election and
Conservative
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. S ...
became Prime Minister.
The ''Mirror''s continued support of the Labour government was in spite of its falling popularity over the previous few months which had been the result of the
Winter of Discontent
The Winter of Discontent was the period between November 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minis ...
, where the country was crippled by numerous public sector strikes.
By the time of the
1983 general election, Labour support was at a postwar low, partly due to the strong challenge by the recently formed
SDP–Liberal Alliance
The SDP–Liberal Alliance was a centrist and social liberal political and electoral alliance in the United Kingdom.
Formed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party, the SDP–Liberal Alliance was established in 1981, contest ...
. Despite this, the ''Daily Mirror'' remained loyal to Labour and urged its readers to vote for the party, now led by
Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 19133 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Labour Leader from 1980 to 1983. Foot began his career as a journalist on ''Tribune'' and the ''Evening Standard''. He co-wrote the 1940 p ...
, condemning the Thatcher-led Tory government for its "waste of our nation"
and the rise in unemployment that Thatcher's Conservative government had seen in its first term in power largely due to
monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation, although the government's previously low popularity had dramatically improved since the success of the
Falklands conflict
The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories, British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland I ...
a year earlier. However, the Conservatives were re-elected and Labour suffered its worst postwar general election result, only narrowly bettering the SDP–Liberal Alliance in terms of votes whilst winning considerably more seats.
At the
1987 general election, the ''Daily Mirror'' remained loyal to Labour, now led by
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a British former politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of ...
, and urged its readers with the slogan "You know he's right, chuck her out."
By this stage, unemployment was falling and inflation had remained low for several years. As a result, the Tories were re-elected for a third successive term, although Labour did cut the Tory majority slightly.
For the
1992 general election, the ''Daily Mirror'' continued to support Labour, still led by
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a British former politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of ...
. By this stage, Thatcher had stepped down and the Tory government was now led by
John Major
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997, and as Member of Parliament ...
.
The election was won by the Conservatives, although Labour managed to significantly cut the Tory majority to 21 seats compared to the triple-digit figure of the previous two elections, which led to a difficult term for Major. The outcome of this election had been far less predictable than any of the previous three elections, as opinion polls over the previous three years had shown both parties in the lead, although any Labour lead in the polls had been relatively narrow since the Conservative government's change of leader from Thatcher to Major in November 1990, in spite of the onset of the
early 1990s recession which had pushed unemployment up again after several years of decline. Labour's credibility was helped by plans including extra
National Health Service
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(NHS) funding and moving away from firm commitments on re-nationalisation to reverse the Conservative policy of privatisation, but its decision to be up-front about tax increases was seen as a key factor in its failure to win.
By the time of the
1997 general election, support for the Labour Party, now led by
Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
, in the opinion polls had exceeded that of support for the Conservative government led by
John Major
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997, and as Member of Parliament ...
since late 1992, whose reduced popularity largely blamed on the failings of
Black Wednesday
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in September of that year and it had failed to recover popularity in spite of a strong economic recovery and fall in unemployment. A reinvented
New Labour
New Labour was a period in the history of the British Labour Party from the mid to late 1990s until 2010 under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The name dates from a conference slogan first used by the party in 1994, later seen ...
had further improved its credibility under Blair by promising traditional Labour essentials including more funding for healthcare and education, but also promising not to increase income tax and ending its commitment to the nationalisation of leading industries. The ''Daily Mirror'' urged its readers that their country needed
Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
, and to vote Labour.
The 1997 election produced a Labour landslide that ended the party's 18-year exile from power, followed by two further election wins in
2001 and
2005. On 4 May 2010, the newspaper printed a picture of Conservative leader
David Cameron with a giant red cross through his face. The headline read "How to stop him" in reference to the
2010 general election two days later, confirming the ''Daily Mirror''s Labour allegiance. The election ended in Britain's first
hung parliament
A hung parliament is a term used in legislatures primarily under the Westminster system to describe a situation in which no single political party or pre-existing coalition (also known as an alliance or bloc) has an absolute majority of legisla ...
since
1974, but Cameron still became prime minister within days as the Conservatives formed a coalition with the
Liberal Democrats. The ''Daily Mirror'' was the only leading national newspaper to remain loyal to Labour and
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Tony B ...
at a time when opinion polls showed the party on course for their worst election result since 1983.
