Daily Mirror Explained

Daily Mirror
Motto:The Heart of Britain
Type:Daily newspaper
Format:Red top
Owners:Reach plc
Political:Labour[1]
Headquarters:One Canada Square, London, United Kingdom
Circulation:225,983
Circulation Date:May 2024
Circulation Ref:[2]
Oclc:223228477

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.[3] Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply The Mirror. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year.[4] Its Sunday sister paper is the Sunday Mirror. Unlike other major British tabloids such as The Sun and the Daily Mail, the Mirror has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail, which incorporate certain stories from the Mirror that are of Scottish significance.

Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a larger audience. It was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, who sold it to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1963 a restructuring of the media interests of the Harmsworth family led to the Mirror becoming a part of International Publishing Corporation. During the mid-1960s, daily sales exceeded 5 million copies, a feat never repeated by it or any other daily (non-Sunday) British newspaper since.[5] The Mirror was owned by Robert Maxwell between 1984 and 1991. The paper went through a protracted period of crisis after his death before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity in 1999 to form Trinity Mirror.

History

1903–1995

The Daily Mirror was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women.[6] About the name, he said: "I intend it to be really a mirror of feminine life as well on its grave as on its lighter sides ... to be entertaining without being frivolous, and serious without being dull."[7] It cost one penny (equivalent to p in).

It was not an immediate success and in 1904 Harmsworth decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper with a broader focus. Harmsworth appointed Hamilton Fyfe as editor and all of the paper's female journalists were fired. The masthead was changed to The Daily Illustrated Mirror, which ran from 26 January to 27 April 1904 (issues 72 to 150), when it reverted to The Daily Mirror.[8] The first issue of the relaunched paper did not have advertisements on the front page as previously, but instead news text and engraved pictures (of a traitor and an actress), with the promise of photographs inside.[9] Two days later, the price was dropped to one halfpenny and to the masthead was added: "A paper for men and women".[10] This combination was more successful: by issue 92, the guaranteed circulation was 120,000 copies[11] and by issue 269, it had grown to 200,000:[12] by then the name had reverted and the front page was mainly photographs. Circulation grew to 466,000 making it the second-largest morning newspaper.[13]

Alfred Harmsworth sold the newspaper to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1917, the price was increased to one penny.[14] Circulation continued to grow: in 1919, some issues sold more than a million copies a day, making it the largest daily picture paper.[15] In 1924 the newspaper sponsored the 1924 Women's Olympiad held at Stamford Bridge in London.

Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mirrors editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s.[16] [17] On Monday, 22 January 1934 the Daily Mirror ran the headline "Give the Blackshirts a helping hand" urging readers to join Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and giving the address to which to send membership applications.[18] By the mid-1930s, the Mirror was struggling – it and the Mail were the main casualties of the early 1930s circulation war that saw the Daily Herald and the Daily Express establish circulations of more than two million, and Rothermere decided to sell his shares in it.

In 1935 Rothermere sold the paper to Harry Guy Bartholomew and Hugh Cudlipp.[19] With Cecil King (Rothermere's nephew) in charge of the paper's finances and Guy Bartholomew as editor, during the late 1930s the Mirror was transformed from a conservative, middle class newspaper into a left-wing paper for the working class.[20] Partly on the advice of the American advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, the Mirror became the first British paper to adopt the appearance of the New York tabloids. The headlines became bigger, the stories shorter and the illustrations more abundant.[21] By 1939, the publication was selling 1.4 million copies a day. In 1937, Hugh McClelland introduced his wild Western comic strip Beelzebub Jones in the Daily Mirror. After taking over as cartoon chief at the Mirror in 1945,[22] he dropped Beelzebub Jones and moved on to a variety of new strips.

During the Second World War the Mirror positioned itself as the paper of the ordinary soldier and civilian, and was critical of the political leadership and the established parties. At one stage, the paper was threatened with closure following the publication of a Philip Zec cartoon (captioned by William Connor), which was misinterpreted by Winston Churchill and Herbert Morrison.[23] In the 1945 UK general election, the paper strongly supported the Labour Party in its eventual landslide victory. In doing so, the paper supported Herbert Morrison, who co-ordinated Labour's campaign, and recruited his former antagonist Philip Zec to reproduce, on the front page, a popular VE Day cartoon on the morning of the election, suggesting that Labour were the only party who could maintain peace in post-war Britain. By the late 1940s, it was selling 4.5 million copies a day, outstripping the Express; for some 30 years afterwards, it dominated the British daily newspaper market, selling more than 5 million copies a day at its peak in the mid-1960s.

