The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news website[5][6] published in London. [96] English transformed it from a struggling newspaper selling half as many copies as its mid-market rival, the Daily Express, to a formidable publication, whose circulation rose to surpass that of the Express by the mid-1980s. If you wish to contact MailOnline, Daily Mail or The Mail on Sunday, please choose the appropriate tab below. [266], In 2022, the newspaper was fooled into publishing a fake comment supporting sewage dumping on beaches as a benefit of Brexit from a parody Twitter account claiming to be "Sir Michael Take CBE", former MP for "Dorset East",[267] neither of which actually exist. [231], After High Court judges ruled in 2016 that parliamentary approval must be sought for activation of Article 50, the leading headline on the Mail's front page read "Enemies of the People". Fifteen hundred members of the London Stock Exchange burned unsold copies and called for a boycott of the Harmsworth Press. [45], Light-hearted stunts enlivened Northcliffe, such as the 'Hat campaign' in the winter of 1920. [82] During his visit, Rothermere was publicly thanked in a speech by Josef Goebbels for the Daily Mails pro-German coverage of the Saarland referendum, under which the people of the Saarland had the choices of voting to remain under the rule of the League of Nations, join France, or rejoin Germany. [150][151] Major advertisers, such as Marks & Spencer, had their adverts removed from the Mail Online webpage containing Moir's article.[152]. [156] The study was used in articles by CBS News,[157] Le Figaro,[158] and Bild[159] among others. [70] The talks were drawn out largely because Mosley understood that Rothermere was a megalomaniac who wanted to use the New Party for his own purposes as he sought to impose terms and conditions in exchange for the support of the Daily Mail. Ad selection, delivery, reporting. It was an immediate success. . [237] Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Labour Party, tweeted "It's 2017. [12] Between April 2019 and March 2020 it had an average daily readership of approximately 2.18 million, of whom approximately 1.41 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 0.77 million in the C2DE demographic. '"[89], During the Danzig crisis, the Daily Mail was inadvertently used by the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to persuade Hitler that Britain would not go to war for the defense of Poland. [88] The British historian Daniel Stone called Ward Price's reporting from Berlin and Rome "a mixture of snobbery, name dropping and obsequious pro-fascism of a most genteel 'English' type". [66][67] Lord Rothermere took an extreme anti-Communist line, which led him to own an estate in Hungary to which he might escape to in case Britain was conquered by the Soviet Union. Please contact the editorial team for any issues with our content If you notice a factual inaccuracy in the Daily Express, Sunday Express and Express.co.uk that does not directly relate to. [178] Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK, criticised the Daily Mail's cartoon for being "reckless xenophobia". He will be replaced by Ted Verity, the current editor of the Mail on Sunday, who will have overall . In 1906 the paper offered 10,000 for the first flight from London to Manchester, followed by a 1,000 prize for the first flight across the English Channel. [14], The Daily Mail has won several awards, including receiving the National Newspaper of the Year award from The Press Awards eight times since 1995, winning again in 2019. Scoop! [73] Rothermere had decided that aerial war was the technology of the future, and throughout the 1930s The Daily Mail was described as "obsessional" in pressing for more spending on the RAF. DailyMail.com publishes content produced by its own editorial team as well as content from the Daily Mail newspaper and The Mail on Sunday newspaper. [145][146], Two men who the Mail had featured in their "Murderers" headline were found guilty in 2012 of murdering Lawrence. [65], Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail's editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s. 1 goal is to promote and edit Daily Mail editorial content on established and emerging social . Information storage and access. accused the Mail of unnecessarily highlighting the judge's sexual orientation due to anti-gay motives. "[163], In September 2013, the Mail was criticised for an article on Ralph Miliband (father of then Labour-leader Ed Miliband and prominent Marxist sociologist), titled "The Man Who Hated Britain". Lord Salisbury, 19th-century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dismissed the Daily Mail as "a newspaper produced by office boys for office boys. The Mail later removed the description. The journalist, Andrew Malone, subsequently deleted his Twitter account. [275][276] It has since then become the most visited newspaper website in the world,[277] with over 189.5million visitors per month, and 11.7million visitors daily, as of January 2014. [278], Thailand's military junta blocked the MailOnline in May 2014 after the site revealed a video of Thailand's Crown Prince and his wife, Princess Srirasmi, partying. [32]:32 The paper was critical of Asquith's conduct of the war, and he resigned on 5 December 1916. In 1983 the paper won a special British Press Award for a "relentless campaign against the malignant practices of the Unification Church. Photograph: Reuters Under Paul Dacre's 25-year reign, the paper has become the UK's most fanatical anti-liberal voice. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor, Ted Verity, who succeeded Geordie Greig on 17 November 2021. "[238][237] The International Business Times quoted an unnamed Daily Mail staff member describing the headline as "moronic", and out of touch with the Daily Mail's largely female readership. For a time in the early 20th century, the paper championed vigorously against the "Yellow Peril", warning of the alleged dangers said to be posted by Chinese immigration to the United Kingdom. [175] In November 2016, Lawyers for Gawker filed a motion to resolve the lawsuit. [83] In his leader, Rothermere argued that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh towards the Reich and claimed that the German economy was being crippled by the loss of the German colonial empire in Africa as he argued that without African colonies to exploit that the German economic recovery from the Great Depression was fragile and shallow. [160] Dorothy Bishop, professor of neuroscience at Oxford University, in her blog awarded the Daily Mail the "Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation",[161][162] The Mail later changed the article's headline to: "Just ONE cannabis joint 'can cause psychiatric episodes similar to schizophrenia' as well as damaging memory. The Daily Mail officially entered the Irish market with the launch of a local version of the paper on 6 February 2006; free copies of the paper were distributed on that day in some locations to publicise the launch. [117], The newspaper entered India on 16 November 2007 with the launch of Mail Today,[118] a 48-page compact size newspaper printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida with a print run of 110,000 copies. [40] In common with other Conservative papers, the Daily Mail used the Anglo-German naval race as a way of criticising the Liberal governments that were in power from 1906 onward, claiming that the Liberals were too pusillanimous in their response to the Tirpitz plan. His physical and mental health declined rapidly in 1921, and he died in August 1922 at age 57. . In 2002, McKinnon was accused of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time"[189] although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. [70] The paper's support ended after violence at a BUF rally in Kensington Olympia in June 1934. In early 1930 the two Lords launched the United Empire Party, which the Daily Mail supported enthusiastically. When Lord Rothermere tells his clientele to go and join the Fascists some of them pretty certainly will. [75] Rothermere wrote an article titled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" published in the Daily Mail on 15 January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine",[76] and pointing out that: "Young men may join the British Union of Fascists by writing to the Headquarters, King's Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. [100] Dacre retired as editor of the Daily Mail but remains editor-in-chief of the group. Bingham, Adrian, and Martin Conboy (2015). [85] Touchy called these young women "Red Carmens", associating them with the destructive heroine of the opera Carmen and with Communism, writing the "Red Carmens" proved the amorality of the Spanish Republic, which had preached gender equality. These include Evelyn Waugh's 1938 novel Scoop which was based on Waugh's experiences as a writer for the Daily Mail. A deputy editor is a newspaper editor who is in charge of a specific area of the paper, such as the . But when a son with prime ministerial ambitions swallows his father's teachings, as the younger Miliband appears to have done, the case is different. The Irish version includes stories of Irish interest alongside content from the UK version. [90][91] The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that the newspapers that Ribbentrop used to provide his press summaries for Hitler such as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, were out of touch not only with British public opinion, but also with British government policy in regards to the Danzig crisis. The Mail was also a frequent sponsor on continental commercial radio stations targeted towards Britain throughout the 1920s and 1930s and periodically voiced support for the legalisation of private radio, something that would not happen until 1973. [138], In 1981, the Daily Mail ran an investigation into the Unification Church, nicknamed the Moonies, accusing them of ending marriages and brainwashing converts. [86] The British historian Caroline Brothers wrote that Touchy's article said much about the gender politics of The Daily Mail, which ran his photo-essay and presumably of The Daily Mail's readers who were expected to approve of the article. And that's why Wikipedia decided not to accept them as a source anymore. [63], One of the major themes of The Daily Mail was the opposition to the Indian independence movement and much of Rothermere's opposition to Baldwin was based upon the belief that Baldwin was not sufficiently opposed to Indian independence. [62] Rothemere argued that it was unjust that the "noble" Hungarians should be under the rule of "cruder and more barbaric races", by which he meant the peoples of Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. [32]:33, In the Chanak Crisis of 1922, Britain almost went to war with Turkey. Top Floor, Two Haddington Buildings. 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Under the terms of the motion, Gawker was not required to pay any financial compensation, but agreed to add an Editor's Note at the beginning of the King article, remove an illustration in the post which incorporated the Daily Mail's logo, and publish a statement by DailyMail.com in the same story. [74], Rothermere and the Mail were also editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. [120] In 2016, it was the first newspaper to break the controversial story about terror slogans being raised in favour of the hanged terrorist Afzal Guru on his death anniversary at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. [240], In 2017 evoke.ie, the Daily Mail's showbiz site, was reported to the internship program of Dublin City University after the bylines of hundreds of articles written by students were changed. [142], The Mail campaigned vigorously for justice over the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. When using unnamed sources, the company relies on the integrity, experience and professionalism of its staff. [97] English was knighted in 1982. [69] Starting in December 1931, Rothermere opened up talks with