The newspaper was critical of the Liberal Democrats for forming the coalition which enabled the Conservatives to form a new government in 2010, and branded leader
Nick Clegg
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as Pinickio (alluding to the lying fictional character
Pinocchio
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) for going back on numerous pre-election pledges. It has frequently referred to the party as the "Fib Dems" or "Lib Dumbs". The ''Daily Mirror'' endorsed
Democratic candidate
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
in the run-up for the
2016 United States presidential election
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. Also in 2016, the newspaper asked for
Jeremy Corbyn
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's resignation "for the good of the party and of the country." Despite this critical position, the ''Daily Mirror'' endorsed the Labour Party in the
2017 general election. For the
2019 general election, the newspaper again endorsed Labour "to protect NHS, end poverty and for a kinder Britain."
Famous features
* Cartoon strips "
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
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" (1919–56), "
Jane
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" (1932–59), "
Garth
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* Garth, Bridgend, a village in south Wales
:* Garth railway station (Bridgend)
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:* Garth railway station (Powy ...
" (1943–97, reprints 2011), "
Just Jake" (1938–52), "
Andy Capp
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The s ...
" (1957–), and "
The Perishers
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" (1955–2006 and later reprints).
* "The Old Codgers", a fictional pair who commented on the letters page from 1935 to 1990.
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* Chalky White, who would wander around various British seaside resorts waiting to be recognised by ''Mirror'' readers (an obscured photo of him having been published in that day's paper). Anyone who recognised him would have to repeat some phrase along the lines of " To my delight, it's Chalky White" to win £5. The name continues to be used on the cartoons page, as Andy Capp
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The s ...
's best friend.
* "Shock issues" intended to highlight a particular news story.
* The columnist Cassandra
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(1935–67).
* "Dear Marje", a problem page by agony aunt Marjorie Proops.
* Investigative reporting by Paul Foot and John Pilger
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Pilge ...
(including the latter's exposé of the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia).
* "The Shopping Basket". Starting in the mid-1970s, the paper monitored the cost of a £5 basket of shopping to see how it increased in price over the years.
Blue issue
On 2 April 1996, the ''Daily Mirror'' was printed entirely on blue paper. This was done as a marketing exercise with Pepsi-Cola
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, who on the same day had decided to relaunch its cans with a blue design instead of the traditional red and white logo.[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1996-04-02/1996-04-02?NewspaperTitle=Daily%2BMirror&IssueId=BL%2F0000560%2F19960402%2F&County=London%2C%20England ]
Libel, contempt of court, errors and criticism
* In the 1959 '' Liberace v Daily Mirror'' case, Liberace
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sued the ''Mirror'' for libel. William Connor
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William Connor wrote a regular column for over 30 years between 1935D ...
had written a pseudonymous column hinting that the American entertainer was a homosexual; homosexual acts were illegal in Britain at the time. The jury found in Liberace's favour and he received £8,000 in damage (estimated at around £500,000 in 2009). After Liberace's death, the paper editorially asked, "Can we have our money back, please?"
* In 1991, shortly after the death of Queen
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's lead singer Freddie Mercury, the ''Daily Mirror'' ran a homophobic
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column by Joe Haines which contained extensive insults towards Mercury, HIV/AIDS
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victims, and homosexuals. The article prompted an open letter in condemnation from folk singer Lal Waterson
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, later recorded as a song by her sister Norma Norma may refer to:
* Norma (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
Astronomy
*Norma (constellation)
* 555 Norma, a minor asteroid
*Cygnus Arm or Norma Arm, a spiral arm in the Milky Way galaxy
Geography
*Norma, Lazi ...
.
* In December 1992, Scottish politician George Galloway won libel damages from the ''Daily Mirror'' and its Scottish sister the ''Daily Record'', who had falsely accused him of making malicious allegations about their foreign editor Nicholas Davies. Galloway had used parliamentary privilege to call for an independent investigation into allegations about Davies made in the book ''The Samson Option''.
