Editing Lloyd's List

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'''''Lloyd's List''''' is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Publishing - Britannica Library|url=https://library.eb.co.uk/?target=%2Flevels%2Fadult%2Farticle%2Fhistory-of-publishing%2F109461|access-date=2022-01-05|website=library.eb.co.uk}}</ref> It was published daily until 2013 (when the final print issue, number 60,850, was published), and is now published digitally.

Also known simply as ''The List'', it was begun by Edward Lloyd, the proprietor of [[Lloyd's Coffee House]], as a source of information for merchants' agents and insurance underwriters who met regularly in his establishment on [[Lombard Street, London|Lombard Street]] to negotiate insurance coverage for trading vessels.<ref>[[John J.  McCusker]], "The Early History of ‘Lloyd's List’."</ref> It continues to provide this information in addition to [[marine insurance]], offshore energy, logistics, market data, research, global trade and law information, and shipping news.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lloydslist.com/|title=Home :: Lloyd's List}}</ref>

==History==
The earliest form of ''Lloyd's List'' was estimated by some to have begun by 1692. One historian, Michael Palmer, wrote that: "No later than January 1692, Lloyd began publishing a weekly newsletter, ‘Ships Arrived at and Departed from several Ports of England, as I have Account of them in London... [and] An Account of what English Shipping and Foreign Ships for England, I hear of in Foreign Ports’".<ref>{{citation | publisher = Mariners-L | place = UK | url = http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/ResLloydsList.html | title = Lloyd's List}}.</ref> Around that time, ''Lloyd’s News'' was published three times a week with no particular emphasis on shipping from 1696 to 1697.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} However, claims that ''Lloyd's List'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the world are disputed. The [[World Association of Newspapers]] lists several earlier, extant titles.<ref>{{citation|publisher=WAN Press |url=http://www.wan-press.org/article2823.html |title=Oldest newspapers still in circulation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040107070325/http://www.wan-press.org/article2823.html |archive-date=7 January 2004 }}.</ref>

Thomas Jemson inherited Lloyd's Coffee House in 1727 and founded the ''Lloyd's List'' that is known today when he launched a weekly shipping intelligence publication.  Publication was weekly until March 1735, then twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays, according to Palmer.{{fact|date=March 2021}}
 
In 1769, the coffee house moved to Pope's Head Alley and from there, the New ''Lloyd’s List'' began, according to Lloyd's Register.{{fact|date=March 2021}} The paper was published every day except Sundays from 1 July 1837. In July 1884, ''Lloyd's List'' merged with the ''Shipping and Mercantile Gazette''.

''Lloyd's List'' has spawned several spin-off titles, including sister title ''Insurance Day''.

In 2009, ''Lloyd's List'' went through a major re-design that encompassed both the masthead and the newspaper itself. Between 2011 and 2017, a ''Lloyd’s List'' operated a mobile [[Applications software|app]].<ref>{{cite web|title=New App for World's Longest Published Business Newspaper|url=http://informa.com/media/press-releases-news/latest-news/new-app-for-worlds-longest-published-business-newspaper/|website=Informa.com|access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> Beginning in 2013, ''Lloyd's List'' was published in digital format only, as it was found that fewer than 2% of customers used the print version.<ref name="digital">{{cite web |url=https://www.lloydslist.com/ll/incoming/article429827.ece |title=Lloyd's List set to become a totally digital service on 20 December 2013 |newspaper=- Lloyd's List |date=25 September 2013  |access-date= 7 May 2016}}</ref>

In 2022, [[Informa]] sold ''Lloyd's List'' to [[Montagu Private Equity]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/business/world-famous-lloyd-s-list-sold-by-informa-as-part-of-ps385-million-deal-b1016619.html|title=World famous Lloyd's List sold by Informa as part of £385 million deal|first=Mark|last=Banham|date=4 August 2022|website=Evening Standard}}</ref> The business was then reorganised as Maritime Insights & Intelligence Limited.

== References ==
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==Further reading==
* Cameron, Alan, and Roy Farndon. ''Scenes from sea and city: Lloyd's list 1734-1984'' (Lloyd's List, 1984), 250th. special anniversary supplement.
* McCusker, John J. "The Early History of ‘Lloyd's List’." ''Historical Research'' 64#155 (1991): 427-431.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Lloyd's List}}
*[https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com Official website]
*[http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/ResLloydsList.html Michael Palmer's ''Lloyd's List'' history page]
*[http://www.maritimearchives.co.uk/lloyds-list.html ''Lloyd's List'' 1741-1826]

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