Daily Herald

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The Daily Herald was a British daily newspaper known for its left-wing, pro-labour stance and mass working-class readership during much of the 20th century.

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Daily Herald canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British newspaper
daily newspaper
newspaper
affiliation Labour movement
associatedWith Labour Party (UK)
trade union movement
circulation over 2 million copies at peak
circulationRank one of the highest-circulation British dailies in the interwar period
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
editor George Lansbury
H. G. (Hugh) Simmonds
Percy Cudlipp
endTime 1964
format broadsheet
foundedBy Labour movement activists
hasGenre tabloid-style popular journalism (content style)
headquartersLocation London, England
surface form: London
ideology social democracy
language English
locatedIn London, England
surface form: London
mediaType print
notableFor coverage of labour and trade union issues
mass working-class readership
strong support for the Labour Party
ownedBy International Publishing Corporation
Odhams Press
Trades Union Congress
surface form: Trades Union Congress (part-share, historically)
politicalAlignment left-wing
pro-Labour
predecessor The Herald
printType mass-circulation newspaper
publicationFrequency daily
publisher Odhams Press
replacedBy The Sun
startTime 1912
status defunct
subject labour relations
politics
social issues
trade unions
successor The Sun
targetAudience working-class readership

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Michael Foot employer Daily Herald
The Sun predecessor Daily Herald