The Mirror was an influential model for German tabloid Bild, which was founded in 1952 and became Europe's biggest-selling newspaper.[24]

In 1955, the Mirror and its stablemate the Sunday Pictorial (later to become the Sunday Mirror) began printing a northern edition in Manchester. In 1957 it introduced the Andy Capp cartoon, created by Reg Smythe from Hartlepool, in the northern editions.[25]

The Mirror mass working-class readership had made it the United Kingdom's best-selling daily tabloid newspaper. In 1960, it acquired the Daily Herald (the popular daily of the labour movement) when it bought Odhams, in one of a series of takeovers which created the International Publishing Corporation (IPC). The Mirror management did not want the Herald competing with the Mirror for readers, and in 1964, relaunched it as a mid-market paper, now named The Sun. When it failed to win readers, The Sun was sold to Rupert Murdoch – who immediately relaunched it as a more populist and sensationalist tabloid and a direct competitor to the Mirror.

In an attempt to cater to a different kind of reader, the Mirror launched the "Mirrorscope" pull-out section on 30 January 1968. The Press Gazette commented: "The Daily Mirror launched its revolutionary four-page supplement "Mirrorscope". The ambitious brief for the supplement, which ran on Wednesdays and Fridays, was to deal with international affairs, politics, industry, science, the arts and business".[26] The British Journalism Review said in 2002 that "Mirrorscope" was "a game attempt to provide serious analysis in the rough and tumble of the tabloids".[27] It failed to attract significant numbers of new readers, and the pull-out section was abandoned, its final issue appearing on 27 August 1974.

In 1978, The Sun overtook the Mirror in circulation, and in 1984 the Mirror was sold to Robert Maxwell. The first Mirror using colour appeared on the 1st August 1988 edition.[28] Following Maxwell's death in 1991, David Montgomery became Mirror Group's CEO, and a period of cost-cutting and production changes ensued. The Mirror went through a protracted period of crisis before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity to form Trinity Mirror in 1999. Printing of the Daily and Sunday Mirror moved to Trinity Mirror's facilities in Watford and Oldham.

1995–2004

Under the editorship of Piers Morgan (from October 1995 to May 2004) the paper saw a number of controversies.[29] Morgan was widely criticised and forced to apologise for the headline "ACHTUNG! SURRENDER For you Fritz, ze Euro 96 Championship is over" a day before England met Germany in a semi-final of the Euro 96 football championships.[30]

In 2000, Morgan was the subject of an investigation after Suzy Jagger wrote a story in The Daily Telegraph revealing that he had bought £20,000 worth of shares in the computer company Viglen soon before the Mirrors 'City Slickers' column tipped Viglen as a good buy.[31] Morgan was found by the Press Complaints Commission to have breached the Code of Conduct on financial journalism, but kept his job. The 'City Slickers' columnists, Anil Bhoyrul and James Hipwell, were both found to have committed further breaches of the Code, and were sacked before the inquiry. In 2004, further enquiry by the Department of Trade and Industry cleared Morgan from any charges.[32] On 7 December 2005 Bhoyrul and Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act. During the trial it emerged that Morgan had bought £67,000 worth of Viglen shares, emptying his bank account and investing under his wife's name too.[33]

In 2002, the Mirror attempted to move mid-market, claiming to eschew the more trivial stories of show-business and gossip. The paper changed its masthead logo from red to black (and occasionally blue), in an attempt to dissociate itself from the term "red top", a term for a sensationalist mass-market tabloid. (On 6 April 2005, the red top came back.) Under then-editor Piers Morgan, the newspaper's editorial stance opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and ran many front pages critical of the war. It also gave financial support to the 15 February 2003 anti-war protest, paying for a large screen and providing thousands of placards. Morgan re-hired John Pilger, who had been sacked during Robert Maxwell's ownership of the Mirror titles. Despite such changes, Morgan was unable to halt the paper's decline in circulation, a decline shared by its direct tabloid rivals The Sun and the Daily Star.[34]

