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225,983 (as of May 2024) [ 2] OCLC number. 223228477. Website. www .mirror .co .uk. The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper. [ 3] Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply The Mirror.
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 in publications, which in turn led to an increase in regulation throughout the 18th century. [ 1] The Times began publication in 1785 and ...
On 25 March 2010, Independent News & Media sold the newspaper to a new company owned by the family of Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev for a nominal £1 fee and £9.25 million over the next 10 months, choosing this option over closing The Independent and The Independent on Sunday, which would have cost £28 million and £40 million ...
Page 3, or Page Three, is a British newspaper convention of publishing a large image of a topless female glamour model (known as a Page 3 girl) on the third page of mainstream red top tabloids. The Sun introduced the feature in November 1970, which boosted its readership and prompted competing tabloids—including The Daily Mirror, The Sunday ...
Daily Sketch. Daily Sketch front page on 9 June 1913 mentioning the death of Emily Davison. The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet. The Sketch was Conservative in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership.
newsoftheworld.co.uk. (inactive, no longer updated) The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. [ 4]
News and Journalism in the UK (Routledge, 2009). Marr, Andrew. My trade: a short history of British journalism (2004) Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp. 320–29; Morison, Stanley. The History of the Times: Volume 1: The "Thunderer" in the Making 1785-1841.
URL. www .britishnewspaperarchive .co .uk. Launched. November 2011; 12 years ago. ( 2011-11) Current status. Active. The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011.