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Daily Sketch

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Type
  
Newspaper

Editor
  
Various

Ceased publication
  
1971

Format
  
Tabloid

Founded
  
1909

Political alignment
  
Populist, centre-right, Conservative Party

The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.

It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers but in 1925 Rothermere offloaded it to William and Gomer Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley).

It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' Allied Newspapers from 1928 (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on the Daily Telegraph). In 1946 it was merged with the Daily Graphic. In 1952 Kemsley decided to sell the paper to Associated Newspapers, the owner of the Daily Mail, who promptly revived the Daily Sketch name in 1953. The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the Daily Mirror, and in 1971 it was closed and merged with the Daily Mail.

The Sketch was Conservative in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership. In some ways much of the more populist element of today's Daily Mail was inherited from the Sketch: before the merger, the more serious Mail, then and for a long time afterwards a broadsheet, was also right-wing. The Sketch notably launched a moral panic over Daniel Farson's 1960 television documentary Living for Kicks, a portrait of British teenage life at the time, which led to a war of words between the Sketch and the Daily Mirror. It also participated in the press campaign against the screening of the BBC film The War Game.

1909: Jimmy Heddle 1914: William Sugden Robinson 1919: H. Lane 1922: H. Gates 1923: H. Lane 1928: A. Curthoys 1936: A. Sinclair 1939: Sydney Carroll 1942: Lionel Berry 1943: A. Roland Thornton and M. Watts 1944: A. Roland Thornton 1947: N. Hamilton 1948: Henry Clapp 1953: Herbert Gunn 1959: Colin Valdar 1962: Howard French 1969: David English 1971: Louis Kirby (acting)

References

Daily Sketch Wikipedia