Morgan was fired from the Mirror on 14 May 2004 after authorising the newspaper's publication of photographs allegedly showing Iraqi prisoners being abused by British Army soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.[35] Within days the photographs were shown to be fakes. Under the headline "SORRY.. WE WERE HOAXED", the Mirror responded that it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and apologised for the publication of the photographs.[36]

2004–present

The Mirror front page on 4 November 2004, after the re-election of George W. Bush as U.S. president, read "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?". It provided a list of states and their alleged average IQ, showing the Bush states all below average intelligence (except for Virginia), and all John Kerry states at or above average intelligence. The source for this table was The Economist,[37] although it was a hoax.[38] Richard Wallace became editor in 2004.

On 30 May 2012, Trinity Mirror announced the merger of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror into a single seven-day-a-week title.[39] Richard Wallace and Tina Weaver, the respective editors of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, were simultaneously dismissed and Lloyd Embley, editor of The People, appointed as editor of the combined title with immediate effect.[40] [41] In 2018, Reach plc acquired the Northern & Shell titles, including the Daily Express, which led to a number of editor moves across the stable. Lloyd Embley was then promoted to editor-in-chief across the entire group, and Alison Phillips (previously deputy editor-in-chief for the Trinity Mirror titles) was appointed editor of the Daily Mirror.

Political allegiance

The Mirror has consistently supported the Labour Party since the 1945 UK general election.[42] On the day of the 1979 UK general election, the Daily Mirror urged its readers to vote for the governing Labour Party led by James Callaghan. As widely predicted by the opinion polls, Labour lost this election and Conservative Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister.[43] The Mirrors continued support of the Labour government was in spite of its falling popularity over the previous few months which had been the result of the Winter of Discontent, where the country was crippled by numerous public sector strikes.[44]

By the time of the 1983 UK general election, Labour support was at a postwar low, partly due to the strong challenge by the recently formed SDP–Liberal Alliance. Despite this, the Daily Mirror remained loyal to Labour and urged its readers to vote for the party, then led by Michael Foot, condemning the Thatcher-led Tory government for its "waste of our nation",[43] as well as the rise in unemployment that Thatcher's Conservative government had seen in its first term in power largely due to monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation, although the government's previously low popularity had dramatically improved since the success of the Falklands conflict a year earlier.[45] However, the Conservatives were re-elected and Labour suffered its worst postwar general election result, only narrowly bettering the SDP–Liberal Alliance in terms of votes whilst winning considerably more seats.[43]

At the 1987 UK general election, the Daily Mirror remained loyal to Labour, led by Neil Kinnock, and urged its readers with the slogan "You know he's right, chuck her out."[43] By this stage, unemployment was falling and inflation had remained low for several years.[46] As a result, the Tories were re-elected for a third successive term, although Labour did cut the Tory majority slightly.[43] For the 1992 UK general election, the Daily Mirror continued to support Labour, still led by Neil Kinnock. By this stage, Thatcher had stepped down and the Tory government was now led by John Major.[43] The election was won by the Conservatives, although Labour managed to significantly cut the Tory majority to 21 seats compared to the triple-digit figure of the previous two elections, which led to a difficult term for Major. The outcome of this election had been far less predictable than any of the previous three elections, as opinion polls over the previous three years had shown both parties in the lead, although any Labour lead in the polls had been relatively narrow since the Conservative government's change of leader from Thatcher to Major in November 1990, in spite of the onset of the early 1990s recession which had pushed unemployment up again after several years of decline. Labour's credibility was helped by plans including extra National Health Service (NHS) funding and moving away from firm commitments on re-nationalisation to reverse the Conservative policy of privatisation, but its decision to be up-front about tax increases was seen as a key factor in its failure to win.[47]

By the time of the 1997 UK general election, support for the Labour Party, by then led by Tony Blair, in the opinion polls had exceeded that of support for the Conservative government led by John Major since late 1992, whose reduced popularity largely blamed on the failings of Black Wednesday in September of that year and it had failed to recover popularity in spite of a strong economic recovery and fall in unemployment. A reinvented New Labour had further improved its credibility under Blair by promising traditional Labour essentials including more funding for healthcare and education but also promising not to increase income tax and ending its commitment to the nationalisation of leading industries.[48] The Daily Mirror urged its readers that their country needed Blair, and to vote Labour.[43]

