The ''News Chronicle'' was a British daily
newspaper
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. Formed by the merger of ''
The Daily News'' and the ''
Daily Chronicle
The 'Daily Chronicle' was a British newspaper that was published from 1872 to 1930 when it merged with the '' Daily News'' to become the ''News Chronicle''.
Foundation
The ''Daily Chronicle'' was developed by Edward Lloyd out of a local newspap ...
'' in 1930, it ceased publication on 17 October 1960,
[''Liberal Democrat News'' 15 October 2010, accessed 15 October 2010] being absorbed into 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 ...
''. Its offices were at 12/22,
Bouverie Street, off
Fleet Street
Fleet Street is a major street mostly in the City of London. It runs west to east from Temple Bar at the boundary with the City of Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the London Wall and the River Fleet from which the street was na ...
, London, EC4Y 8DP, England.
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''Daily Chronicle''
The ''Daily Chronicle
The 'Daily Chronicle' was a British newspaper that was published from 1872 to 1930 when it merged with the '' Daily News'' to become the ''News Chronicle''.
Foundation
The ''Daily Chronicle'' was developed by Edward Lloyd out of a local newspap ...
'' was founded in 1872. Purchased by Edward Lloyd Edward Lloyd may refer to:
Politicians
*Edward Lloyd (MP for Montgomery), Welsh lawyer and politician
* Edward Lloyd (16th-century MP) (died 1547) for Buckingham
*Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (1768–1854), British politician
*Edward Lloyd (Colon ...
for £30,000 in 1876, it achieved a high reputation under the editorship of Henry Massingham and Robert Donald, who took charge in 1904.
Owned by the Cadbury family
The Cadbury family is a wealthy British family of Quaker industrialists descending from Richard Tapper Cadbury.
* Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768–1860) draper and abolitionist, who financed his sons' start-up business
** John Cadbury (1801–1889 ...
, with Laurence Cadbury as chairman,Dennis Griffiths
Dennis Griffiths (8 December 1933 – 24 December 2015) was a British journalist and historian, regarded as the founding father of newspaper history from the earliest days of Fleet Street. His ''Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422–1992'' has ...
(ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422–1992'', London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p.437 the ''News Chronicle'' was formed by the merger of the '' Daily News'' and the ''Daily Chronicle'' on 2 June 1930,[Timeline of UK newspapers](_blank)
with Walter Layton
Walter Thomas Layton, 1st Baron Layton (15 March 1884 – 14 February 1966), was a British economist, editor, newspaper proprietor and Liberal Party politician.
Background and education
Layton was the son of Alfred John Layton of Woking, Surre ...
appointed as editorial director.
Politics
With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...
, the paper took an anti-Franco stance and sent three correspondents to Spain in 1936-37: Denis Weaver, who was captured and nearly shot before being released; Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler, (, ; ; hu, Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler join ...
(to Málaga);[Obituary of Sir Geoffrey Cox](_blank)
''The Times'' 4 April 2008 and, later, Geoffrey Cox (to Madrid). The paper's editorial staff took an active part in campaigning for the release of Koestler, who was captured by Franco's forces at the fall of Málaga and was in imminent danger of being executed.
Following Koestler's release, the paper sent him to Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
, then convulsed by the Arab revolt
The Arab Revolt ( ar, الثورة العربية, ) or the Great Arab Revolt ( ar, الثورة العربية الكبرى, ) was a military uprising of Arab forces against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. On ...
. In a series of articles in the paper, Koestler urged adoption of the Peel Commission
The Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, was a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes of unrest in Mandatory Palestine, which was administered by Gre ...
's recommendation for partition of Palestine, as "the only practical way of ending the bloodshed". In his autobiography Koestler notes that en route to Palestine he had stopped in Athens
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and had clandestine meetings with Communists and Liberals opposing the then Metaxas dictatorship, but the ''News Chronicle'' refused to publish his resulting strongly worded anti-Metaxas articles.[Arthur Koestler, op.cit., Ch.37]
In 1956, the ''News Chronicle'' opposed the UK's military support of Israel in invading the Suez
Suez ( ar, السويس '; ) is a seaport city (population of about 750,000 ) in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez (a branch of the Red Sea), near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boun ...
canal zone, a decision which cost it circulation. According to Geoffrey Goodman
Geoffrey George Goodman (2 July 1922 – 5 September 2013Mike Molloy"Obituary: Geoffrey Goodman" theguardian.com, 6 September 2013.) was a British journalist, broadcaster and writer. Following periods on the ''News Chronicle'' and the '' Daily He ...
, a journalist on the newspaper at the time, it was "one of British journalism's prime casualties of the Suez crisis".[Geoffrey Goodma]
"Suez and Fleet Street"
BBC News, 1 November 2006. Accessed: 3 May 2010
Folding
On 17 October 1960, the ''News Chronicle'' "finally folded, inappropriately, into the grip" of the right-wing ''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 ...
