''The Daily News'' was a national daily

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in the United Kingdom. The ''News'' was founded in 1846 by

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, who also served as the newspaper's first

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. It was conceived as a

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rival to the right-wing ''

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''. The paper was not at first a commercial success. Dickens edited 17 issues before handing over the editorship to his friend John Forster, who had more experience in journalism than Dickens. Forster ran the paper until 1870.''London Daily News: General Description'', Rossetti Archive.Undated
Accessed: 2007-09-14.

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G. K. Chesterton and

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were among the leading reformist writers who wrote for the paper during its heyday. In 1870, the ''News'' absorbed the '' Morning Star''. In 1876, ''The Daily News'' and its correspondents

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and (later)

Januarius MacGahan Januarius Aloysius MacGahan əˈɡæn(June 12, 1844 – June 9, 1878) was an American journalist and war correspondent working for the ''New York Herald'' and the London ''The Daily News (UK), Daily News''. His articles describing the massac ...

sounded the first alarm respecting the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria. In 1901,

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chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury bought ''The Daily News'' and used the paper to campaign for old age pensions and against

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labour. As a pacifist, Cadbury opposed the

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, and the ''Daily News'' followed his line. In 1906, the ''News'' sponsored an exhibition on sweated labour at the

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. This exhibition was credited with strengthening the

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movement. In 1909,

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and

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resigned from the paper when it refused to condemn the

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s.Elizabeth Crawford, ''The Women's Suffrage Movement'', p.453. In 1912, the ''News'' merged with the ''Morning Leader'', and was for a time known as the ''Daily News and Leader''. In 1928, it merged with ''

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'', and in 1930, with 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 ...

'' to form the centre-left ''

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''. The chairman from 1911 to 1930 was

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, eldest son of George Cadbury.

Editors

Source: :1846:

:1846: John Forster :1847: Eyre Evans Crowe :1851: Frederick Knight Hunt :1854: William Weir :1858: Thomas Walker :1869:

Edward Dicey Edward James Stephen Dicey, CB (15 May 18327 July 1911) was an English writer, journalist, and editor. Life He was born on 15 May 1832 at Claybrook, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire. He was the second son of Thomas Edward Dicey, of an old Lei ...

:1869: Frank Harrison Hill :1886: John Robinson :1896:

Edward Tyas Cook Sir Edward Tyas Cook (12 May 1857 – 30 September 1919) was an English journalist, biographer, and man of letters. Biography Born in Brighton, Cook was the youngest son of Silas Kemball Cook, secretary of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, ...

:1901: Rudolph Chambers Lehmann :1902:

Alfred George Gardiner Alfred George Gardiner (2 June 1865 – 3 March 1946) was an English journalist, editor and author. His essays, written under the alias "Alpha of the Plough", are highly regarded. He was also Chairman of the National Anti-Sweating League, an ad ...

:1921: Stuart Hodgson :1926: Tom Clarke

References

External links

"London Daily News"
at the British Newspaper Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Daily News (Uk) 1846 establishments in the United Kingdom Charles Dickens Defunct newspapers published in the United Kingdom Publications disestablished in 1931 Publications established in 1846