''The Daily News'' was a national daily

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in the United Kingdom published from 1846 to 1930. The ''News'' was founded in 1846 by

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and Social criticism, social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by ...

, who also served as the newspaper's first editor. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing '' Morning Chronicle''. 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
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, G. K. Chesterton and Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina 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 Edwin Pears and (later) Januarius MacGahan sounded the first alarm respecting the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria. In 1901, Quaker chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury bought ''The Daily News'' and used the paper to campaign for old age pensions and against sweatshop labour. As a pacifist, Cadbury opposed the Boer War, and the ''Daily News'' followed his line. In 1906, the ''News'' sponsored an exhibition on sweated labour at the Queen's Hall. This exhibition was credited with strengthening the

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movement. In 1909, H. N. Brailsford and H. W. Nevinson resigned from the paper when it refused to condemn the force feeding of suffragettes. Crawford, Elizabeth. (1999) ''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 '' The Westminster Gazette'', and in 1930, with the '' Daily Chronicle'' to form the centre-left '' News Chronicle''. The chairman from 1911 to 1930 was Edward Cadbury, eldest son of George Cadbury.

Editors

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: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 Le ...

:1869: Frank Harrison Hill :1886: Sir John Richard Robinson :1896: Edward Tyas Cook :1901: Rudolph Chambers Lehmann :1902: Alfred George Gardiner :1921: Stuart Hodgson :1926: Tom Clarke

References

External links

"London Daily News"
at the British Newspaper Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Daily News (Uk) 1846 establishments in England Charles Dickens Defunct newspapers published in the United Kingdom Publications disestablished in 1930 Newspapers established in 1846 1930 disestablishments in England