Manchester
Newspapers & Journals of the Northwest Region of England
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Manchester and the Surrounding Region
The Guardian &
The Manchester Evening News
Manchester
always was, and still is, the home to these two newspapers - The
Guardian, a great national daily and the Manchester Evening News,
the biggest evening regional newspaper in Britain.
When the original Manchester Guardian was first published
in 1821, in reaction to the Peterloo
Massacre, it aimed at being a local voice, with a distinct
liberal conscience and policies - it could not have expected to
have become one of Britain's 4 "heavyweights" - a respected broadsheet
with a long unbroken tradition of reportage. It was more literate,
more scholarly and more influential than any other of its contemporaries.
Its editor, C.P.
Scott, it is said "made righteousness more readable".
It was Scott who had sent John Masefield (later to become poet
laureate) to Ireland to cover the Easter Rising in Dublin, and
Arthur Ramsome to Russia to cover the Revolution of October 1917.
Its desks spawned other great journalist talents - like the late
Northern Editor and broadcaster Brian
Redhead.
Even when
the printing of the Guardian moved to London, and the "Manchester"
was dropped from its masthead, it still continued to be a Manchester
paper - now published in London and Manchester.
The Manchester
Evening News, founded in 1868, like the Guardian, was owned
by the Scott Trust, and found its readership throughout the wider
north-west of England, as far as Merseyside in the west, as the
Lake
District in the North, Stoke in the South and the Pennines
in the east. It is still printed in Trafford Park, along with
the Daily Telegraph. Its first edition, around lunchtime, is still
the first port of call for its classified section, and it remains
the best place to find accommodation anywhere in Greater Manchester.
The Manchester
Evening News Limited
1 Scott Place, Hardman Street,
Manchester M3 3RN. Tel: 0161-832 7200. - - and at: Baltimore House, 50 Kansas Avenue, Salford M5.
All contact
details at www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester
has been the birthplace and home of many great national and regional
newspapers.
The Daily
Mail was the first popular daily newspaper in Britain. In
1896, Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, its owner, decided
it should be printed in the north as well as in London, and in
1898, the Mail's office opened in Deansgate, Manchester, with
a circulation of over 1million readers.
In 1926,
The Daily Express followed and the Daily News & Leader
came in 1928 to set up premises in Derby Street, Cheetham Hill.
It changed its name in 1930 to the News Chronicle - now sadly
defunct.
The Daily
Herald moved to Oxford Street in Manchester also in 1930.
In 1872, Ned
Hulton, who had been sacked from The Guardian for printing pirate
news-sheets, began to publish The Sporting Chronicle, the
first of a huge empire which he established in Manchester, including
The Sunday Chronicle in 1885, and The Evening Chronicle
in 1897 in direct competition to the Manchester Evening News -
a battle which, though waged successfully for over 60 years, in
the long run, he failed to win.
In 1900 he
made a bid to take on the bigger daily newspapers, bringing out
The Daily Dispatch, which eventually had a circulation
of some 500,000.
Hulton's new
premises in Withy Grove in the very heart of the city became the
biggest printing house in Europe, and continued to print right
into the late 1980s. The remains of this empire, and later of
Robert Maxwell's vast newspaper business exist still as the newly
refurbished Printworks
entertainment and leisure complex in Withy Grove.
Eventually,
all newspaper printing moved out of the city centre as a result
of rising and prohibitive costs and lack of room for expansion.
Many moved to London, and those that remained have moved out to
Trafford Park. Today,
the Daily Telegraph is still printed in Manchester, now
in new purpose built premises in Trafford Park. Mirror Group newspapers,
including the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday
Times are printed in a new multi-million pound printing complex
in Hollinwood near Oldham.
Regional Newspapers,
Publishers & Magazines of Greater Manchester
These
are smaller circulation and regional newspaper publishers, ethnic,
specialist or minority publications, or publications with limited
circulation within the districts which they serve.
