Daily Herald

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The Daily Herald was a British daily newspaper known for its left-wing, pro-labour stance and mass working-class readership during much of the 20th century.

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Daily Herald canonical 8

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instanceOf British newspaper
daily newspaper
newspaper
affiliation Labour movement
associatedWith Labour Party (UK)
trade union movement
circulation over 2 million copies at peak
circulationRank one of the highest-circulation British dailies in the interwar period
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
editor George Lansbury
H. G. (Hugh) Simmonds
Percy Cudlipp
endTime 1964
format broadsheet
foundedBy Labour movement activists
hasGenre tabloid-style popular journalism (content style)
headquartersLocation London
linked to: London, England
ideology social democracy
language English
locatedIn London
linked to: London, England
mediaType print
notableFor coverage of labour and trade union issues
mass working-class readership
strong support for the Labour Party
ownedBy International Publishing Corporation
Odhams Press
Trades Union Congress (part-share, historically)
politicalAlignment left-wing
pro-Labour
predecessor The Herald
printType mass-circulation newspaper
publicationFrequency daily
publisher Odhams Press
replacedBy The Sun
startTime 1912
status defunct
subject labour relations
politics
social issues
trade unions
successor The Sun
targetAudience working-class readership

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Michael Foot employer Daily Herald
The Sun predecessor Daily Herald
John Strachey workedFor Daily Herald
Fenner Brockway employer Daily Herald
The Herald predecessorOf Daily Herald
The Herald relatedTo Daily Herald
H. G. (Hugh) Simmonds notableWork Daily Herald
H. G. (Hugh) Simmonds employer Daily Herald