'' despite having a circulation of over a million. The ''News Chronicles editorial position was considered at the time to be in broad support of the British Liberal Party
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, which was in marked contrast to that of the right-wing
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''Daily Mail''. As part of the same takeover, the London evening paper ''The Star
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'' was incorporated into the ''Evening News Evening News may refer to:
Television news
*''CBS Evening News'', an American news broadcast
*''ITV Evening News'', a UK news broadcast
*'' JNN Evening News'', a Japanese news broadcast
*''Evening News'', an alternate name for '' News Hour'' in so ...
''.
Notable contributors
Notable contributors to the ''News Chronicle'' and its predecessors included:
*Stephen G. Barber - foreign correspondent, World War II, Greek Civil War, Korean War, Indochina, Cyprus Crisis, Sharpeville Massacre, decolonization in Africa. Also worked for ''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 ...
'' in India and Bureau Chief in Washington, D.C. 1963-1980
*Frank D. Barber - foreign correspondent, later Head of Central Current Affairs & Talks, BBC World Service, and father of Financial Times editor Lionel Barber
*Vernon Bartlett
Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett, CBE (30 April 1894 – 18 January 1983) was an English journalist, politician and author. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1938 to 1950: first as an Independent Progressive advocating a Popular Fro ...
– diplomatic correspondent
*Ritchie Calder
Peter Ritchie Calder, Baron Ritchie-Calder, (1906 – 1982) was a Scottish socialist writer, journalist and academic.
Early life
Peter Ritchie Calder was born on 1 July 1906 in Forfar, Angus, Scotland.
Career
Calder first worked as a journ ...
- science editor, who broke the story of the discovery of DNA structure in 1953
*James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, he is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly pushing the boundaries of cinematic capability w ...
– war correspondent
*G.K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, ''Time'' observed: "Wh ...
– weekly opinion column in the ''Daily News''
*Norman Clark - war correspondent; foreign editor
* Geoffrey Cox – war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...
(in Madrid); former editor and chief executive of ITN. Began his career with the ''News Chronicle'' in 1932
*E. S. Dallas
Eneas Sweetland Dallas (E. S. Dallas) (1828–1879) was a Scottish journalist and author.
Biography
E.S. Dallas was the elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica, a planter of Scottish parentage, and his wife Elizabeth ( née Baillie), the daughte ...
– Paris correspondent
*Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
– war correspondent for the ''Daily Chronicle'' during World War I
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*William ("Willie") Forrest - war correspondent in Spain and World War II; foreign correspondent
*Philip Jordan – war correspondent, World War II
*Thomas Kettle
Thomas Michael Kettle (9 February 1880 – 9 September 1916) was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, war poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for ...
– war correspondent for the ''Daily News'' during the early part of World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
*Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler, (, ; ; hu, Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler join ...
– writer and war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...
* Patrick Maitland, (later MP for Lanark and Earl of Lauderdale) - war correspondent for ''News Chronicle'', Pacific, 1941 to 1944
* Richard Moore - leader writer and father of journalist Charles Moore
*Louise Morgan - American born, Editor and Journalist, writer of ''News Chronicle'' articles: from 1933 to the late 1950s and author of Inside Yourself: A New Way to Health Based on the Alexander Technique
*C.W.A. Scott
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- aviation editor
* John Segrue – foreign correspondent; twice expelled by the Nazis, he was eventually captured and interned in a German prisoner-of-war camp, where he died in 1942.
*Sir Patrick Sergeant - later ''Daily Mail'' City Editor, founder and owner of Euromoney
* H.G. Wells – contributor to the ''Daily News''
Editors
:1930: Tom Clarke
:1933: Aylmer Vallance
:1936: Gerald Barry
:1948: Robin Cruikshank
Robin may refer to:
Animals
* Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae
* Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including:
**European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'')
** Bush-robin
**Forest r ...
:1954: Michael Curtis
:1957: Norman Cursley
See also
*'' Get Ahead'': BBC TV programme broadcast from 1958 to 1962 which was sponsored by the paper.
"Brief history of the Enterprise Class"
The ''News Chronicle'' sponsored Jack Holt in 1955 to design the Enterprise (dinghy)
The Enterprise is a Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy with a double-chined hull and distinctive blue sails. Normally crewed by two, and sometimes carrying a third crew member, it may also be sailed single-handed.
History
The Enterprise was designe ...
*''The Cricket Annual
''The Cricket Annual'' was a compact cricket annual publication published in 1961 and 1962. This was the final name of a cricket annual that had first appeared in 1895, and was before it was re-named to become the re-styled Playfair Cricket Annu ...
'': A cricket annual which for many years was published as the News Chronicle Cricket Annual.
Notes
External links
Concise History of British Newspaper in the 20th Century
– www.bl.uk
– Spartacus Educational
– Spartacus Educational
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