The 1997 election produced a Labour landslide that ended the party's 18-year exile from power, followed by two further wins in the 2001 and 2005 UK general elections. On 4 May 2010, the newspaper printed a picture of Conservative leader David Cameron with a giant red cross through his face. The headline read "How to stop him" in reference to the 2010 UK general election two days later, confirming the Daily Mirrors Labour allegiance. The election ended in Britain's first hung parliament since 1974 but Cameron still became prime minister within days as the Conservatives formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The Daily Mirror was the only leading national newspaper to remain loyal to Labour and Gordon Brown at a time when opinion polls showed the party on course for their worst election result since 1983.[49]

The newspaper was critical of the Liberal Democrats for forming the coalition which enabled the Conservatives to form a new government in 2010, and branded leader Nick Clegg as Pinickio (alluding to the lying fictional character Pinocchio)[50] for going back on numerous pre-election pledges. It has frequently referred to the party as the "Fib Dems"[51] or "Lib Dumbs".[52] The Daily Mirror endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[53] Also in 2016, the newspaper asked for Jeremy Corbyn's resignation "for the good of the party and of the country."[54] Despite this critical position, the Daily Mirror endorsed the Labour Party in the 2017 UK general election.[55] For the 2019 UK general election, the newspaper again endorsed Labour "to protect NHS, end poverty and for a kinder Britain."[56] The Daily Mirror threw its support behind the Labour Party for the 2024 UK general election, stating that "a Labour government is more crucial than ever for the new generation."[57]

Famous features

Blue issue

On 2 April 1996, the Daily Mirror was printed entirely on blue paper.[60] This was done as a marketing exercise with Pepsi-Cola, who on the same day had decided to relaunch its cans with a blue design instead of the traditional red and white logo.[61]

Libel, contempt of court, errors and criticism

Significant staff members

Editors

Source: Tabloid Nation[87]

Notable columnists

Notable former and current columnists of the Daily Mirror include:

Awards

The Daily Mirror won "Newspaper of the Year" in 2002 at the British Press Awards. It won "Scoop of the Year" in 2003 ("3am", 'Sven and Ulrika'), 2004 (Ryan Parry, 'Intruder at the Palace'), 2006 and 2007 (both Stephen Moyes).[88] The Mirror won "Team of the Year" in 2001 ('Railtrack'), 2002 ('War on the World: World against Terrorism'), 2003 ('Soham'), and 2006 ('London bombings'); and "Front Page of the Year" in 2007.[88] The Mirror also won the "Cudlipp Award" in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2010.[88]

