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The '''''Daily Mail''''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] newspaper, currently published in a [[tabloid newspaper|tabloid]] format. First published in 1896 by [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe|Lord Northcliffe]], it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]''. Its sister paper, '''''[[The Mail on Sunday]]''''' was launched in 1982. An [[Irish Daily Mail|Irish edition of the paper]] was launched in 2006. The ''Daily Mail'' was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at what is now considered the [[middle-market newspaper|middle-market]] and the first to sell 1 million copies a day.<ref name="1millionaday">{{cite web|year=Early History|url=http://www.eurocosm.com/Application/Products/Original-newspapers/newspaper-history-GB.asp|title=Milestones in 20th Century Newspaper history in Britain|publisher=Eurocosm UK|accessdate=2008-04-12}}</ref>

The ''Daily Mail'' was founded as originally a [[broadsheet]] newspaper in 1896, but changed switched to its current compact format<ref>[http://www.associatednewspapers.com/dailymail.htm Associated Newspapers Ltd - Daily Mail<!--Bot-generated title-->]</ref> on 3 May 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding. On this date it also absorbed the ''[[Daily Sketch]]'', which had previously been published as a tabloid format 75 years laterby the same company. Its closest long-standing rival in terms of conservatism is , the ''[[Daily Express]]'', which has a broadly similar political stance and target readership, but nowadays sells far fewer one-third the number of copies. The publisher of the ''Mail'', the [[Daily Mail and General Trust]] is currently a [[FTSE 100]] company, and the paper has a circulation of more than two million, giving it one of the largest [[Newspaper circulation|circulation]]s of any [[English language]] daily newspaper, and the twelfth highest of any newspaper in the world.<ref name="12inworld">{{cite web|year=2005|url=http://www.wan-press.org/article2825.html|title=World’s 100 Largest Newspapers|publisher=World Association of Newspapers|accessdate=2008-04-12}}</ref>

When it was launched by Alfred and Harold Harmsworth (who later became respectively Circulation figures according to the [[Lord NorthcliffeAudit Bureau of Circulations]] and , in October 2007 show gross sales of 2,400,143 for the ''Daily Mail'', compared with 789,867 for the ''[[Lord RothermereDaily Express]]) it made an unashamed bid for the mass market''. It Twenty-five years ago the circulation was published 1.87 million copies a day compared to over 2 million copies per day by the ''Daily Express'' at half the price same time period.{{Fact|date=September 2008}} According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of other newspapers''Daily Mail'' readers voted for the Conservative party, compared to 21% for Labour and kept its coverage both more concise and more populist. This approach led to it being highly successful17% for the Liberal Democrats.<refname="MORI survey"> Taylor, S{{cite web|url=http://www. Jipsos-mori. ''The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere and the Daily Mailcom/polls/2004/voting-by-readership.'' shtml|title=MORI survey of newspaper readers|accessdate=2007-12-21}}</ref>

==History=====Early history===The ''Daily Mail'' also set out to be entertaining, using in particular competitions as a means of promotion, and focusing on human-interest stories as a way of attracting readers to whom in-depth political analysis did not appeal. Among other promotions, they began the devised by [[Ideal Home ExhibitionAlfred Harmsworth]], which continues to be held in (later Lord Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later [[LondonHarold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere|Lord Rothermere]] every year), was first published on 4 May 1896 and was an immediate success. 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. Soon after its launch it had more than half a million readers.

The paper lost circulation during [[World War I]]Controlled editorially by Alfred, when it spoke out in favor of [[conscription]] after with Harold running the outbreak business side of warthe operation, and particularly when it attacked the ''Mail'' from the start adopted a [[Herbert KitchenerImperialism|Lord Kitchenerimperialist]]political stance, who was at that time taking a national hero. It was accused by strongly patriotic line in the Prime Minister, [[Herbert AsquithSecond Boer War]], leading to claims that it was not reporting the issues of disloyalty the day objectively.{{Who|date=March 2008}} From the beginning, the ''Mail'' also set out to entertain its readers with human interest stories, serials, features and competitions (which were also the countrymain means by which the Harmsworths promoted the paper).

After In 1906, the resignation of Asquithpaper offered £1, 000 for the first flight across the [[David Lloyd GeorgeEnglish Channel]], and £10,000 for the first flight from [[London]] asked Lord Northcliffe to join his cabinet[[Manchester]]. ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine thought the idea preposterous and offered £10,000 for the first flight to [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], but Northcliffe refusedby 1910 both the ''Mail'''s prizes had been won. (For full list see [[Daily Mail aviation prizes]].)

