Daily Sketch

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Daily Sketch
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Daily Sketch front page on 9 June 1913 mentioning the death of Emily Davison.
Type Newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Edward Hulton (1909–1920)
Daily Mirror Newspapers (1920–1925)
Allied Newspapers/Kemsley Newspapers (1925-1952)
Associated Newspapers (1952–1971)
Founder(s) Edward Hulton
Founded1909;115 years ago (1909) in Manchester
Political alignment Populist, centre-right, Conservative Party
Ceased publicationMay 11, 1971;53 years ago (1971-05-11); merged into the Daily Mail
Sister newspapers Sunday Graphic (1928–1960)

The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet.

Contents

The Sketch was Conservative 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 William and Gomer Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley). In 1926 it absorbed the Daily Graphic . [1]

It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' Allied Newspapers from 1928 [2] (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on The Daily Telegraph ). 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 [3] 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 , [4] which promptly revived the Daily Sketch name in 1953. [5]

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. [6] 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 Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. [6]

The paper participated in the 1965 press campaign against the screening of the BBC film The War Game . [7]

The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the Daily Mirror , and on Tuesday, 11 May 1971, it closed and merged with the Daily Mail, which had just switched to tabloid format. [8]

Editors

1909: Jimmy Heddle
1914: William Sugden Robinson
1919: H. Lane
1922: H. Gates
1923: H. Lane
1926: Ivor Halstead [9]
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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References

  1. "Amalgamation of 'Daily Graphic' and 'Daily Sketch'". The Times . 16 October 1926. p. 4.
  2. Griffiths, Dennis, ed. (1992). The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 187.
  3. "A Graphic Sketch". Daily Mirror . 2 July 1946. p. 2.
  4. "The Press: Bigger Press Lord". Time . 22 December 1952.
  5. "Our London Correspondence". Manchester Guardian . 2 January 1953. p. 4.
  6. 1 2 Horsley, David (2019). Billy Strachan 1921–1988 RAF Officer, Communist, Civil Rights Pioneer, Legal Administrator, Internationalist and Above All Caribbean Man. London: Caribbean Labour Solidarity. p. 23. ISSN   2055-7035.
  7. "The War Game". Peter Watkins . Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  8. "Britain's oldest tabloid closes". BBC News. 11 May 1971. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  9. Rachael Low, History of British Film, Vol. 4 (2013), p. 196