Daily Sketch

Daily Sketch
Type	Newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Editor	Various
Founded	1909
Political alignment	Populist, centre-right, Conservative Party
Ceased publication	1971

Daily Sketch

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]

Editors[]

1909:

1914:

1919: H. Lane

1922: H. Gates

1923: H. Lane

1928: A. Curthoys

1936: A. Sinclair

1939:

1942: Lionel Berry

1943: and M. Watts

1944:

1947: N. Hamilton

1948:

1953: Herbert Gunn

1959: Colin Valdar

1962: Howard French

1969: David English

1971: Louis Kirby (acting)

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. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
^ Press articles discussing The War Game on director Peter Watkin's Website, retrieved 2012-06-23.

External links[]

144 issues from 1915-1916 at The University of Pretoria

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[Griffiths-1] Dennis Griffiths (ed.). The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 187

[2] "11 May 1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes". BBC News. Retrieved 23 August 2013.

[3] Press articles discussing The War Game on director Peter Watkin's Website, retrieved 2012-06-23.

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