After Northcliffe died in 1922, his brother Lord Rothermere took control. It The paper was under his regime that the ''Daily Mail'' published accused of warmongering before the outbreak of [[Zinoviev LetterWorld War I]], a forgery when it reported that seemed Germany was planning to indicate that crush the [[Communist Party of Great BritainBritish Empire]] was planning . Northcliffe created controversy by advocating [[conscription]] when the war broke out.{{Clarifyme|date=March 2008}} On 21 May 1915, Northcliffe wrote a violent revolutionblistering attack on [[Horatio Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]], the [[Secretary of State for War]]. Many people believed this Kitchener was responsible for considered a national hero, and overnight the defeat paper's circulation dropped from 1,386,000 to 238,000. 1,500 members of the [[Labour PartyLondon Stock Exchange]] in ceremonially burned the 1924 general election held a few days later, unsold copies and since then some Labour party members have been known to refer launched a boycott against the Harmsworth Press. Prime Minister [[H. H. Asquith]] accused the paper of being disloyal to the ''Daily Mail'' as “The Forgers’ Gazette”country.

===Inter-war period===In the 1930s1922, when Lord Northcliffe died, the ''Daily Mail'' was politically sympathetic to [[fascism]]Harold Harmsworth, and 1st Viscount Rothermere|Lord Rothermere wrote articles praising the [[British Union of Fascists]] and their leader [[Oswald Mosley]] in particular for showing “sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine”. One headline notoriously read "Hurrah for the Blackshirts". However, he toned down his support after the Fascist party was involved in street violence. The ''Mail''’s political stance was also influenced by Rothermere’s personal friendship with both [[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Adolf Hitler]] and his [[Nazi Party]] – the only newspaper to support them both consistently. Rothermere sent Hitler a telegram took full control of congratulations after Germany invaded the [[Sudetenland]] in 1938. The paper also published ''[[The Protocols of The Elders of Zion]]'' in serial form, and ran inflammatory articles about Jewish immigrants.<ref> Griffiths, Richard. ''Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany, 1933-39''.</ref>

In 1924 the ''Daily Mail'' published the forged [[Neville ChamberlainZinoviev Letter]]’s which indicated that British [[appeasementCommunists]] policy were planning violent [[revolution]]. It was supported by widely believed that this was a significant factor in the defeat of [[Ramsay MacDonald]]''Daily Mail'' until after the s [[Munich AgreementLabour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], but in the newspaper changed its stance after the Nazi invasion of [[HungaryUnited Kingdom general election, 1924|1924 general election]] in 1939, held four days later. (In some Labour circles, e.g. This change of attitude may have been influenced by Chamberlain’s threat former Labour leader [[Michael Foot]], the paper is often referred to close them downas "The Forgers' Gazette").

==Recent history==Support for Nazism and Fascism====In early 1934, Rothermere and the ''Mail'' were sympathetic to [[Oswald Mosley]] and the [[British Union of Fascists]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/midmarket/daily-mail/| title=Daily Mail| publisher=British Newspapers Online|date =}}</ref>. Rothermere wrote an article, "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", in January 1934, in which he praised Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine"<ref>[http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/dictionary/dict_h1.php#hurrah "Hurrah for the Blackshirts"]</ref>, though after the violence of the 1934 Olympia meeting involving the BUF, the ''Mail'' withdrew its support for Mosley.

The fortunes Rothermere was a friend and supporter of both [[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Adolf Hitler]], which influenced the ''Daily Mail'' were revived after a decline in 's political stance towards them up to 1939. During this period, it was the 1950s by its thenonly British newspaper consistently to support the German [[Nazism|Nazi]] Party.<ref>{{cite book|last=Griffiths|first=Richard|title=Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany, 1933-editor Sir David English9|year=1980|publisher=Constable|location=London|id=ISBN 0-09-463460-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=S. J.|title=The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere and its current editor Paul Dacre continues that trendthe Daily Mail|year=1996|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|location=London|id=ISBN 0-297-81653-5}}</ref> Rothermere visited and corresponded with Hitler on many occasions. He has widened On 1 October 1938, Rothermere sent Hitler a telegram in support of Germany's invasion of the paper’s market by launching an Irish edition Sudetenland, and expressing the hope that 'Adolf the Great' would become a summarized edition for UK expatriatespopular figure in Britain.