See also

References

External links

Notes and References

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  6. Encyclopedia: The Mirror British newspaper . Encyclopedia Britannica. 26 December 2017.
  7. Daily Mirror No. 1 (2 November 1903) page 3
  8. [Albion (history journal)|Albion]
  9. Daily Mirror issue 72, 26 January 1904
  10. Daily Illustrated Mirror issue 74, 28 January 1904
  11. Daily Illustrated Mirror issue 92, 18 February 1904
  12. Daily Mirror issue 269, 13 September 1904
  13. Daily Mirror issue 1335, 8 February 1908
  14. Daily Mirror issue 4163, 26 February 1917
  15. Daily Mirror issue 4856, 19 May 1919
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  19. McKibbin, Ross. Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 406.
  20. Adrian Bingham, and Martin Conboy, "The Daily Mirror and the Creation of a Commercial Popular Language", Journalism Studies (2009) 19#5 pp 639-654.
  21. McKibbin, Ross. Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 506.
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  35. News: Daily Mirror statement in full . CNN . 13 May 2004 . https://web.archive.org/web/20041125053916/http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/13/iraq.abuse.statement/index.html . 25 November 2004 . 22 May 2010.
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  38. Web site: . Fool Me Twice . 12 November 2004 . 19 July 2009 .
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  41. News: Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror to merge: full statement . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/9299655/Daily-Mirror-and-Sunday-Mirror-to-merge-full-statement.html . 11 January 2022 . subscription . live . The Daily Telegraph . London . 30 May 2012 . 30 May 2012.
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  43. News: A century of Daily Mirror front pages . Daily Mirror . London . 20 April 2010.
  44. News: Politics 97 . BBC News . 3 May 1979.
  45. News: 1983: Thatcher triumphs again . BBC News . 5 April 2005.
  46. News: 1987: Thatcher's third victory . BBC News . 5 April 2005.
  47. News: 1992: Tories win again against odds . BBC News . 5 April 2005.
  48. News: 1997: Labour landslide ends Tory rule . BBC News . 15 April 2005.
  49. Web site: Which political parties do the newspapers support? . Supanet.
  50. News: Clegg Nose Day – Join our campaign to shame 'Pinickio' Nick Clegg . Daily Mirror . London . 13 January 2011.
  51. News: Security bill for Nick Clegg's Lib Dem conference is more than just coppers . Routledge . Paul . Daily Mirror . London . 4 March 2011.
  52. News: PMQs shows up the Lib Dumbs . Daily Mirror . London . 19 May 2010.
  53. News: Americans must vote Hillary Clinton for their own sake . 8 November 2016 . Daily Mirror . 7 November 2016.
  54. News: Voice of the Mirror . Jeremy Corbyn must quit now for his party and his country . 2 November 2021 . Daily Mirror . 27 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160627225727/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-must-quit-now-8298423 . 27 June 2016 . And that is why, regretfully, the Mirror today calls on him to step down for the good of the party and the country..
  55. News: Help Corbyn kick the Tories into touch - Voice of the Mirror . 22 April 2017 . Daily Mirror . London . 19 September 2018.
  56. News: Voice of the Mirror: Vote Labour to protect NHS, end poverty and for a kinder Britain . 10 December 2019 . Daily Mirror . London . 1 June 2021.
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  68. News: Fake abuse photos: Editor quits . https://web.archive.org/web/20041012123314/http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/14/iraq.abuse.uk/ . 12 October 2004 . 15 May 2004 . CNN.
  69. News: Caprice wins libel case over acting claims . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1464662/Caprice-wins-libel-case-over-acting-claims.html . 11 January 2022 . subscription . live . 3 October 2018 . The Daily Telegraph . London . 16 June 2004.
  70. News: Sir Andrew Green - an apology. Daily Mirror. 26 November 2007.
  71. News: GMTV Kate wins 'affair' libel award . . London . 10 April 2008 . 17 July 2009 .
  72. News: Shoe hat hoax trips up Mirror . 27 October 2019 . The Guardian . London . 23 September 2008.
  73. News: McCauley . Ciaran . Wikipedia hoaxes: From Breakdancing to Bilcholim . 27 October 2019 . BBC News . 3 October 2016.
  74. News: Mirror journalist caught by Wikipedia hoax . 27 October 2019 . Press Gazette . London . 23 September 2008.
  75. Web site: Wiki warning: sniff out the Omonia . 27 October 2019 . Sports Journalists' Association . 23 September 2008.
  76. News: Cristiano Ronaldo wins libel damages against Daily Mirror . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/cristiano-ronaldo/6533183/Cristiano-Ronaldo-wins-libel-damages-against-Daily-Mirror.html . 11 January 2022 . subscription . live . 3 October 2018 . The Daily Telegraph . 9 November 2009.
  77. News: Sun and Mirror in contempt case over Jo Yeates stories . BBC News . 12 May 2011 . 12 May 2011.
  78. News: Sun and Mirror accused of Jo Yeates contempt . BBC News . 5 July 2011 . 6 July 2011.
  79. News: Halliday . Josh . Sun and Mirror fined for contempt of court in Christopher Jefferies articles . 29 July 2011 . The Guardian . 29 July 2011.
  80. News: Ryanair settles defamation action against Daily Mirror out of court . 3 October 2018 . RTÉ News . Dublin . 25 October 2013.
  81. News: Boyle wins £54,650 in 'racism' libel case . 22 October 2012 . BBC News . 22 October 2012.
  82. News: Brits scared about pancake battles . 21 March 2017 . Gazeta.ru . 4 April 2017.
  83. News: Daily Mirror misleads with wrong pictures for article on football 'Ultras' in Russia . TASS . Moscow . 21 March 2017.
  84. Web site: Daily Mirror acknowledged incorrectly illustrated text about world Cup fans. 4 April 2017.
  85. News: Western tabloids condemned for 'humanising' NZ mosque attacker . 14 May 2022 . Al Jazeera . 17 March 2019.
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