The ''Daily Sketch'' was a British national tabloid

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, founded in

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in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet. The ''Sketch'' was

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in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership.

History

In 1920, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers bought the ''Daily Sketch''. In 1925 Rothermere sold it to

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and Gomer Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley). In 1926 it absorbed the '' Daily Graphic''. It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' Allied Newspapers from 1928 (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on ''

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''). From this point forward, its sister newspaper was the '' Sunday Graphic''. In 1946, twenty years after it had taken over the ''Daily Graphic'', the latter name was revived and the ''Daily Sketch'' name disappeared for a while. In 1952, Kemsley decided to sell the paper to Associated Newspapers, the owner of the '' Daily Mail'', which promptly revived the ''Daily Sketch'' name in 1953. In 1954, an infamous cartoon, titled "Family Portrait?", was published in the paper, which mocked Billy Strachan, a black British civil rights leader, for his anti-colonial and anti-imperialist beliefs. The cartoon depicted him with devil horns representing the Caribbean Labour Congress. His image was posed with images of Hewlett Johnson and Paul Robeson, all of whom stood underneath a portrait of the then recently deceased

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dictator

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. The paper participated in the 1965 press campaign against the screening of the

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film '' The War Game''. The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the ''

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'', and on Tuesday, 11 May 1971, it closed and merged with the ''Daily Mail'', which had just switched to tabloid format.

Editors

:1909: Jimmy Heddle :1914: William Sugden Robinson :1919: H. Lane :1922: H. Gates :1923: H. Lane :1926: Ivor Halstead Rachael Low, ''History of British Film'', Vol. 4 (2013)
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/ref> :1928: A. Curthoys :1936: A. Sinclair :1939: Sydney Carroll :1942: Lionel Berry :1943: A. Roland Thornton and M. Watts :1944: A. Roland Thornton :1947: N. Hamilton :1948: Henry Clapp :1953: Herbert Gunn :1959: Colin Valdar :1962: Howard French :1969: David English :1971: Louis Kirby (acting)

References

External links

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