''Reynold's News'' was a Sunday

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in the

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, founded as ''Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper''Joanne Shattock, ''The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'', p.2908 by George W. M. Reynolds in 1850, who became its first editor. By 1870, the paper was selling more than 350,000 weekly copies. George died in 1879, and was succeeded as editor by his brother,

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.Gone and (largely) forgotten
", ''British Journalism Review'', Vol. 17, No. 2, 2006, pp.50–52 After Edward's death in 1894, the paper was bought by Henry Dalziel and, in 1924, was retitled ''Reynold's Illustrated News''. In 1929, the paper was acquired by the

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, and, in 1936, its title was shortened to ''Reynold's News''. After the left-wing journalist H. N. Brailsford wrote a series of articles in ''Reynold's News'' critical of the Moscow show trials, the paper received hundreds of letters both supporting Brailsford and criticising him.F. M. Leventhal, "H. N. Brailsford and Russia: The Problem of Objectivity", in ''Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies'', vol. 5, no. 2 (Summer 1973), pp. 81‐96. In 1944, it was retitled again, this time as ''Reynold's News and Sunday Citizen''. During the 1950s, it began to make a loss, and was relaunched in 1962 as a tabloid, the ''Sunday Citizen'', but the final issue was published on 18 June 1967.

Editors

:1850: George W. M. Reynolds :1879:

:1894: William Thompson :1907: Henry Dalziel :1920: John Crawley :1929: Sydney Elliott :1941: Bill Richardson In 1949, Terence Robertson joined the paper as News Editor. Robertson led a colourful private life and was involved in the fatal car crash that killed Vickie Martin, a protégée of Stephen Ward, in 1955. He later wrote several successful books before emigrating to Canada. He apparently committed suicide in 1970 while working on a book about the Bronfman family.

References

Sources

*David Butler and Jennie Freeman, ''British Political Facts, 1900-1967'', p. 281 {{Authority control 1850 establishments in the United Kingdom 1967 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Co-operative Party Newspapers established in 1850 Publications disestablished in 1967 Defunct Sunday newspapers published in the United Kingdom