==Political In 1937, the ''Mail'''s chief war correspondent, George Ward Price, to whom Mussolini once personally wrote in support of him and editorial stances==the newspaper, published a book, ''I Know These Dictators'', in defence of Hitler and Mussolini. [[Evelyn Waugh]] was sent as a reporter for the ''Mail'' to cover the anticipated [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Italian invasion of Ethiopia]].

The Rothermere and the ''Daily Mail'' claims to represent Middle England and Conservative values, opposing the supported [[liberalNeville Chamberlain]] establishment. It generally opposes the 's policy of [[European Unionappeasement]] and , particularly during the increasing trend events leading up to see Britain as part of the [[EuropeMunich Agreement]]. It is usually against immigrationHowever, although it has supported after the wish Nazi invasion of white asylum-seekers from [[ZimbabwePrague]] to remain in [[Britain]]. It is generally against [[abortion]] and in favour of 1939, the [[monarchy]], tax cuts ''Mail'' changed position and harsher penalties urged Chamberlain to prepare for criminals. It is generally supportive war, not least, perhaps, because on account of [[Israel]], although its stance it has recently had been attacked for its lack of support for threatened with closure by the war in [[Iraq]]British Government. {{Fact|date=October 2007}}

It generally takes a strong stand against criminality. It is often referred to In 2001 at the 27th G8 Summit held in Genoa, Italy; 93 peaceful anti-globalisation protesters were brutally beaten by the left wing press Italian police, falsely imprisoned and made to chant fascist slogans. Posing as "The Hate a British Embassy official, a woman from the Daily Mail" or "took pictures of some of the prisoners including journalist Mark Covell. The next day the Daily Hate", because of Mail ran a quotation from Lord Northcliffe that said front page story including an entirely false report describing Covell as having helped mastermind the formula riots. It took 4 years for success was the newspaper to give readers a "daily hate"apologise and pay Covell damages for invasion of privacy.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/17/italy.g8]

