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The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. During a couple of periods in its history -- 1985 to 1987 and 1997 to 2002 -- it was known simply as The Mirror. Image File history File links Daily_Mirror_logo. ...
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Trinity Mirror is a large United Kingdom newspaper and magazine publisher. ...
Richard Wallace is the current editor of British newspaper the Daily Mirror. ...
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1 Canada Square building (centre) One Canada Square, a skyscraper in London, is the tallest building in the United Kingdom. ...
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The Daily Mirror was an afternoon paper in Sydney, Australia from 1941 until it merged with its morning sister paper The Daily Telegraph in 1990 to form The Daily Telegraph-Mirror, which in 1996 reverted to The Daily Telegraph, in the process removing the last vestige of the old Daily...
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Early years
The Daily Mirror was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. It was not a success, and in 1904 he decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper, firing the women journalists and appointing Hamilton Fyfe as editor. With its innovative use of photography and populist right-wing politics, the relaunched Mirror rapidly established itself with a circulation of more than 500,000. Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner. ...
When Northcliffe died in 1921, ownership of the Mirror passed to his brother Harold Harmsworth (Lord Rothermere). Circulation continued to grow: by 1930 the Mirror was selling more than 1 million copies a day and had the third-largest sale among Briitsh national newspapers, behind only the Daily Express (owned by Lord Beaverbrook) and the Daily Mail (also owned by Rothermere). Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ...
The Daily Express is a conservative, middle-market British tabloid newspaper. ...
Sir William Maxwell Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964) was a Canadian–British business tycoon and politician. ...
The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, currently a tabloid, first published in 1896. ...
Rothermere used the Mirror for his own political purposes just as he used the Mail. Both papers were an integral part of his joint campaign with Beaverbrook for "Empire Free Trade" in 1929-32, and the Mirror, like the Mail, gave enthusiastic support to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists in 1933-34 — support that Rothermere hastily withdrew after middle-class readers recoiled at the BUF's violence at a rally at Olympia. My Life, the autobiography of Oswald Mosley Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980), was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. ...
The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ...
By the mid-1930s, however, the Mirror was struggling — it and the Mail were the main casualties of the early-1930s circulation war that saw the Daily Herald and the Express establish circulations of more than 2 million — and Rothermere decided to sell his shares in it. His withdrawal paved the way for one of the most remarkable reworkings of a newspaper's identity ever seen.
The Mirror transformed With Cecil King (Rothermere's nephew) in charge of the paper's finances and Guy Bartholomew as editor, the Mirror in the late 1930s transformed itself from a gently declining, respectable, conservative, middle-class newspaper into a sensationalist left-wing paper for the working class that soon proved a runaway business success. The Mirror was the first UK paper to adopt the appearance of the New York tabloids and was noted for its consistent campaign in opposing the appeasement of Adolf Hitler. By 1939, it was selling 1.4 million copies a day. Hitler redirects here. ...
During the World War II, the Mirror positioned itself as the paper of the "ordinary" soldier and civilian, critical of the incompetence of the political leadership and the established parties. In the 1945 general election it strongly supported Labour in its eventual landslide victory. By the late 1940s, it was selling 4.5 million copies a day, outstripping the Express; for some 30 years afterwards it dominated the British daily newspaper market, selling at its peak in the mid-1960s more than 5 million copies each day. Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead...
"Open To The Public" One of the most 'open' publishers of tabloid newspapers, the Daily Mirror arranged regular tours of its printing presses at the Holborn Circus site in London, built on the site of the former Gamages department store. At the time it was one of the most technically advanced printing works in the world. Visitors were taken on tours of the entire production process and shown everything involved in producing a newspaper: the linotype machines where text was entered, the lead-melting plant where the curved leaden printing plates were cast before being attached to the cylindrical printing-press rollers, the huge reels of newsprint (paper), and the presses themselves. Shortly after the day's edition was complete the visitors could get a fresh copy of the paper literally 'hot off the press'.[citation needed] Gamages was a department store at 116-128 Holborn in Central London founded by Mr. ...
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Toppled by Murdoch The Mirror's mass working-class readership had made it the United Kingdom's best-selling daily tabloid newspaper. But it became complacent about its success. In 1960, it acquired the Daily Herald (the popular daily of the labour movement), when it bought Odhams, in one of a series of takeovers that created the International Publishing Corporation (IPC). The Mirror management did not want the Herald competing with the Mirror for readers and in 1964 relaunched it as a mid-market paper, the Sun. And when it failed to win readers, the Sun was sold to Rupert Murdoch -- who immediately relaunched it as a more populist and more sensationalist tabloid competitor to the Mirror. The Daily Herald was a London newspaper. ...
The Sun is a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at 3,154,881 copies daily in early 2006 [1], (compared to USA Today, the best-selling US newspaper...
Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG, (commonly known as Rupert Murdoch) (born 11 March 1931) is a businessman and media magnate, most known for being the owner of News Corporation. ...