* In May 2004, the ''Daily Mirror'' published what it claimed were photos of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at an unspecified location in Iraq. The decision to publish the photos, subsequently shown to be hoaxes, led to Piers Morgan's sacking as editor of the paper on 14 May 2004. The ''Daily Mirror'' then stated that it was the subject of a "calculated and malicious hoax". The newspaper issued a statement apologising for the printing of the pictures. The paper's deputy editor, Des Kelly, took over as acting editor during the crisis. The tabloid's rival, ''The Sun'', offered a £50,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those accused of faking the ''Mirror'' photographs.
* In June 2004, American model Caprice Bourret
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Bourret attended the co-ed Cathol ...
won a libel case against the ''Daily Mirror'' for an article in April that year which falsely claimed that her acting career had failed.
* In November 2007, the ''Daily Mirror'' paid damages to Sir Andrew Green after having likened him and his group MigrationWatch UK
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to the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party
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in September of that year. The newspaper admitted that such allegations were "untrue".
* In February 2008 both the ''Daily'' and the ''Sunday Mirror'' implied that TV presenter Kate Garraway
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was having an affair. She sued for libel, receiving an apology and compensation payment in April 2008.
* On 18 September 2008, David Anderson, a British sports journalist writing for the ''Mirror'', repeated a claim deriving from vandalism on Wikipedia's entry for Cypriot football team AC Omonia
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, which asserted that their fans were called "The Zany Ones" and liked to wear hats made from discarded shoes. The claim was part of Anderson's match preview ahead of AC Omonia's game with Manchester City, which appeared in the web and print versions of the ''Mirror'', with the nickname also quoted in subsequent editions on 19 September.
* In November 2009, the ''Mirror'' paid "substantial libel damages" to Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo
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after it admitted that a story about him becoming highly intoxicated in a Hollywood nightclub was untrue.
* On 12 May 2011, the High Court of England and Wales
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granted the Attorney General permission to bring a case for contempt against ''The Sun'' and the ''Daily Mirror'' for the way they had reported on the arrest of a person of interest in the Murder of Joanna Yeates. On 29 July, the Court ruled that both newspapers had been in contempt of court, fining the ''Daily Mirror'' £50,000 and ''The Sun'' £18,000.
* In October 2013, a defamation case brought by the Irish airline Ryanair against the ''Daily Mirror'' was settled out of court. The ''Mirror'' had repeated allegations about the airline's safety from a Channel 4
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documentary which were not reflected by its most recent evaluation by the Irish Aviation Authority
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.
* On 19 July 2011 the ''Mirror'' published an article labelling comedian Frankie Boyle
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a racist. He later sued for defamation and libel, winning £54,650 in damages and a further £4,250 for a claim about his departure from ''Mock the Week
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''. The ''Mirror'' had argued he was "forced to quit" but this was found to be libellous by the court.
* On 20 March 2017 the ''Mirror'' painted the traditional Russian pancake celebration Maslenitsa
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as a Hooligan
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training ground. One of the centuries-old tradition in this Russian festival is "wall-to-wall" (' stenka na stenku', Ru) which is sparring between men dressed in traditional folk clothes. This tradition was wrongly represented by the ''Mirror'' in the pictures and text, labelled as violent acts and living in fear without giving context or any information about this Russian traditional festival at all. The ''Mirror'' article was titled "Russia's Ultra yobs infiltrated amid warnings England fans could be KILLED at World Cup
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.", and received negative receptions from Russian media, also being described as fake news
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. Representatives of the ''Daily Mirror'' acknowledged that the original material of the publication about Russian Hooligans was incorrectly illustrated with images of the traditional festival. In the updated version of the article the newspaper continued to insist that the photographed people were hooligans in the pictures, but gave no evidence of their participation in the festival.
* In March 2019, the ''Daily Mirror'' faced criticism from social media users, as well as from columnist Owen Jones
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and journalist Mehdi Hasan
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Hasan has been the host of ''The Mehdi Hasan Show'' on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.