Oswald Mosley under which terms the Daily Mail would support his party. Scoops American Dirt. [53] In 1923, the newspaper supported the Italian occupation of Corfu and condemned the British government for at least rhetorically opposing the Italian attack on Greece. Printing of the Scottish Daily Mail was switched from Edinburgh to the Deansgate plant in Manchester in 1968 and, for a while, The People was also printed on the Mail presses in Deansgate. [50] As Lord Northcliffe aged, his grip on the paper slackened and there were periods when he was not involved. [11] It had an average daily circulation of 1.13 million copies in February 2020. The paper subsequently promoted the wearing of it but without much success. Before the outbreak of the First World War, the paper was accused of warmongering when it reported that Germany was planning to crush the British Empire. ", "Daily Mail deal with Communist mouthpiece raises few eyebrows in China", "Mail Online teams up with Chinese newspaper the People's Daily", "What is Mail Online doing in partnership with the People's Daily of China? Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's highest-circulated daily newspaper. The, This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 17:55. DailyMail.com publishes content produced by its own editorial team as well as content from the Daily Mail newspaper and The Mail on Sunday newspaper. He had been editor of the Daily Sketch from 1969 to 1971, when it closed. [92], On 5 May 1946, the Daily Mail celebrated its Golden Jubilee. Ballsbridge, Dublin. Geordie Greig is stepping down as editor of the Daily Mail after three years in the role. Read their incredible story below. [citation needed], The paper is generally critical of the BBC, which it says is biased to the left. His brother Lord Rothermere took full control of the paper. There were 40,000 entries and the winner was a cross between a top hat and a bowler christened the Daily Mail Sandringham Hat. Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in London headed by Herbert von Dirksen provide translations from pro-appeasement newspapers like the Daily Mail and the Daily Express for Hitler's benefit, which had the effect of making it seem that British public opinion was more strongly against going to war for Poland than was actually the case. [51] Britain was governed by a Liberal-Conservative coalition, and the opposition of the Daily Mail, which normally supported the Conservatives, caused many Tories to reconsider continuing the coalition government of Lloyd George. Content selection, delivery, reporting. In late 2013, the paper moved its London printing operation from the city's Docklands area to a new 50million plant in Thurrock, Essex. The Daily Mail quietly removed the article from their website. | October 10, 2022 On 13 June 2011, a study by Dr Matt Jones and Michal Kucewicz[153] on the effects of cannabinoid receptor activation in the brain was published in The Journal of Neuroscience[153][154][155] and the British medical journal The Lancet. Want to report a technical problem with MailOnline? It may Contribute Though! [84] Touchy took a series of photographs of Spanish women who joined the Worker's Militia marching up to the front with rifles and ammunition poaches over their shoulders. "[260] In 2018, the Wikipedia community upheld the Daily Mail's deprecation as a source. If you are looking for an editorial . It has endorsed the party in every UK general election since 1945, with the one exception of the October 1974 UK general election, where it endorsed a Liberal and Conservative coalition. If you wish to contact DailyMail.com,. [88] In the 1938 crisis over the Sudetenland, The Daily Mail was very hostile in its picture of President Edvard Bene, whom Rothermere noted disapprovingly in a leader in July 1938 had signed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1935, leading him to accuse Bene of turning "Czechoslovakia into a corridor for Russia against Germany". However, the project failed as the equipment was not able to provide a decent signal from overboard, and the transmitter was replaced by a set of speakers. In 1930, Rothermere wrote a series of leaders under the title "If We Lose India! [182] A Daily Mail spokesperson told The Independent: "We are not going to dignify these absurd comments which wilfully misrepresent this cartoon apart from to say that we have not received a single complaint from any reader". He spent 11 years at the Daily Mail, spending stints as a general reporter and in the Femail department before becoming News Editor. The Daily Mail began to support McKinnon's campaign in 2009 with a series of front-page stories protesting against his deportation. [51] Ward Price wrote in his articles that Mustafa Kemal did not have wider ambitions to restore the lost frontiers of the Ottoman empire and only wanted the Allies to leave Asia Minor. [93] Newsprint rationing in the Second World War had forced the Daily Mail to cut its size to four pages, but the size gradually increased through the 1950s. Corrections Policy If you believe a story we have published is inaccurate, please. [104] In November 2016, Lego ended a series of promotions in the paper which had run for years, following a campaign from the group 'Stop Funding Hate', who were unhappy with the Mail's coverage of migrant issues and the EU referendum. It was published six days after his death and before his funeral. [58] Far from seeing giving women the right to vote as the disaster Rothermere believed that it was, Baldwin set out to appeal to female voters, a tactic that was politically successful, but led Rothermere to accuse Baldwing of "feminising" the Conservative Party. After making a copy on a USB flash drive, the police ordered a technician from the CCTV company that installed the system to encrypt the footage, saying 'this now falls under the confidentiality of the investigation, it must remain here'. [49] The Mail maintained the event until selling it to Media 10 in 2009. Vice Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor fought the first by-election for the United Empire Party in October, defeating the official Conservative candidate by 941 votes. [47], In 1919, Alcock and Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic, winning a prize of 10,000 from the Daily Mail. [250], Carbon Brief complained to the Press Complaints Commission about an article published in the Daily Mail titled "Hidden green tax in fuel bills: How a 200 stealth charge is slipped on to your gas and electricity bills" because the 200 figure was unexplained, unreferenced and, according to Ofgem, incorrect. [25] It can still be used in reference to an article about the Daily Mail itself. [232] The paper's front page and other coverage drew much criticism from the legal world, as well as from high-ranking politicians. oversee a team of social media editors who curate and edit our stories for social media . Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor.[8]. The story related to a judge's decision to award money to Abd Ali Hameed al-Waheed after he had been unlawfully imprisoned. [70] Mosley, who was equally egoistical, wanted Rothermere's support, but only on his own terms. [95], The Daily Mail was transformed by its editor during the 1970s and 1980s, David English. "[139], On 16 July 1993, the Mail ran the headline "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' finding". The caf owner agreed to supply the footage for 50,000 and asked an IT technician to make the footage accessible again. Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre. [17][25][26] Wikipedia's ban of the Daily Mail generated a significant amount of media attention, especially from the British media. [56] In an article in 1927 celebrating five years of Fascism in Italy, it was argued that there were parallels between modern Britain and Italy in the last years of the Liberal era as it was argued Italy had a series of weak liberal and conservative governments that made concessions to the Italian Socialist Party such as granting universal male suffrage in 1912 whose "only result was to hasten the arrival of disorder". [57], By 1929 George Ward Price was writing in the Mail that Baldwin should be deposed and Beaverbrook elected as leader. [12] According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of Daily Mail readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats. An Editor's Note from NewsGuard stated that "This label now has the benefit of the dailymail.co.uk's input and our view is that in some important respects their objections are right and we were wrong". 1) Exclusive Stories. [62] In his leader, he advocated that Hungary retake all of the lands lost under the Treaty of Trianon, which caused immediate concern in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Romania, where it was believed that his leader reflected British government policy. [168] In the editorial, the paper further remarked that "We do not maintain, like the jealous God of Deuteronomy, that the iniquity of the fathers should be visited on the sons. [39][37]:27. [84] In an essay that has been widely criticised as misogynistic, Touchy wrote: "The Spanish women has been a creature to admire or make work domestically, to marry or let slip away into a religious order65 percent were illiterate". [32]:28 It cost a halfpenny at a time when other London dailies cost one penny, and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals. George Ward Price, the "extra-special correspondent" of The Daily Mail was sympathetic towards the beleaguered British garrison at Chanak, but was also sympathetic towards the Turks. The video appears to show the allegedly topless princess, a former waitress, in a tiny G-string as she feeds her pet dog cake to celebrate its birthday. If you have a complaint about our content. The publisher of the Mail, the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), is listed on the London Stock Exchange. With regular, topical contributions from high profile female writers, this section is a magnet for modern women. The Daily Mail Year Book first appeared in 1901, summarizing the news of the past year in one volume of 200 to 400 pages. Do you have a news tip or photo for us? [29] The main concern of Viscount Rothermere, the current chairman and main shareholder, is that the circulation be maintained. [85] Touchy declared his horror at the young Spanish women had rejected the traditional patriarchal system, writing with disgust that the "direct action girls" of the Worker's Militia do not want to be like their mothers, submissive and obedient to men. "[78] In April 1934, the Daily Mail ran a competition entitled "Why I Like The Blackshirts" under which it awarded one pound every week for the best letter from its readers explaining why they liked the BUF. The decision of the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to open the Round Table Conferences in 1930 was greeted by The Daily Mail as the beginning of the end of Britain as a great power. The Mail accused the British government of dragging Britain into an unnecessary confrontation with Russia and of hypocrisy regarding its protests over Russian recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia's independence, citing the British government's own recognition of Kosovo's independence from Russia's ally Serbia.[128]. This sexism must be consigned to history. First with the news! Their opponent was the Conservative Party politician and leader Stanley Baldwin. [21][22][23][24] In February 2017, editors on the English Wikipedia banned the use of the Daily Mail as a source.[25][26][27]. To advertise on mailonline.co.uk, mailonsunday.co.uk, or our sister websites This is Money and Metro. Appointed Editor of the Evening Standard in 1990 he was appointed Editor of the Daily Mail in 1992 and Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers in 1998, years which saw the launches of Metro and MailOnline. [230] The town showcased was the wealthy Manchester suburb of Didsbury, which it had described the previous month as "posh and leafy" and a "property hotspot".

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