The paper continues to be referred to on occasion by critics as the ''Daily Heil'', referring to its right-wing stance and its past support for Mosley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/12/03/where_have_all_the_goals_gone.html|title=Where Have All The Goals Gone?|publisher=[[The Guardian]]|work=The Guardian Sport|accessdate=2007-01-09}}</ref> ===Recent history===The ''Daily Mail'' was transformed by its editor of the seventies and eighties, Sir [[David English (journalist)|David English]]. Sir David began his Fleet Street career in 1951, joining ''[[Daily Mirror|The Daily Mirror]]'' before moving to ''The Daily Sketch'', where he became features editor. It perceives was the ''Sketch'' which brought him his first editorship, from 1969 to 1971. That year the ''Sketch'' was closed and he moved to take over the top job at the ''Mail'', where he was to remain for more than 20 years. English transformed it from a struggling rival selling two million copies fewer than the ''Daily Express'' to a formidable journalistic powerhouse, which soared dramatically in popularity. After 20 years perfecting the ''Mail'', Sir David English became editor-in-chief and chairman of Associated Newspapers in 1992. The paper enjoyed a period of journalistic success in the 1980s, employing some of the most inventive writers in old [[Fleet Street]] including the gossip columnist [[Nigel Dempster]], Lynda Lee Potter and sportswriter [[Ian Wooldridge]] (who unlike some of his colleagues - the paper generally did not support sporting boycotts of white-minority-ruled South Africa - strongly opposed [[Apartheid]]). In 1982, a Sunday title, the '''''Mail on Sunday''''' was launched (the ''[[Sunday Mail (Scotland)|Sunday Mail]]'' was already the name of a newspaper in Scotland, owned by the Mirror Group.) There are Scottish editions of both the ''Daily Mail'' and ''Mail on Sunday'', with different articles and columnists. In 1992, the current editor, [[Paul Dacre]], was appointed. ===Foreign editions===The ''Daily Mail'' officially entered the [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] market with the launch of a [[Irish Daily Mail|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. Its masthead differs from that of UK versions by having a green rectangle with the word "IRISH", instead of the [[Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom|Royal Arms]]. The Irish version includes stories of Irish interest alongside content from the UK version. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Irish edition had a circulation of 63,511 for July 2007 and is steadily increasing on each survey.<ref>[http://www.abc-ireland.ie/ Audit Bureau of Circulations]</ref> Since 24 September 2006 ''[[Ireland on Sunday]]'', the Irish Sunday newspaper acquired by Associated in 2001, was replaced by an Irish edition of the ''Mail on Sunday'' (the ''Irish Mail on Sunday''), to tie in with the weekday newspaper. The newspaper entered India on 16 November 2007 with the launch of ''Mail Today'',<ref>[http://www.mailtoday.in/ ''Mail Today'']</ref> a 48-page compact size newspaper printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida with a print run of 110,000 copies. Based around a subscription model, the newspaper has the same fonts and feel as the Daily Mail and was set up with investment from Associated Newspapers and editorial assistance from the ''Daily Mail'' newsroom.<ref>[http://www.thomascrampton.com/media/thomas-jacob-mail-todays-india-newspaper-ifra/ Associated Newspapers launches Mail Today in India]</ref> ===Libel lawsuits=== On 27 April 2007, film star [[Hugh Grant]] accepted damages over claims made about his relationships with his former girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles published in the ''Daily Mail'' and ''The Mail on Sunday'' on 18, 21 and 24 February. His lawyer stated that all of the articles' "allegations and factual assertions are false."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6598937.stm |title=Hugh Grant accepts libel damages |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=2007-04-27 |accessdate=2007-02-24}}</ref> Grant said, in a written statement, that he took the action because: "I was tired of the ''Daily Mail'' and ''Mail on Sunday'' papers publishing almost entirely fictional articles about my private life for their own financial gain. I'm also hoping that this statement in court might remind people that the so-called 'close friends' or 'close sources' on which these stories claim to be based almost never exist."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,2066970,00.html |title=Associated pays Grant damages |last=Tryhorn |first=Chris |publisher=''[[Guardian Unlimited]]'' |date=2007-04-27 |accessdate=2007-02-17}}</ref>  World soccer's governing body, [[FIFA]], also filed a lawsuit against the ''Daily Mail'' due to libellous comments made by sportswriter Andrew Jennings against the organisation and its president Sepp Blatter.<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/sports/2003/mar/19fifa.htm FIFA files lawsuit against Daily Mail]</ref> On 31 May 2008, fans of [[emo]] music, many of them followers of the band [[My Chemical Romance]], marched through London's Hyde Park to the offices of the ''Daily Mail'', accusing the newspaper of attacking emo music by referring to it as "suicide cult".