The Daily News was a national daily newspaper

Newspaper

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 in the United Kingdom.

The News was founded in 1846 by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...

, who also served as the newspaper's first editor

Editing

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. It was conceived as a radical

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 rival to the right-wing Morning Chronicle

Morning Chronicle

The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London, England, and published under various owners until 1862. It was most notable for having been the first employer of Charles Dickens, and for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew which were collected and published in book format in...

. The paper was not at first a commercial success. Dickens edited 17 issues before handing over the editorship over to his friend John Foster, who had more experience in journalism than Dickens. Foster ran the paper until 1870. Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer.-Life:Charles Mackay was born in Perth, Scotland. His father was by turns a naval officer and a foot soldier; his mother died shortly after his birth. Charles was educated at the Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent...

, Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau

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, George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...

, H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

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, and G.K. Chesterton were among the leading reformist writers who wrote for the paper during its heyday. In 1870, the News absorbed the Morning Star.

In 1901, Quaker chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury

George Cadbury

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 bought the Daily News and used the paper to campaign for old age pensions and against sweatshop

Sweatshop

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 labour. As a pacifist, Cadbury opposed the Boer War

Second Boer War

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 – and the Daily News followed his line.

In 1906, the News sponsored an exhibition on sweated labour at the Queen's Hall

Queen's Hall

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. This exhibition was credited with strengthening the women's suffrage

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 movement. In 1909, H. N. Brailsford

H. N. Brailsford

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 and H. W. Nevinson resigned from the paper when it refused to condemn the force feeding of suffragette

Suffragette

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s.

In 1912, the News merged with the Morning Leader, and was for a time known as the Daily News and Leader. In 1928, it merged with the Westminster Gazette

Westminster Gazette

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, and in 1930, with the Daily Chronicle to form the centre-left News Chronicle

News Chronicle

The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper. It ceased publication on 17 October 1960, being absorbed into the Daily Mail. Its offices were in Bouverie Street, off Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8DP, England.-Daily Chronicle:...

.

The chairman from 1911 to 1930 was Edward Cadbury

Edward Cadbury

Edward Cadbury was a British industrialist and philanthropist.He was the eldest son of George Cadbury and his first wife Mary . He joined the family business of Cadbury Brothers in 1893, becoming a managing director in 1899 and chairman in 1937, retiring in 1943. He was chairman of the Daily...

, eldest son of George Cadbury.

Editors

1846: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...

1846: John Foster

1847: Eyre Evans Crowe

Eyre Evans Crowe

Eyre Evans Crowe was an English journalist and historian.He commenced his work as a writer for the London newspaper press in connection with the Morning Chronicle, and he afterwards became a leading contributor to the Examiner and the Daily News...

1851: Frederick Knight Hunt

1854: William Weir

1858: Thomas Walker

1869: Edward Dicey

Edward Dicey

Edward James Stephen Dicey was an English writer, journalist, and editor.Born at Claybrook Hall, Leicestershire, Dicey was the son of Thomas Edward Dicey, owner of the Northampton Mercury, and Anne Mary, née Stephen...

1869: Frank Harrison Hill

1886: John Robinson

1896: Edward Tyas Cook

Edward Tyas Cook

Sir Edward Tyas Cook was an English journalist, biographer, and man of letters.-Biography:Born in Brighton, Cook was the youngest son of Silas Kemball Cook, secretary of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, and his wife, Emily, née Archer...

1901: Rudolph Chambers Lehmann

1902: Alfred George Gardiner

Alfred George Gardiner

Alfred George Gardiner was a British journalist and author. His essays, written under the pen-name Alpha of the Plough, are highly regarded. He was also Chairman of the National Anti-Sweating League, a pressure group which campaigned for a minimum wage in industry.-Early life:Gardiner was born in...

1920: Stuart Hodgson

Source: 1911 Britannica