Daily Sketch
 Daily Sketchfront page on 9 June 1913 mentioning the death ofEmily 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 |
| Founded | 1909inManchester |
| Political alignment | Populist,centre-right,Conservative Party |
| Ceased publication | May 11, 1971;merged into theDaily Mail |
| Sister newspapers | Sunday Graphic(1928–1960) |
TheDaily Sketchwas a British nationaltabloidnewspaper,founded inManchesterin 1909 by SirEdward Hulton,1st Baronet.
TheSketchwasConservativein its politics andpopulistin its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership.
History
[edit]In 1920,Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers bought theDaily Sketch.In 1925 Rothermere sold it toWilliamandGomerBerry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley). In 1926 it absorbed theDaily Graphic.[1]
It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys'Allied Newspapersfrom 1928[2](renamedKemsley Newspapersin 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts onThe Daily Telegraph). From this point forward, its sister newspaper was theSunday Graphic.
In 1946, twenty years after it had taken over theDaily Graphic,the latter name was revived[3]and theDaily Sketchname disappeared for a while.
In 1952, Kemsley decided to sell the paper toAssociated Newspapers,the owner of theDaily Mail,[4]which promptly revived theDaily Sketchname in 1953.[5]
In 1954, an infamous cartoon, titled "Family Portrait?", was published in the paper, which mockedBilly Strachan,a black British civil rights leader, for hisanti-colonialandanti-imperialistbeliefs.[6]The cartoon depicted him with devil horns representing the Caribbean Labour Congress. His image was posed with images ofHewlett JohnsonandPaul Robeson,all of whom stood underneath a portrait of the then recently deceasedSovietdictatorJoseph Stalin.[6]
The paper participated in the 1965 press campaign against the screening of theBBCfilmThe War Game.[7]
The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with theDaily Mirror,and on Tuesday, 11 May 1971, it closed and merged with theDaily Mail,which had just switched to tabloid format.[8]
Editors
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- 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 Thorntonand 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
[edit]- ^"Amalgamation of 'Daily Graphic' and 'Daily Sketch'".The Times.16 October 1926. p. 4.
- ^Griffiths, Dennis,ed. (1992).The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992.London and Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 187.
- ^"A Graphic Sketch".Daily Mirror.2 July 1946. p. 2.
- ^"The Press: Bigger Press Lord".Time.22 December 1952.
- ^"Our London Correspondence".Manchester Guardian.2 January 1953. p. 4.
- ^abHorsley, 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.ISSN2055-7035.
- ^"The War Game".Peter Watkins.Retrieved23 June2012.
- ^"Britain's oldest tabloid closes".BBC News.11 May 1971.Retrieved23 August2013.
- ^Rachael Low,History of British Film,Vol. 4 (2013),p. 196
External links
[edit]- 144 issues from 1915-1916at The University of Pretoria
