Daily Sketch
Type | Newspaper |
---|---|
Format | Tabloid |
Editor | Various |
Founded | 1909 |
Political alignment | Populist, centre-right, Conservative Party |
Ceased publication | 1971 |
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The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.
It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers, but in 1925 Rothermere sold it to William and Gomer Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley).
It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' Allied Newspapers from 1928[1] (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on The Daily Telegraph). In 1946, it was merged with the Daily Graphic.[1] In 1952, Kemsley decided to sell the paper to Associated Newspapers, the owner of the Daily Mail, who promptly revived the Daily Sketch name in 1953. The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the Daily Mirror, and in 1971 it was closed and merged with the Daily Mail.[2]
The Sketch was Conservative in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership. In some ways, much of the more populist element of today's Daily Mail was inherited from the Sketch: before the merger, the more serious Mail, previously a broadsheet, was also right-wing. The Sketch notably launched a moral panic over Daniel Farson's 1960 television documentary Living for Kicks, a portrait of British teenage life at the time, which led to a war of words between the Sketch and the Daily Mirror. It also participated in the press campaign against the screening of the BBC film The War Game.[3]
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Editors
- 1909: Jimmy Heddle
- 1914: William Sugden Robinson
- 1919: H. Lane
- 1922: H. Gates
- 1923: H. Lane
- 1926: Ivor Halstead[4]
- 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)
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Source: "Daily Sketch", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 13th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Sketch.
Further Reading

Daily Mail

Daily Mirror

Viscount Kemsley

Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose

The Printworks (Manchester)

Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley

The Evening News (London newspaper)

Bristol Post
Edward Hulton

Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland

The Daily Telegraph

Edward Hulton (senior)
References
- ^ a b Dennis Griffiths (ed.). The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 187
- ^ "11 May 1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes". BBC News. 11 May 1971. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- ^ Press articles discussing The War Game on director Peter Watkin's Website, retrieved 2012-06-23.
- ^ Rachael Low, History of British Film, Vol. 4 (2013), p. 196
External links
- 144 issues from 1915-1916 at The University of Pretoria
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