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51-600: The London Daily News was intended to be a "24-hour" paper challenging the local dominance of the Evening Standard . "For the city that never sleeps, the paper that never stops", ran the promotional slogan. The Standard ’s owners, Associated Newspapers , responded by reviving the Evening News at a lower price to squeeze the London Daily News out of the market. A price war ensued finishing with

102-649: A baronetcy on 12 July 1916, whereupon he took the title Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet of St Dunstan's , London. He received the GBE in 1917. Pearson was a close friend of the pioneer of the Scouting movement Baden-Powell , and supportive of his efforts in setting up the movement and publishing its magazine The Scout . When Pearson's scheme for publishing in Braille was faltering due to lack of funds, on 2 May 1914 Baden-Powell publicly requested that "all Scouts perform

153-717: A 'good turn' for The Scout magazine publisher Mr C. Arthur Pearson, in order to raise money for his scheme of publishing literature in Braille for the blind." In 1919, Pearson wrote the book Victory Over Blindness: How it Was Won by the Men of St Dunstan's . He founded the Greater London Fund for the Blind in 1921, funded by the establishment of its annual 'Geranium Day' appeal. Pearson died on 9 December 1921 when he drowned in his bath after knocking himself unconscious in

204-652: A 1908 operation, Pearson was progressively forced from 1910 onwards to relinquish his newspaper interests; the Daily Express eventually passed, in November 1916, under the control of the Canadian–British tycoon Sir Max Aitken, later Lord Beaverbrook . Through the British and Foreign Blind Association , Pearson published his Pearson's Easy Dictionary in Braille form in 1912. Later completely blind , Pearson

255-403: A cooperative relationship with Pearson's old employer, George Newnes Ltd , and as Pearson gradually gave up his publishing duties to due to his blindness, by 1914, Pearson had essentially become an imprint of Newnes. With Pearson's death, this arrangement was formalized, and in 1929, Newnes purchased all outstanding shares of Pearson's company. Decades after the founder's death, into the 1960s,

306-542: A daily to weekly print publication as it was unprofitable. The newspaper had dropped from about 70 to 30 pages in the preceding decade. The change was made by Lebedev under pressure by Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel, who has owned a 30% stake in the Evening Standard ' s parent company since 2018. On 14 June 2024, the newspaper announced it would eliminate 150 jobs. The redundancies included 70 editorial workers (out of 120), 40 office workers and 45 workers from

357-662: A fall. He was buried in Hampstead Cemetery after a service to which the Cabinet, the British and Norwegian royal families, and many institutes for the blind all sent official representatives. Two of his pallbearers were blind. He was survived by his wife, son and three daughters. In 1922, a biography, The Life of Sir Arthur Pearson , was written by Sidney Dark and published by Hodder & Stoughton . Pearson's publishing company, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. , had had

408-411: A high-profile campaign that backfired. In the 1960s, the paper was upstaged by The Evening News , which sold more than 1 million copies nightly. During the decade, the paper also began to publish the comic strip Modesty Blaise , which bolstered its sales throughout the 1970s. The Evening Standard ceased publishing on Saturdays on 30 November 1974, when it still produced six editions daily. In

459-570: A result. There were often considerable changes between editions in the front-page lead and the following news pages, including the Londoner's Diary , though features and reviews stayed the same. In January 2010, circulation was increased to 900,000. In May 2009, the newspaper launched a series of poster ads, each of which prominently featured the word "Sorry" in the paper's then-masthead font. These ads offered various apologies for past editorial approaches, such as "Sorry for losing touch". None of

510-411: A rise in circulation. By the end of the 19th century, the evening edition eclipsed its morning counterpart. Both The Standard and the Evening Standard were acquired by C. Arthur Pearson in 1904. In May 1915, Edward Hulton purchased the Evening Standard from Davison Dalziel . Dalziel had purchased both papers in 1910, and closed The Standard , the morning paper, in 1916. Hulton introduced

561-599: A scandal relating to war crimes in Sri Lanka when it revealed and confirmed the presence of British mercenaries of the secret KMS unit working with Sri Lankan troops, and the subsequent termination of this following the discovery of atrocities committed against the Tamil population. The KMS mercenaries walked out after complaining that the Sri Lankan Special Task Force "was running out of control and

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612-462: A tradition of providing arts coverage. Its best known former art critic, Brian Sewell , was known for his acerbic view of conceptual art , Britart and the Turner Prize and his views attracted controversy and criticism in the art world. He has been described as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic". During the 2008 London mayoral election , the newspaper – and particularly

663-562: A writer, and wrote a number of tourist guides to locations in Britain and Europe. Under the pseudonym of "Professor P. R. S. Foli", he wrote Handwriting as an Index to Character in 1902, as well as works on fortune-telling and dream interpretation . Pearson was a strong supporter of Joseph Chamberlain 's tariff-reform movement, and organised the Tariff Reform League in 1903, becoming its first chairman. In 1904 he purchased

714-400: Is printed in tabloid format , and also has an online edition. In October 2009, after being purchased by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev , the paper ended a 180-year history of paid circulation and multiple editions every day, and became a free newspaper publishing a single print edition every weekday, doubling its circulation as part of a change in its business plan. On 29 May 2024,

765-548: Is really a joke." After the London Daily News collapsed, The Evening Standard ' s publishers, Associated Newspapers, continued the Evening News for some months as a separate brand, aiming for a more downmarket readership than the Evening Standard before re-absorbing it into its sister publication and former rival. The London Daily News was the first home of the Alex cartoon, later published by The Independent and

816-594: The Daily Express . Pearson was born on 24 February 1866 in the village of Wookey , Somerset, a son of Arthur Cyril Pearson and Phillippa Massingberd Maxwell Lyte, who was a granddaughter of the hymn-writer and poet Henry Francis Lyte . He was educated at Winchester College in Hampshire. His father became rector of Drayton Parslow in Buckinghamshire. His first job was as a journalist working for

867-586: The Daily Telegraph . Maxwell admitted defeat on 25 July 1987 an hour after paying undisclosed damages to Associated Newspapers for accusing it of lying about the Evening Standard ' s circulation figures. Starting the London Daily News , which published four editions a day, had cost him $ 40 million (then about £24.96 million), Reuters estimated. His paper was “selling less than 100,000 copies, when minimum sales targets were 200,000 by this time", Reuters reported Maxwell as commenting. The paper exposed

918-509: The 2024 London mayoral election , the Evening Standard endorsed Labour candidate Sadiq Khan for Mayor of London. The Evening Standard later endorsed the Labour Party in the 2024 United Kingdom general election . On 14 December 2004, Associated Newspapers launched a Monday–Friday freesheet edition of the Evening Standard called Standard Lite to help boost circulation. This edition had 48 pages, compared with about 80 in

969-675: The Conservatives in the general election , saying that "the Conservatives are ready for power: they look like a government in waiting". On 5 May 2015, an editorial stated that the newspaper would again be supporting David Cameron and the Conservatives in the 2015 General Election , saying that the Conservatives have "shown themselves to be good for London". The newspaper also said "there may be good tactical reasons to vote Liberal Democrat". The Media Reform Coalition (MRC) and Goldsmiths, University of London considered that in

1020-487: The Evening Standard announced job cuts. By the end of 2019, the company reported a pre-tax loss of £13.6 million. In August 2020, the paper announced a further 115 job cuts in order to save the company. Before the COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020, the Evening Standard' s daily circulation was about 800,000. By mid-2024, it had dropped below 300,000. On 29 May 2024, the newspaper announced that it would go from

1071-631: The Evening Standard endorsed the Conservative Party. During the 2019 Conservative leadership election , the Evening Standard endorsed Boris Johnson . During the 2020 Labour leadership election , the Evening Standard endorsed Keir Starmer to become Labour leader and consequently Leader of the Opposition . The Evening Standard endorsed Liz Truss in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election . For

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1122-450: The London Daily News selling at 10p and the Evening News at 5p. Maxwell was dismissive when he heard about the cut-price Evening News . He told the BBC: "The Evening Standard and Lord Rothermere are so worried about their monopoly – which the London Daily News is finally breaking – and so scared about the huge demand for our paper, that they've brought out a cheapo Evening News , which

1173-574: The "Media Brand of the Year" and the "Grand Prix Gold" awards at the Media Week awards in October 2010. The judges said: "[ The Standard has] quite simply ... stunned the market. Not just for the act of going free, but because editorial quality has been maintained, circulation has almost trebled and advertisers have responded favourably. Here is a media brand restored to health." The Standard also won

1224-580: The 1960s, the paper's political editor Robert Carvel was granted a morning briefing by prime minister Harold Wilson and it had its own correspondents in Paris and Washington . In 1980, Express Newspapers merged the Standard with Associated Newspapers ' Evening News in a Joint Operating Agreement . The new paper was known as the New Standard until 1985, when Associated Newspapers bought out

1275-529: The 2016 elections , the Evening Standard favoured the Conservative Party, according to MRC chair Justin Schlosberg. There were almost twice as many positive headlines about the Conservative candidate, Zac Goldsmith , as for his Labour rival, Sadiq Khan , with stories exhibiting the strongest bias against Khan also being the most prominent. In the 2017 and 2019 United Kingdom general elections ,

1326-528: The London-based publisher George Newnes on Tit-Bits magazine. Within his first year he had impressed Newnes enough to be made his principal assistant. In December 1887, Pearson married Isobel Sarah Bennett, the daughter of Canon Frederick Bennett, of Maddington, Wiltshire , with whom he had three daughters. In 1897, Pearson married, as his second wife, Ethel , daughter of William John Fraser. Ethel, Lady Pearson, would be appointed Dame Commander of

1377-589: The Order of the British Empire (DBE). The couple had a son, Neville (birth registered in Farnham, Q1 1898), and three daughters. In 1890, after six years of working for Newnes, Pearson left to form his own publishing business and within three weeks had created the periodical journal Pearson's Weekly , the first issue of which sold a quarter of a million copies. A philanthropist, in 1892 he established

1428-517: The Russian businessman and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev , who in 2010 went on to own The Independent , agreed to acquire control of the Evening Standard for £1 for 64 per cent ownership. A few years earlier, 12 per cent of the paper had been sold to Justin Shaw and Geordie Greig . Associated Newspapers retained the remaining 24 per cent. In November 2009, it

1479-594: The central area, but later became available in the evening from its street distributors. With the sale of the Evening Standard , but not the London Lite , to Alexander Lebedev on 21 January 2009, the ownership links between the Standard and the Lite were broken. On Fridays, the newspaper includes a free glossy lifestyle magazine, ES (launched as the Evening Standard Magazine in 2009, ) and

1530-504: The charitable Fresh Air Fund, still in operation and now known as Pearson's Holiday Fund, to enable disadvantaged children to partake in outdoor activities. In 1898, he purchased the Morning Herald , and in 1900 merged it into his new creation, the halfpenny Daily Express . The Express was a departure from the papers of its time and created an immediate impact by carrying news instead of only advertisements on its front page. He

1581-623: The circulation was increased to 350,000 in September 2014. This has moved from more general articles to concentrate on glamour, with features on the rich, powerful and famous. On Wednesdays, some areas offer a free copy of the Homes & Property supplement, edited by Janice Morley, which includes London property listings and articles from lifestyle journalists including Barbara Chandler, Katie Law, and Alison Cork . A free entertainment guide supplement Metro Life , previously called Hot Tickets ,

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1632-432: The correspondent Andrew Gilligan – published articles in support of the Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson , including frequent front-page headlines condemning Labour opponent Ken Livingstone . This included the headline "Suicide bomb backer runs Ken's campaign". On 5 May 2010, the newspaper stated in an editorial that, having supported Labour under Tony Blair , the newspaper would be supporting David Cameron and

1683-684: The daily newspaper of the year award at the London Press Club Awards in May 2011. The Evening Standard launched a mobile app with US app developer Handmark in May 2010. The range of apps was updated in 2015. In March 2018, editor George Osborne initiated a redesign of the paper, which included dropping the "London" from its title in a signal of the paper's ambition to have greater national and international influence. The paper also introduced more colourful "signposting" for different sections such as news, comment, and business, as it

1734-400: The explorer and adventurer Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard to Patagonia to investigate dramatic reports of a giant hairy mammal inhabiting the forests, and conjectured to be a giant ground sloth , long since extinct. Hesketh-Prichard's reports from 5,000 miles away gripped readers of The Express , despite his finding no trace of the creature. During this same period, Pearson was also active as

1785-466: The gossip column Londoner's Diary , originally billed as "a column written by gentlemen for gentlemen". In 1923, Lord Beaverbrook , owner of the Daily Express , bought Hulton's newspapers, although he sold them shortly thereafter to the Daily Mail ' s owner Lord Rothermere , with the exception of the Standard . It became a staunchly Conservative paper, harshly attacking Labour in 1945 in

1836-409: The main paper, which also had a supplement on most days. In August 2006, the freesheet was relaunched as London Lite . It was designed to be especially attractive to younger female readers and featured a wide range of lifestyle articles, but less news and business news than the main paper. It was initially available only between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at Evening Standard vendors and in

1887-552: The new name of "The London Standard". From July 2020 to October 2021, the newspaper's editor was Emily Sheffield , sister of Samantha Cameron , who took over from the former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne , who became editor-in-chief. As editor he had replaced Sarah Sands who, in turn, had replaced Geordie Greig following his departure to The Mail on Sunday in March 2012. Veronica Wadley

1938-423: The newspaper announced that it would reduce print publication to once weekly, after nearly 200 years of daily publication, as it had become unprofitable. Daily publication ended on 19 September 2024. The first weekly edition was published on 26 September 2024 under the new name of The London Standard . The newspaper was founded by barrister Stanley Lees Giffard on 21 May 1827 as The Standard . The early owner of