Since then, the story of the Mirror has been one of continuous decline. By the mid-1970s, the Sun had overtaken the Mirror in circulation, and in 1984 the Mirror was sold to Robert Maxwell. After Maxwell's death in 1991, the Mirror went through a protracted crisis before ending up in the hands of Trinity Mirror, its current owner. In recent years the paper's circulation has also been overtaken by that of the Daily Mail. Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991), British media proprietor, rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing business. ...
Trinity Mirror is a large United Kingdom newspaper and magazine publisher. ...
The Mirror today Trinity Mirror is based at One Canada Square — the focal building in London's Canary Wharf development. Daily Mirror for November 4, 2004 This work is copyrighted. ...
Daily Mirror for November 4, 2004 This work is copyrighted. ...
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1 Canada Square building (centre) One Canada Square, a skyscraper in London, is the tallest building in the United Kingdom. ...
HSBC Tower (left), One Canada Square (centre), Citigroup Centre (right) Canary Wharf in Tower Hamlets, London, England, is a large business development on the Isle of Dogs, centred on the old West India Docks in the London Docklands. ...
In 1978, the paper announced its support for a United Ireland. A United Ireland is the common demand of Irish nationalists, envisaging that the island of Ireland (currently divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) be reunited as a single political entity. ...
During the 1990s, the paper was accused of dumbing-down in an unsuccessful attempt to poach readers from Murdoch's Sun, and was widely condemned in 1996 for publishing a headline "For you, Fritz, ze Euro 96 is over!" (regarding England's match versus Germany in the 1996 Eurocup) complete with mocked-up photos of Paul Gascoigne and Stuart Pearce wearing tin helmets. See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ...
Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG, (commonly known as Rupert Murdoch) (born 11 March 1931) is a businessman and media magnate, most known for being the owner of News Corporation. ...
The Sun is a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at 3,154,881 copies daily in early 2006 [1], (compared to USA Today, the best-selling US newspaper...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
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Paul John Gascoigne, often referred to by his nickname Gazza (born 27 May 1967 in Gateshead, County Durham), is a former English football player, notorious for his colourful character in the game. ...
Stuart Pearce MBE (born April 24, 1962 in Hammersmith, London) is an English football coach, and manager of Manchester City, having been appointed as permanent manager after a period as caretaker following the retirement of Kevin Keegan. ...
In 2002, the Mirror changed its logo from red to black in an attempt to dissociate the paper from the term "red top", a term for a sensationalist mass-market tabloid. Sometimes it was blue. On 6 April 2005, the red top came back. April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Under then-editor Piers Morgan, it was the only tabloid newspaper in the UK to oppose the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ran many front pages critical of the war. It also gave financial support to the February 15, 2003 anti-war protest, paying for a large screen and providing thousands of placards. Piers appearing on Have I Got News For You Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born March 30, 1965 in Newick, East Sussex) was editor of The Daily Mirror, a British tabloid newspaper, from 1995 until his sacking in 2004. ...
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February 15, 2003 was a global day of protests against the imminent invasion of Iraq. ...
The tabloid gained notoriety in the United States after the re-election of George W. Bush for a second term as President, with its cover November 4, 2004 cover. It trumpeted, "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?". The cover became a favourite of anti-Bush websites. [citation needed] George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American businessman and politician, was elected in 2000 as the 43rd President of the United States of America, re-elected in 2004, and is currently serving his second term in that office. ...
In April 2006 the paper broke the story of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's affair with his secretary. A Deputy Prime Minister is the deputy of a Prime Minister, and a member of a nations cabinet. ...
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The current editor is Richard Wallace. Richard Wallace is the current editor of British newspaper the Daily Mirror. ...
Famous Mirror features - The "Old Codgers" letters page.
- Chalky White, who would wander around various British seaside resorts waiting to be recognised by Mirror readers (an obscured photo of him having been published in that day's paper). Anyone who recognised him would have to repeat some phrase along the lines of "To my delight, it's Chalky White" to win £5.
- "Shock issues" intended to highlight a particular news story.
- Marjorie Proops' problem page "Dear Marje".
- The Shopping Basket -- starting in the mid 1970s, the paper monitored the cost of a £5 basket of shopping to see how it increased in price over the years. By 1979 it had doubled in price, highlighting the high inflation of those years and, ironically, helping to undermine the Labour government that the paper supported.
- On the 2nd April 1996, The Daily Mirror actually became 'Blue' .. and was printed entirely on blue paper, this was done as a marketing exercise with Pepsi-cola, whom on the same day had decided to relaunch thier cans from the old red and white logo, to all over blue cans .. This was explained on the front page by an article which headlined 'Your (Daily Mirror Logo) turns BLUE. And went on to report .. "Your Daily Mirror, like Pepsi, is always full of fizz. But today we have something else in common, too. We have both turned blue. For the Mirror, it is just for one day. For Pepsi, it is forever. From today, its cans are going blue." and then went on to report the huge campaign that Pepsi had launched to introduce its blue cans
Andy Capp is a long-running comic strip character created by Reginald Smythe, seen in the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror newspapers since August 5, 1957. ...