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, for covering the Christchurch mosque shootings
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with the headline "Angelic boy who grew into an evil far-right mass killer" in reference to perpetrator Brenton Tarrant. Users criticised it for humanising Tarrant while ignoring the victims, and for the perceived double standard of how attacks conducted by Islamists are portrayed more negatively than those by white supremacists. These criticisms typically contrasted the ''Daily Mirrors coverage of Tarrant with its coverage of Orlando nightclub shooting
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In a 9- ...
perpetrator Omar Mateen
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three years earlier, who was covered with the headline "ISIS Manic Kills 50 in Gay Nightclub".
Significant staff members
Editors
:1903 to 1904: Mary Howarth
:1904 to 1907: Hamilton Fyfe
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:1907 to 1915: Alexander Kenealy
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:1915 to 1916: Ed Flynn
:1916 to 1929: Alexander Campbell
:1929 to 1931: Cameron Hogg
:1931 to 1934: Leigh Brownlee
:1934 to 1948: Cecil Thomas
:1948 to 1953: Silvester Bolam
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:1953 to 1961: Jack Nener
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:1961 to 1971: Lee Howard
:1971 to 1974: Tony Miles
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:1974 to 1975: Michael Christiansen
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The son of Arthur Christiansen, editor of the ''Daily Express'', Michael followed his father into journalism."Obituary: Mirror Editor", ''The Guardian'', 16 ...
:1975 to 1985: Mike Molloy
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Born in Hertfordshire, Molloy studied at Ealing Junior School and the Ealing School of Art before working at the ''Sunday Pictori ...
:1985 to 1990: Richard Stott
:1990 to 1991: Roy Greenslade
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:1991 to 1992: Richard Stott
:1992 to 1994: David Banks
:1994 to 1995: Colin Myler
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Myler grew up in the Hough Green area of Widnes, Cheshire. He was raised Catholic, served as an altar boy and attended SS John Fisher and Thomas More Roman Catholic High School, at the time ...
:1995 to 2004: Piers Morgan
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:2004 to 2012: Richard Wallace
:2012 to 2018: Peter Willis
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:2018 to date: Alison Phillips
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Biography
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Source: ''Tabloid Nation''
Notable columnists
Notable former and current columnists of the ''Daily Mirror'' include:
* The 3AM Girls
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Background
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(gossip columnists)
*Anne Robinson
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(columnist and deputy editor)
* William Connor
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Biography
William Connor wrote a regular column for over 30 years between 1935D ...
(opinion under the pseudonym ''Cassandra'' (1935–1967))
* Caradoc Evans
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(1917–1923)
* Richard Hammond (motoring and Saturday columnist)
* Oliver Holt
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(sports columnist)
* Kevin Maguire (UK politics)
* Penman & Greenwood
The ''Daily Mirror'' investigators who exposed rogues in the Thursday edition of the paper between 1999 and 2006.
Journalists Andrew Penman and Michael Greenwood found the cheats and confronted them.
The investigations column, launched in 1997, wa ...
(investigators)
* Fiona Phillips
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(Saturday columnist)
* Brian Reade
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He began his journalism career working on the ''Reading Evening Post'' in 1980 and became a col ...
(Thursday columnist; also does a sports column on Saturdays)
* Keith Waterhouse
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(largely humorous (1970–1986, previously a reporter.)
* Chris Hughes
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(security and defence)
* Geoffrey Goodman
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(1969–1986)
Awards
''The Daily Mirror'' won "Newspaper of the Year" in 2002 at the British Press Awards
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History
Established in 1962 by ''The Sunday People, The People'' and ''Campaign (magazine), World's Press ...
. It won "Scoop of the Year" in 2003 ("3am", 'Sven and Ulrika'), 2004 (Ryan Parry, 'Intruder at the Palace'), 2006 and 2007 (both Stephen Moyes).['']Press Gazette
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''
Roll of Honour
. Retrieved 24 July 2011 The ''Mirror'' won "Team of the Year" in 2001 ('Railtrack'), 2002 ('War on the World: World against Terrorism'), 2003 ('Soham'), and 2006 ('London bombings'); and "Front Page of the Year" in 2007.[ The ''Mirror'' also won the "Cudlipp Award" in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2010.][
]
See also
* '' The Wharf'', sister newspaper for the Isle of Dogs
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.
* ''Daily Mirror'' Silver Cup
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References
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