<ref>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90981575 N Emo Fans March on London's 'Daily Mail']</ref> The '' Daily Mail'' responded by stating, "The Daily Mail's coverage of the 'Emo' movement has been balanced, restrained and above all, in the public interest."<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media such /2008/jun/02/dailymail.pressandpublishing?gusrc=rss&feed=media EDaily Mail: statement on 'Emo' protest]</ref> ==Editorial stance=={{Refimprove|section|date=December 2007}}<div class="infobox" style="width: 20em;">'''Current columnists'''*[[Peter Allen (journalist)|Peter Allen]]*[[Charlie Bain]]*[[Alex Brummer]]*[[Rebecca Camber]]*[[Nick Craven]]*[[Rebecca English]]*[[Charlotte Gill]]*[[Sam Greenhill]]*[[Christian Gysin]]*[[Beth Hale]]*[[Roy Hattersley]]*[[Liz Jones]]*[[Richard Kay]]*[[Des Kelly]]*[[Tom Kelly (Journalist)|Tom Kelly]]*[[Olinka Koster]]*[[Ann Leslie]]*[[Edward Lucas]]*[[Richard Littlejohn]]*[[James Mills (journalist)|James Mills]]*[[Bill Mouland]]*[[Dan Newling]]*[[Graham Poll]]*[[Melanie Phillips]]*[[Gordon Rayner]]*[[Gwyneth Rees]]*[[Tom Utley]]*[[Michael Seamark]]*[[Neil Sears]]*[[Paul Sheehan (entertainment journalist)|Paul Sheehan]]*[[Chris Tookey]]*[[Keith Waterhouse]]*[[David Williams (UK journalist)|David Williams]]*[[Michael Winner]]*[[Stephen Wright]]*[[Tahira Yaqoob]] </div>The ''Daily Mail'' considers itself to be the voice of [[Middle England]] speaking up for "small-c" conservative<ref>"small c" referring to [[conservatism]] as a [[political philosophy]]. Capitalising the C would imply the [[British Broadcasting CorporationConservative Party (UK)|BBCConservative Party]] , as "Conservative" is a [[Proper noun#Proper_nouns_and_common_nouns|proper noun]].</ref> values against what it sees as a liberal establishment. It generally takes an [[Euroscepticism|anti-EU]], anti-mass immigration, anti-abortion view, based around what it describes as "traditional values", and is correspondingly [[family values|pro-family]], pro-capitalism (though not always supportive of its aftereffects), and pro-monarchy, as well as, in some cases, advocating stricter punishments for crime. It also often calls for lower levels of taxation. The paper is generally critical of the [[BBC]], which it argues is biased to the [[left politically-wing politics|left]]. Its columnists tend However, it is less supportive of deregulated [[commercial television]] than ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]'' (a tabloid owned by [[Rupert Murdoch]]), and unlike ''The Sun'' it seems to be politically broadly nostalgic for what it believes the BBC once was. In the late 1960s the paper went through a phase of being liberal on social issues like corporal punishment, but this proved short-lived and it soon reverted to its traditional right-wingconservative line.  It endorses has [[Richard Littlejohn]], who returned in 2005 from ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]'', alongside [[Peter Hitchens]], who joined its sister title the ''Mail on Sunday'' in 2001, when his former newspaper, the ''Daily Express'', was purchased by [[Richard Desmond]], the owner of a number of pornographic titles. The editorial stance was highly critical of [[Tony Blair]], when he was still Prime Minister, and endorsed the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in most electionsthe [[UK general election, 2005|2005 general election]]<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=347259&in_page_id=1787&in_a_source= ''However you vote, give Mr Blair a bloody nose'', Daily Mail, 5th May 2005]</ref> However, in Blair's earlier years as [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] leader and publicly repudiates groups like then Prime Minister the paper often wrote positively about him and his reforms of the party. Opponents of Littlejohn have accused the columnist of being preoccupied with homosexuality (which he frequently calls 'poovery') and lying about asylum seekers being 'hosed down in benefits'<ref>{{cite web |publisher=The New Statesman |author=[[British National PartyJohann Hari]] |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200705210048 |title=On Fantasy Island}}</ref>. The ''Mail'' championed the case of [[Stephen Lawrence]], a black teenager who was murdered in a racially motivated attack in [[Eltham, London]] in April 1993. In February 1997, the ''Mail'' led its front page with a picture of the five men accused of Lawrence's murder and the headline "MURDERERS", stating that it believed that the men had murdered Lawrence and adding "if we are associated wrong, let them sue us". In a 2002 interview, editor Paul Dacre described the Lawrence story as a "pivotal moment" and stated that "the old ''Daily Mail'', I'd be the first to admit, was slightly racist... but we are not now and Stephen Lawrence was the turning point on that".