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"William Hickey" is the pseudonymous byline of a gossip column published in the Daily Express, a British newspaper. It was named after the 18th-century diarist William Hickey. The column was first established by Tom Driberg in May 1933. [1] An existing gossip column was relaunched following the intervention of the Express's proprietor Lord ...
A 1902 item in London's Westminster Gazette noted, "The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals." Thus tabloid journalism in 1901, originally meant a paper that condensed stories into a simplified, easily absorbed format. The term preceded the 1918 reference to smaller sheet newspapers that contained ...
Tabloid journalism. Display rack of British newspapers during the midst of the News International phone hacking scandal (5 July 2011). Many of the newspapers in the rack are tabloids. Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also ...
A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially in a gossip magazine.Gossip columns are written in a light, informal style, and relate opinions about the personal lives or conduct of celebrities from show business (motion picture movie stars, theater, and television actors), politicians, professional sports stars, and other wealthy people or ...
Nigel Dempster (1941–2007), Daily Express, Daily Mail and Private Eye; Tom Driberg (1905–1976), Daily Express and Reynolds News; Tony Forrester (1953–), The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph; Jonathan Freedland (1967–), The Guardian, Jewish Chronicle, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard; A. A. Gill (1954–2016), The Sunday Times
Daily Star Sunday. Website. dailystar .co .uk. The Daily Star is a tabloid newspaper published from Monday to Saturday in the United Kingdom since 1978. In 2002, a sister Sunday edition, Daily Star Sunday was launched with a separate staff. In 2009, the Daily Star published its 10,000th issue. Jon Clark is the editor-in-chief of the paper.
This letterpress mode of newspaper production was supplanted in the 1970s and 1980s by the cleaner, more economical offset litho process. The history of British newspapers begins in the 17th century with the emergence of regular publications covering news and gossip. The relaxation of government censorship in the late 17th century led to a rise ...
Breakdown of UK daily newspaper circulation, 1956 to 2019. At the start of the 19th century, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom was the Morning Post, which sold around 4,000 copies per day, twice the sales of its nearest rival. As production methods improved, print runs increased and newspapers were sold at lower prices.