1989-426: The occasion by giving away 650,000 free copies on the day, and refreshed its sports coverage. After a long history of paid circulation, on 12 October 2009, the Standard became a free newspaper, with free circulation of 700,000, limited to central London. In February 2010, a paid-for circulation version became available in suburban areas of London for 20p (although many places sell it for 50p). The newspaper won

2040-622: The paper was Charles Baldwin. Under the ownership of James Johnstone , The Standard became a morning paper from 29 June 1857. The Evening Standard was published from 11 June 1859. The Standard gained eminence for its detailed foreign news, notably its reporting of events of the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, all contributing to

2091-405: The paper's printing and distribution operations at Broxbourne . Lebedev proposed to make statutory minimum payments plus £1,000, capped at £21,000, to those made redundant . On 29 July 2024, the last Friday and Monday editions had been printed, and on Thursday 19 September 2024 the last daily format edition was printed. The weekly edition was published on Thursdays from 26 September 2024 under

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2142-476: The posters mentioned the Evening Standard by name, although they featured the paper's Eros logo. Ex-editor Veronica Wadley criticised the " Pravda -style" campaign saying it humiliated the paper's staff and insulted its readers. The campaign was designed by McCann Erickson . Also in May 2009, the paper relaunched as the London Evening Standard with a new layout and masthead, marking

2193-414: The remaining stake, turning it into The Standard . In 1987 the Evening News was briefly revived to compete with Robert Maxwell 's London Daily News , but was reabsorbed into The Standard later that year, after the collapse of Maxwell's paper. In 1988 the Evening Standard included the by-line "Incorporating the 'Evening News ' ", which remained until the paper's sale in 2009. On 21 January 2009,

2244-652: The struggling The Standard and its sister paper the Evening Standard for £ 700,000 from the Johnstone family. He merged the Evening Standard with his St James's Gazette and changed the Conservative stance of both papers into a pro- Liberal one, but was unsuccessful in arresting the slide in sales and in 1910 sold them to the MP Sir Davison Dalziel , and Sir Alexander Henderson . Beginning to lose his sight due to glaucoma despite

2295-427: Was announced that the London Evening Standard would drop its morning "News Extra" edition from 4 January 2010. From then on, the first edition was the "West End Final", available from 2 pm. One edition of 600,000 copies would be printed starting at 12:30 pm, ending 5.30 am starts for journalists and the previous deadline of 7 am for the first edition. Twenty people were expected to lose their jobs as

2346-717: Was indiscriminately killing and torturing Tamil civilians". Human Rights Lawyer Karen Parker cited the news article in one of her NGO interventions criticising the Government of Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Commission . London Evening Standard The London Standard , formerly the Evening Standard (1904–2024) and originally The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established regional newspaper published weekly and distributed free of charge in London , England. It

2397-1022: Was made president of the National Institution for the Blind in 1914, raising its income from £8,000 to £360,000 in only eight years. On 29 January 1915, he cofounded The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee (later renamed St Dunstan's and now known as Blind Veterans UK ), for soldiers blinded by gas attack or trauma during the First World War . Its goal, radical for the times, was to provide vocational training rather than charity for invalided servicemen, and thus to enable them to carry out independent and productive lives. Not only were blinded soldiers trained in work such as basket weaving or massage, but also in social skills such as dancing, braille reading or sports to give them back self-confidence. Upon releasing them, they were gifted little tokens of independence such as braille watches. Pearson's dedication to this work led to his receiving

2448-423: Was noted by Osborne that it had not been "easy" to find them inside the paper previously. The masthead was also redesigned with a new font, and emojis were added to the paper's five-day weather forecast. In May 2018, James Cusick of openDemocracy alleged the newspaper had been providing favourable news coverage to companies, including Uber and Google , in exchange for financial sponsorship. In June 2019,

2499-400: Was published on Thursdays from September 2002 to September 2005. This was a "what's-on" guide with listings of cinemas and theatres in and around London. Editors, with their year of appointment, have been: Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet , (24 February 1866 – 9 December 1921), was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, who founded

2550-525: Was successful in establishing papers in provincial locations such as the Birmingham Daily Gazette . He came into direct competition with the Daily Mail and in the resulting commercial fight almost took control of The Times , being nominated as its manager, but the deal fell through. In 1898, Pearson founded The Royal Magazine , a monthly literary magazine which remained in publication until 1939. In 1900 Pearson despatched

2601-621: Was the newspaper's editor between 2002 and 2009. Max Hastings was editor from 1996 until he retired in 2002. The Evening Standard , a regional newspaper, emphasises London-centred news (especially in its features pages), covering building developments, property prices, traffic schemes, politics, the congestion charge and, in the Londoner's Diary page, gossip on the social scene, and also covers significant national and international news. It also occasionally runs campaigns on London issues that national newspapers do not cover in detail. It has

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