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The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper. It ceased publication in 1960, being absorbed into the Daily Mail.

Daily Chronicle

The Daily Chronicle was founded in 1872. Purchased by Edward Lloyd for £30,000 in 1876, it achieved a high reputation under the editorship of Henry Massingham and Robert Donald, who took charge in 1904. The News Chronicle was formed by the merger of the Daily News and the Daily Chronicle on 2 June 1930.^[1]

Politics

With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the paper took an anti-Franco stance and sent two correspondents, Arthur Koestler (to Málaga)^[2] and, later, Geoffrey Cox^[2] (to Madrid) in 1936. In 1956, the News Chronicle opposed the UK's military support of Israel in invading the Suez canal zone.

Death

In October 1960, the News Chronicle "finally folded, inappropriately, into the grip"^[3] of the centre-right Daily Mail. The News Chronicle's editorial position was considered at the time to be in broad support of the British Liberal Party, which was in marked contrast to that of the right-wing Daily Mail. As a result the News Chronicle ceased publication and the title was absorbed by the Daily Mail.^[1]

As part of the same takeover, the London evening paper The Star was incorporated into the Evening News.

Notable contributors

Notable contributors to the News Chronicle and its predecessors included:

• Vernon Bartlett – diplomatic correspondent
• James Cameron – war correspondent
• G. K. Chesterton – weekly opinion column in the Daily News
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – war correspondent for the Daily Chronicle during World War I
• Geoffrey Cox – war correspondent for the Spanish Civil War (in Madrid), former editor and chief executive of ITN began his career with the News Chronicle in 1932
• E. S. Dallas – Paris correspondent
• Thomas Kettle – war correspondent for the Daily News during the early part of World War I
• Arthur Koestler – writer and war correspondent for the Spanish Civil War
• Ritchie Calder - Science Editor, who broke the story of the discovery of DNA structure in 1953.
• H. G. Wells – contributor to the Daily News

Editors

1930: Tom Clarke

1933: Aylmer Vallance

1936: Gerald Barry^[2]

1948: Robin Cruikshank

1954: Michael Curtis

1957: Norman Cursley

See also

• ' 'Get Ahead' ': 1960s BBC TV programme sponsored by the paper.

Notes

External links

• DMGT Associated Newspapers – www.dmgt.co.uk
• Concise History of British Newspaper in the 20th Century – www.bl.uk
• History of the Daily News – www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
• History of the Daily Chronicle – www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk