''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 George William MacArthur Reynolds (23 July 1814 – 19 June 1879) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British fiction writer and journalist. Reynolds was born in Sandwich, Kent, the son of Captain Sir George Reynolds, a flag offi ...

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,

Edward Reynolds Edward Reynolds (November 1599 – 28 July 1676) was a bishop of Norwich in the Church of England and an author.Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Prepared by the Rev. John M'Clintock, D.D., and James Strong, S ...

.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

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and, in 1924, was retitled ''Reynold's Illustrated News''. In 1929, the paper was acquired by the

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, linked to the

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, and, in 1936, its title was shortened to ''Reynold's News''. After the left-wing journalist

H. N. Brailsford Henry Noel Brailsford (25 December 1873 – 23 March 1958) was the most prolific British left-wing journalist of the first half of the 20th century. A founding member of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in 1907, he resigned from his job a ...

wrote a series of articles in ''Reynold's News'' critical of the

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, 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

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:1894: William Thompson :1907:

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Sydney Elliott Sydney Robert Elliott (31 August 1902 – 9 October 1987) was a British newspaper editor. Biography Born on Clydeside, Scotland, Elliott became involved in the co-operative movement. In the late 1920s, he moved to Manchester to become editor ...

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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 Publications established in 1850 Publications disestablished in 1967 Defunct Sunday newspapers published in the United Kingdom