Editing Daily Express (section)

{{short description|British middle market newspaper}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Daily Express
| motto = ''The paper that stands for real values''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/inside-story-all-the-slogans-fit-to-print-6095145.html|title=Inside Story: All the slogans fit to print|author=Gillis, Richard|date=2006-07-17|work=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=2024-08-09}}</ref>
| logo = [[File:Daily Express masthead.svg|frameless|class=skin-invert]]
| image = Daily Express 2009-01-10.jpg
| caption = Front page, 19 November 2011
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Tabloid newspaper|Tabloid]]
| foundation = {{nowrap|{{start date and age|1900|04|24|df=yes}}}}
| owners = [[Reach plc]]
| political = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]<br>[[Right-wing politics]]{{refn|<ref>{{cite news |last= Mayhew |first= Freddy |date= 6 November 2018 |title= Ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre's Society of Editors' Conference 2018 speech in full |url= https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/ex-daily-mail-editor-paul-dacres-society-of-editors-conference-2018-speech-in-full/ |work= Press Gazette |access-date= 29 December 2023 |archive-date= 30 December 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231230000539/https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/ex-daily-mail-editor-paul-dacres-society-of-editors-conference-2018-speech-in-full/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date= 24 May 2018 |title= Foreign firms are taking over Britain's railways |url= https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/05/24/foreign-firms-are-taking-over-britains-railways |newspaper= The Economist |access-date= 29 December 2023 |archive-date= 30 December 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231230000539/https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/05/24/foreign-firms-are-taking-over-britains-railways |url-status= live }}</ref>}}
| headquarters = 1 Canada Square, London, E14 United Kingdom
| editor = Tom Hunt
| issn = 0307-0174
| oclc = 173337077
| website = {{URL|express.co.uk}}<br/> {{URL|the-express.com}}
| circulation = 120,388
| circulation_date = March 2025
| circulation_ref = <ref name="abc">{{cite web |title=Daily Express |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/574 |publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |date=12 December 2023 |access-date=25 December 2023 |archive-date=11 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211130701/https://www.abc.org.uk/product/574 |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}
{{Conservatism UK|Media}}

The '''''Daily Express''''' is a national daily United Kingdom [[middle-market newspaper]]<ref name="format">{{cite web|title=Middle Market Newspapers|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100156316|access-date=16 August 2022|archive-date=17 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817102348/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100156316|url-status=live}}</ref> printed in [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid format]]. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher [[Reach plc]]. It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by [[Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet|Sir Arthur Pearson]]. Its [[sister paper]], the '''''Sunday Express''''', was launched in 1918. In June 2022, it had an average daily circulation of 201,608.<ref name="circ">{{cite web |last1=Tobitt |first1=Charlotte |last2=Majid |first2=Aisha |title=National press ABCs: Financial Times and Metro only newspapers with YoY growth in June |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/most-popular-newspapers-uk-abc-monthly-circulation-figures/ |work=Press Gazette |location=London |date=2 August 2022 |access-date=16 August 2022 |archive-date=4 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404082725/https://pressgazette.co.uk/most-popular-newspapers-uk-abc-monthly-circulation-figures/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Under the ownership of [[Max Aitken|Lord Beaverbrook]], the ''Express'' rose to become the newspaper with the largest circulation in the world, going from 2 million in the 1930s to 4 million in the 1940s.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Mcdowall |first=Duncan |title=Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/max-aitken-lord-beaverbrook |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |edition=online |date=10 April 2017 |access-date=23 March 2021 |archive-date=15 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215104235/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/max-aitken-lord-beaverbrook |url-status=live }}</ref> It was acquired by [[Richard Desmond]]'s company [[Northern & Shell]] in 2000. [[Hugh Whittow]] was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. In February 2018 Trinity Mirror acquired the ''Daily Express'', and other publishing assets of Northern & Shell, in a deal worth £126.7&nbsp;million. To coincide with the purchase the Trinity Mirror group changed the name of the company to ''Reach''.<ref name="buy express titles">{{cite news |title=Daily Mirror owner to buy Express titles |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42991304 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=9 February 2018 |access-date=9 February 2018 |archive-date=28 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828095554/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42991304 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="name change">{{cite news |title=Daily Mirror owner changes name to Reach |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43285531 |publisher=BBC News |date=5 March 2018 |access-date=6 September 2020 |archive-date=12 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022737/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43285531 |url-status=live }}</ref> Hugh Whittow resigned as editor and [[Gary Jones (journalist)|Gary Jones]] took over as editor-in-chief soon after the purchase.<ref name="editors">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/28/editors-of-daily-express-and-daily-star-quit-on-eve-of-200m-takeover |title=Editors of Daily Express and Daily Star quit in wake of £200m takeover |first=Mark |last=Sweney |date=28 February 2018 |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-date=16 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516223221/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/28/editors-of-daily-express-and-daily-star-quit-on-eve-of-200m-takeover |url-status=live }}</ref>

The paper's editorial stances have often been seen as aligned to [[Euroscepticism]] and supportive of the [[UK Independence Party]] (UKIP), and other [[right-wing]] factions including the [[European Research Group]] (ERG) of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Hall |first=Macer |url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/570952/Express-Newspapers-Chairman-Richard-Desmond-gives-1-3m-to-Ukip |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20160320030321/http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/570952/Express-Newspapers-Chairman-Richard-Desmond-gives-1-3m-to-Ukip |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 March 2016 |title=Express Newspapers Chairman Richard Desmond gives £1.3m to Ukip |work=Daily Express |location=London |date=17 April 2015 |access-date=18 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32340976 |title=Express owner Richard Desmond gives UKIP £1m |publisher=BBC News |date=16 April 2015 |access-date=18 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204154831/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32340976 |archive-date=4 February 2016}}</ref>