The Perishers is a British comic strip about a group of urban children and a dog. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Maurice Dodd (1922 - December 31, 2005) was a writer and cartoonist most notable for his years spent working on The Perishers comic strip published in Dodd was born in Hackney, and during World War II served in the Royal Air Force as a Servicing Commando, alongside Bill Herbert. ...
You are X and I claim my five pounds (commonly abbreviated to YA X AICMFP, or YA X AICM£5) is a British stock phrase commonly used in online discussion forums such as Usenet. ...
Sir William Neil Connor (26 April 1909 - 6 April 1967), was a left-wing journalist for The Daily Mirror who wrote under the pseudonym of Cassandra. ...
Paul Foot addressing a miners rally, June 1984 Paul Mackintosh Foot (November 8, 1937 – July 18, 2004) was a British radical investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ...
John Pilger John Pilger (born October 9, 1939) is an Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker from Sydney, primarily based in London, UK. // Life and career Pilgers career in journalism began in 1958, and he has developed his reputation through both his reporting and the various books and documentary films...
Flag of the Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (Khmer: ) was the extremist-Maoist organization that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
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Fake abuse photos
 Front page of The Daily Mirror after publishing faked photographs. In May 2004, the Daily Mirror published what it claimed were photos of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. The decision to publish the photos, which were subsequently shown to be hoaxes, led to the sacking of Morgan on 14 May 2004. The Daily Mirror then stated that it was the subject of a "calculated and malicious hoax" [1]. The newspaper issued a statement apologizing for the printing of the pictures and immediately accepted the resignation of editor Piers Morgan. The paper's deputy editor, Des Kelly, took over as acting editor during the crisis. The tabloid's rival, The Sun, offered a £50,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those accused of faking the Mirror photographs. Image File history File links The_Daily_Mirror_-_Sorry_We_Were_Hoaxed. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Satar Jabar standing on a box with wires connected to his body Prisoners Ordered to Form Human Pyramid Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse images Beginning in 2003, numerous accounts of abuse and torture of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also known...
Map of Iraq highlighting Abu Ghraib Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse images The Abu Ghraib prison (Arabic: سجن أبو غريب; also Abu Ghurayb) is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km (20 mi) west of Baghdad. ...
May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Piers appearing on Have I Got News For You Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born March 30, 1965 in Newick, East Sussex) was editor of The Daily Mirror, a British tabloid newspaper, from 1995 until his sacking in 2004. ...
Desmond Kelly is the well known Ceylonese musician who has entertained generations of music lovers in Sri Lanka and in Australia. ...
The Sun is a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at 3,154,881 copies daily in early 2006 [1], (compared to USA Today, the best-selling US newspaper...
There is a belief that the Mirror accepted the photos without any detailed background checks of their origin because of the paper's opposition to the Iraq War and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Military experts who looked at the photos were instantly able to point out discrepancies. However, in his autobiography The Insider, based on diary entries from the time, Piers Morgan wrote that the decision to publish the photos was a difficult one and extensive consultation was made, not least with his brother, Jeremy, who was in Basra at the time. For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ...
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: , [1]; born April 28, 1937[2]), was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003, when he was deposed in the United States-led invasion of Iraq. ...
The Sunday Mirror The Sunday Mirror is basically the same newspaper published on Sunday. It began life in 1915 as The Sunday Pictoral and changed to become the Sunday Mirror in 1963. Trinity Mirror also owns The People (once Sunday People). Many commentators have said that the company's ownership of two red-top Sunday papers chasing a similar market is odd, especially as they fight each other for readers as well as the News of the World.
The Sunday Mirror's current editor is Tina Weaver.
References in popular culture A sketch in a 1969 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus parodied the Mirror's letters pages: 'Dear Mirrorview, I would like to be paid five guineas for saying something stupid about a television programme.' 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
Monty Pythons Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus, MPFC or just Monty Python during the fourth season) was a popular, surreal BBC sketch comedy show from Monty Python, and the groups initial claim to fame. ...
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, The Delta Mirror is a newspaper intended to be read by the "Delta" caste, the fourth mout of five intelligence castes. Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (pronounced ) (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer who immigrated to the United States. ...
Original book cover of Brave New World. ...
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See also The 3AM Girls are the gossip columnists for the British tabloid The Daily Mirror. ...
The Daily Mirror investigators who expose rogues in the Thursday edition of the paper. ...
References - Morgan, Piers. "Daily Mirror statement in full", CNN World. May 13, 2004. Retrieved November 28, 2005.
- "Fake abuse photos: Editor quits", CNN London. May 15, 2004. Retrieved November 27, 2005.
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