<ref>{{cite web |publisher=British Journalism Review |author=Bill Hagerty |url=http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2002/no3_hagerty2.htm |title=Paul Dacre: the zeal thing}}</ref> The ''Mail'' has also opposed the growing of [[genetically-modified crops]] in the United Kingdom, a stance it shares with farmany of its left-wing critics. On international affairs, the ''Mail'' broke with the establishment media consensus over the [[2008 South Ossetia war]] between Russia and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050075/MAIL-COMMENT-Is-Miliband-talking-war.html|title=MAIL COMMENT: Is Miliband talking us into another war?|publisher=Daily Mail|date=2008-08-28|accessdate=2008-08-29}}</ref> ===Immigration===Generally, its journalists argue emphatically in favour of ''managed'' migration whilst criticising what it calls Labour's "open door" immigration policy which, as is often quoted, has reportedly seen the UK's population increase by around 1.2 million.<ref name="population/immigration">{{cite web|url=http://www.workpermit.com/news/2005_09_02/uk/immigration_1mln.htm|publisher=Work Permit|title=Immigration increases UK population by over 1 million|author= |accessdate=2007-11-23}}</ref> However, its fervent treatment of issues such as [[Refugee|asylum seekers]] has prompted opponents (including ex-[[Mayor of London]] [[Ken Livingstone]] in a well-publicised argument)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ken Livingstone's statement in full|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4287171.stm|publisher=BBC Online|date=2005-02-22|accessdate=2008-03-27}}</ref> to accuse the Mail of engendering [[racism]]. The paper has also been accused of misquoting information about immigration in order to support its anti-immigrant line, a move criticised by the [[Association of Chief Police Officers]] (ACPO), who warned that media campaigns against immigrants could lead to a risk of "significant public disorder". However, the paper chose to interpret this as meaning that the disorder would be caused by immigrants, and failed to mention the media's role when reporting ACPO's statement.<ref>Nick Davies, "None deadlier than the Mail" [http://www.newstatesman.com/200801240030]</ref> The newspaper is sometimes accused by its critics of having an anti-semitic past, being described by Ken Livingstone as having campaigned not to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, that it described Jews as infiltrating and undermining the pre-Hitler German government, supporting the Nazis, and blaming the Jews for having caused bad feeling against them in Germany.<ref name="eveningstandard">{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/mayor_letter_220205.jsp|publisher=Mayor of London|title=The Mayor's response to the London Assembly|author=Ken Livingstone|accessdate=2007-11-23}}</ref> == Supplements and features =={||-valign=top|width=50%|'''''Daily Mail'''''*''City & Finance'' - City & Finance is the business part of the Daily Mail, and the Financial Mail is the business paper free with the Mail on Sunday. City & Finance features City News and the results from the [[London Stock Exchange]], and also has its own website called ''This is Money''.<ref> [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk This is Money]</ref>*''Travelmail'' - Contains travel articles, advertisements etc.*''Femail'' - Femail is an extensive part of the ''Daily Mail'''s newspaper and website, being one of four main features on [[Mail Online]] others being News, TV & Showbiz and Sport. It is designed for women and is similar to magazines with life stories such as ''Bella Magazine'' and ''Take A Break''.*''Weekend'' - The ''Daily Mail Weekend'' is a TV guide published by the ''Daily Mail'', included free with the ''Mail'' every Saturday. Weekend magazine, launched in October 1993, is issued free with the Saturday ''Daily Mail'' and has more ABC1 readers than any other national magazine. Weekend was originally launched with the intention of raising the Saturday circulation up to around 1.8 million copies. Today, the ''Daily Mail'' on a Saturday circulates over 3.2 million copies and is read by over 6.4 million adults. The guide does not use a magazine-type layout but chooses a newspaper style similar to the ''Daily Mail'' itself. In April 2007, the "Weekend" had a major revamp which included new articles and the end of other ones, such as the popular ''Nigel Andrew's View'' next to the guide every day. A feature changed during the revamp was a dedicated [[Freeview (United Kingdom)|Freeview]] channel page to ensure that the guide was more "user-friendly" for people with the most used digital box in [[Great Britain]].|width=50%|[[Image:This is Money.JPG|240px|right politics|thumb|The Financial Mail on Sunday]] '''''Mail on Sunday'''''*''Financial Mail on Sunday'' - now part of the main paper, this section includes the award winning Financial Mail Enterprise, focusing on small business.*''You'' - ''You'' magazine is a women's magazine featured in the ''Mail on Sunday''. Its mix of in-depth features plus fashion, beauty advice, practical insights on health and relationships, food recipes and interiors pages make it a regular read for over 3 million women (and 2.3 million men) every week. The ''Mail'' markets it, with ''Live'' magazine, as the only paper to have a magazine for him (''Live'') and for her (''You''). The ''Mail on Sunday'' is read by over six million a week<ref>[http://www.anladvertising.co.uk/mailonsunday.html Advertising for the Daily Mail]</ref>.