''Reynold's News'' was a Sunday
newspaper
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in the
United Kingdom
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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,
Edward Reynolds.
[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
Co-operative Press, linked to the
Co-operative Party
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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:
Edward Reynolds
:1894:
William Thompson
:1907:
Henry Dalziel
:1920: John Crawley
:1929:
Sydney Elliott
:1941:
Bill Richardson
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References
Sources
*David Butler and Jennie Freeman, ''British Political Facts, 1900-1967'', p. 281
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