Editing Daily Sketch

{{Short description|British national tabloid newspaper (1909–1971)}}
{{About|the newspaper published from 1909 to 1971|the magazine published from 1893 to 1959|The Sketch}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox newspaper
 |name = Daily Sketch
 |image = Daily Sketch front page, 9 June 1913.jpg
 |caption = ''Daily Sketch'' front page on 9 June 1913 mentioning the death of [[Emily Davison]].
 |type = [[Newspaper]]
 |format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
 |foundation = {{start date and age|1909}} in [[Manchester]]
 |founder = [[Edward Hulton]]
 |ceased publication  = {{end date and age| 1971|05|11}}; merged into the ''[[Daily Mail]]''
 |political = [[populism|Populist]], [[centre-right politics|centre-right]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]
| owner = [[Edward Hulton]] (1909–1920)<br />[[Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere|Daily Mirror Newspapers]] (1920–1925)<br />[[Allied Newspapers]]/Kemsley Newspapers (1925-1952)<br />[[Associated Newspapers]] (1952–1971)
 |sister newspapers = ''[[Sunday Graphic]]'' (1928–1960)
 |editor = 
}}
The '''''Daily Sketch''''' was a British national [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] [[newspaper]], founded in [[Manchester]] in 1909 by Sir [[Edward Hulton]], 1st Baronet. 

The ''Sketch'' was [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] in its politics and [[Populism|populist]] in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership.

==History==
In 1920, [[Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere|Lord Rothermere]]'s Daily Mirror Newspapers bought the ''Daily Sketch''. In 1925 Rothermere sold it to [[William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose|William]] and [[Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley|Gomer]] Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley). In 1926 it absorbed the ''[[The Graphic|Daily Graphic]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Amalgamation of 'Daily Graphic' and 'Daily Sketch' |work=[[The Times]]|page =4|date=16 October 1926}}</ref>

It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' [[Allied Newspapers]] from 1928<ref name="Griffiths">{{cite book|editor-link=Dennis Griffiths |editor-first=Dennis|editor-last=Griffiths |title=The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992 |location=London and Basingstoke |publisher=Macmillan |date=1992|page= 187}}</ref> (renamed '''Kemsley Newspapers''' in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''). From this point forward, its sister newspaper was the ''[[Sunday Graphic]]''.

In 1946, twenty years after it had taken over the ''Daily Graphic'', the latter name was revived<ref>{{cite news|title=A Graphic Sketch |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |page =2|date= 2 July 1946}}</ref> and the ''Daily Sketch'' name disappeared for a while.

In 1952, Kemsley decided to sell the paper to [[Associated Newspapers]], the owner of the ''[[Daily Mail]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,889586,00.html |title=The Press: Bigger Press Lord |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=22 December 1952}}</ref> which promptly revived the ''Daily Sketch'' name in 1953.<ref>{{cite news|title=Our London Correspondence |work=[[The Guardian|Manchester Guardian]] |page=4 |date=2 January 1953}}</ref> 

In 1954, an infamous cartoon, titled "Family Portrait?", was published in the paper, which mocked [[Billy Strachan]], a black British civil rights leader, for his [[Decolonization|anti-colonial]] and [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] beliefs.<ref name=":26">{{Cite book |last=Horsley |first=David |title=Billy Strachan 1921–1988 RAF Officer, Communist, Civil Rights Pioneer, Legal Administrator, Internationalist and Above All Caribbean Man |publisher=Caribbean Labour Solidarity |year=2019 |location=London |pages=23 |language=en |issn=2055-7035}}</ref> The cartoon depicted him with devil horns representing the Caribbean Labour Congress. His image was posed with images of [[Hewlett Johnson]] and [[Paul Robeson]], all of whom stood underneath a portrait of the then recently deceased [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[dictator]] [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref name=":26" />

The paper participated in the 1965 press campaign against the screening of the [[BBC]] film ''[[The War Game]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/warGame.htm |title=''The War Game'' |publisher=[[Peter Watkins]] |access-date= 2012-06-23}}</ref>

The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'', and on Tuesday, 11 May 1971, it closed and merged with the ''Daily Mail'', which had just switched to tabloid format.<ref>{{cite news|title=Britain's oldest tabloid closes|date=11 May 1971 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/11/newsid_2860000/2860297.stm|access-date=23 August 2013|publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>

==Editors==
{{Unreferenced section|date=May 2021}}
:1909: [[Jimmy Heddle]]
:1914: [[William Sugden Robinson]]
:1919: H. Lane
:1922: H. Gates
:1923: H. Lane
:1926: [[Ivor Halstead]]<ref>[[Rachael Low]], ''History of British Film'', Vol. 4 (2013), [https://books.google.com/books?id=6UbaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA196 p. 196]</ref> 
:1928: A. Curthoys
:1936: A. Sinclair
:1939: [[Sydney Carroll]]
:1942: [[Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley|Lionel Berry]]
:1943: [[A. Roland Thornton]] and M. Watts
:1944: [[A. Roland Thornton]]
:1947: N. Hamilton
:1948: [[Henry Clapp (Sketch editor)|Henry Clapp]]
:1953: [[Herbert Gunn]]
:1959: [[Colin Valdar]]
:1962: [[Howard French (UK journalist)|Howard French]]
:1969: [[David English (journalist)|David English]]
:1971: [[Louis Kirby]] (acting)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/44237/browse?type=dateissued 144 issues from 1915-1916] at The University of Pretoria

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