*''Live'' - this is the magazine is aimed at men. The main features are columms by well-known people such as [[Piers Morgan]], has a particular stance towards iPod style equipment, and as such has been criticised for brand favouritism.*''Mail on Sunday 2'' This pullout includes review, featuring articles on the arts, books and culture and it consists of reviews of all media and entertainment forms and interviews with sector personalities, property, travel and health.*''Sportsmail'' - on the back pages of the ''Mail''. It features different sports including an emphasis on alternative sports such as darts and snooker.*''Football Mail on Sunday'' - this reviews [[Premier League]], [[Football League Championship|Championship]] and [[The Football League|Football League]] games from Saturday as well as any important international games.|}=== Regular cartoon strips ===* ''[[Garfield]]''* ''[[I Don't Believe It]]''* ''[[Odd Streak]]''* ''The Strip Show''* ''[[Up and Running]]'' (by Knight Features)* ''[[The Gambols]]'' (Sunday, in the Cartoons section)* ''[[Fred Basset]]''* ''[[The Middletons]]'' (Sunday, in the Cartoons section)* ''[[Peanuts]]'' (Sunday, in the Cartoons section) Current cartoon strips that are in the ''Daily Mail'' include ''[[Garfield]]'' which moved from the ''[[Daily Express]]'' in 2006 and is also included in ''The Mail on Sunday''. It is usually written by Jim Davis. ''I Don't Believe It'' is another 3/4 part strip, written by Dick Millington. ''Odd Streak'' and ''The Strip Show'', which is shown in 3D are one part strips. ''Up and Running'' is a strip distributed by Knight Features and ''[[Fred Basset]]'' follows the life of the dog of the same name in a two part strip in the ''Daily Mail'' since 8 July 1963.<ref name="c2med">{{cite web |url=http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=1&article=21463 |publisher=C21 Media |title=Fred Basset is back |author=Maria Esposito |accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref> ''The Gambols'' are another feature in the ''Mail on Sunday''. The long-running ''Teddy Tail'' cartoon strip, was first published on 5 April 1915 was the first ever cartoon strip in a British newspaper. It ran for over 40 years to 1960, spawning the popular ''Teddy Tail League'' Children's Club and many annuals from 1934 to 1942 and again from 1949 to 1962. ''Teddy Tail'' was a Mouse, with friends Kitty Puss (a cat), Douglas Duck and Dr. Beetle. Teddy Tail is always shown with a knot in his tail, the reason why is explained in one of his stories.<ref name="tt1">{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit20th.html |title=Teddy Tail of the Daily Mail}}</ref><ref name="tt2">{{cite web |url=http://www.gatewaymonthly.com/513teddy.html |title=Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Twentieth Century}}</ref> === Online media ==={{main|Mail Online}}The ''Daily Mail'' and ''The Mail on Sunday'' publish most of their news online in a service called the Mail Online. Most of the site can be viewed for free and without registration, though some services require users to register. ==Contributors=====Notable regular contributors (past and present)==={|width=100%|-valign=top|width=25%|'''Journalists'''*[[Alex Brummer]]*[[Sam Greenhill]]*[[Roy Hattersley]]*[[Liz Jones]]*[[Des Kelly]]*[[Tom Kelly]]|width=25%|*[[Ann Leslie]]*[[Edward Lucas (journalist)|Edward Lucas]]*[[Richard Littlejohn]]*[[Graham Poll]]*[[Melanie Phillips]]*[[David Mellor]]*[[Idiot|Julie Moult]]*[[Paul Sheehan (entertainment journalist)|Paul Sheehan]]|width=25%|*[[Michael Winner]]*[[Stephen Wright]]*[[Craig Brown (satirist)|Craig Brown]]*[[Patrick Collins]]*[[Derek Draper]]*[[Peter Hitchens]]*[[Keith Waterhouse]]*[[Julie Burchill]]*[[John Junor]]*[[Norman Tebbit]]|width=25%| '''Cartoonists'''* [[Alex Graham]]* [[Jim Davis (cartoonist)|Jim Davis]]* [[Stanley McMurtry]] '''Photographers/Picture editors''' *[[Dave Parker]]*[[Mark Richards]]|} ===Past writers===*[[Paul Callan (journalist)|Paul Callan]]*[[William Comyns Beaumont]] (left in 1903 to create ''[[The Bystander]]'')*[[Anthony Cave Brown]] (worked from mid-1950s through mid-1960s, won "Reporter of the Year" award in 1958)*[[Nigel Dempster]]*[[Simon Heffer]] (left in 2005 to join the ''Daily Telegraph'')*[[Paul Johnson (writer)|Paul Johnson]] (left the ''Mail'' in 2001; now writes for the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' and ''The Spectator'')*[[Lynda Lee Potter]] (wrote for the ''Mail'' from 1967 until her death in 2004)*[[William Le Queux]]{{ndash}} A prolific writer of [[invasion literature]] in the pre-First World War period.*[[Valentine Williams]] (1883&ndash;1946) General news correspondent and, during the [[First World War]], chief of the ''Daily Mail'' war service. Later a popular mystery novelist.<ref>Source: Williams' memoir, ''The World of Action'' (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1938), which describes his career and journalistic adventures.</ref>*[[Ian Wooldridge]], a sportswriter on the paper from 1961 until his death in 2007 ==See also==*''[[Daily Chronicle]]'', a newspaper which merged with the ''Daily News'' to become the ''News-Chronicle'' and was finally absorbed by the ''Daily Mail''

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