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{{Infobox Newspaper
| name = Daily Mail
| image = [[Image:DailyMailFrontPage.jpg|225px|centre|A Daily Mail front page from August 2007]]
| caption = ''Daily Mail'' front page
| type = Daily [[newspaper]]
| format = [[Tabloid]]
| foundation = 1896
| ceased publication =
| price = [[Pound sterling|£]]0.50 <small>(Monday-Friday)</small><br/>[[Pound sterling|£]]0.70 <small>(Saturday)</small>
| owners = [[Daily Mail and General Trust]]
| publisher = [[Associated Newspapers Ltd]]
| editor = [[Paul Dacre]]
| chiefeditor =
| assoceditor =
| staff =
| language = [[English language|English]]
| political = [[Conservative]]/[[Right-Wing]]
| circulation = 2,353,807<ref name="Circulation">{{cite web|year = 2007|url = http://www.abc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=nav/abc&noc=y|title = Summary Report, Daily Mail - 01-Oct-2007 to 28-Oct-2007|publisher = Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)|accessdate = 2007-11-22}}</ref><br /><small>(October 2007)</small>
| headquarters = 2 [[Northcliffe House]], [[London]]
| oclc =
| ISSN = 0307-7578
| website = [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ Mail Online]
}}
The '''''Daily Mail''''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] newspaper, currently published in a [[tabloid newspaper|tabloid]] format. First published in 1896 by [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe|Lord Northcliffe]], it is Britain's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]''. Its sister paper, '''''[[The Mail on Sunday]]''''' was launched in 1982. An [[Irish Daily Mail|Irish version of the paper]] was launched on [[6 February]] [[2006]] and a [[Polish language|Polish]] version of the paper in 2007. The ''Daily Mail'' was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at what is now considered the [[middle-market]] and the first to sell 1 million copies a day.<ref name="1millionaday">{{cite web|year = |url = http://www.eurocosm.com/Application/Products/Original-newspapers/newspaper-history-GB.asp|title = Milestones in 20th Century Newspaper history in Britain|publisher = Eurocosm UK|accessdate = 2008-04-12}}</ref>
The ''Mail'' was originally a [[broadsheet]], but switched to its current compact format<ref>[http://www.associatednewspapers.com/dailymail.htm Associated Newspapers Ltd - Daily Mail<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> on [[3 May]] [[1971]], the 75th anniversary of its founding. On this date it also absorbed the ''[[Daily Sketch]]'', which had previously been published as a tabloid by the same company. Its long-standing rival, the ''[[Daily Express]]'', has a broadly similar political stance and target readership, but nowadays sells one-third the number of copies. The publisher of the ''Mail'', the [[Daily Mail and General Trust]] is currently a [[FTSE 100]] company, and the paper has a circulation of more than two million, giving it one of the largest [[Newspaper circulation|circulation]]s of any [[English language]] daily newspaper, and the twelfth highest of any newspaper in the world.<ref name="12inworld">{{cite web|year = 2005|url = http://www.wan-press.org/article2825.html|title = World’s 100 Largest Newspapers|publisher = World Association of Newspapers|accessdate = 2008-04-12}}</ref>
Circulation figures according to the [[Audit Bureau of Circulations]], in October 2007 show gross sales of 2,400,143 for the ''Daily Mail'', compared with 789,867 for the ''[[Daily Express]]''. This is an increase of almost a third over the sales figures for the ''Daily Mail'' 25 years ago, when it sold 1.87 million copies a day. By comparison, the ''Daily Express'' was selling over 2 million copies a day, so its sales have reduced by 60% over the same period. According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of ''Daily Mail'' readers voted for the Conservative party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats.<ref name="MORI survey">{{cite web|url=http://www.ipsos-mori.com/polls/2004/voting-by-readership.shtml|title=MORI survey of newspaper readers|accessdate=2007-12-21}}</ref>
==History==
===Early history===
The ''Daily Mail'', devised by [[Alfred Harmsworth]] (later Lord Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later [[Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere|Lord Rothermere]]), was first published on [[4 May]], [[1896]] and was an immediate success. It cost a halfpenny at a time when other London dailies cost one penny, and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals. Soon after its launch it had more than half a million readers.
Controlled editorially by Alfred, with Harold running the business side of the operation, the ''Mail'' from the start adopted a [[Imperialism|imperialist]] political stance, taking a strongly patriotic line in the [[Second Boer War]], leading to claims that it was not reporting the issues of the day objectively.{{Who|date=March 2008}} From the beginning, the ''Mail'' also set out to entertain its readers with human interest stories, serials, features and competitions (which were also the main means by which the Harmsworths promoted the paper).
In 1906, the paper offered £1,000 for the first flight across the [[English Channel]], and £10,000 for the first flight from [[London]] to [[Manchester]]. ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine thought the idea preposterous and offered £10,000 for the first flight to [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], but by 1910 both the ''Mail'''s prizes had been won. (For full list see [[Daily Mail aviation prizes]].)
In 1908, the ''Daily Mail'' began the [[Ideal Home Exhibition]], which it still runs today.
The paper was accused of warmongering before the outbreak of [[World War I]], when it reported that [[Germany]] was planning to crush the [[British Empire]]. Northcliffe created controversy by advocating [[conscription]] when the war broke out.{{Clarifyme|date=March 2008}} On [[21 May]], [[1915]], Northcliffe wrote a blistering attack on [[Horatio Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]], the [[Secretary of State for War]]. Kitchener was considered a national hero, and overnight the paper's circulation dropped from 1,386,000 to 238,000. 1,500 members of the [[London Stock Exchange]] ceremonially burned the unsold copies and launched a boycott against the Harmsworth Press. Prime Minister [[H. H. Asquith]] accused the paper of being disloyal to the country.
When Kitchener died, the ''Mail'' reported it as a great stroke of luck for the British Empire. The paper then campaigned against Asquith, who resigned on [[5 December]], [[1916]]. His successor, [[David Lloyd George]], asked Northcliffe to be in his cabinet, hoping it would prevent him from criticising the government. Northcliffe declined.
===Inter-war period===
In 1922, when Lord Northcliffe died, [[Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere|Lord Rothermere]] took full control of the paper.
In 1924 the ''Daily Mail'' published the forged [[Zinoviev Letter]] which indicated that British [[Communists]] were planning violent [[revolution]]. It was widely believed that this was a significant factor in the defeat of [[Ramsay MacDonald]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] in the [[United Kingdom general election, 1924|1924 general election]], held four days later. (In some Labour circles, e.g. by former Labour leader [[Michael Foot]], the paper is often referred to as 'The Forgers' Gazette').
====Support for Nazism and Fascism====
In early 1934, Rothermere and the ''Mail'' were sympathetic to [[Oswald Mosley]] and the [[British Union of Fascists]]. Rothermere wrote an article, "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", in January 1934, in which he praised Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine"<ref>[http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/dictionary/dict_h1.php#hurrah "Hurrah for the Blackshirts"]</ref>, though after the violence of the 1934 Olympia meeting involving the BUF, the ''Mail'' withdrew its support for Mosley.
Rothermere was a friend and supporter of both [[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Adolf Hitler]], which influenced the ''Mail'''s political stance towards them up to 1939. During this period, it was the only British newspaper consistently to support the German [[Nazism|Nazi]] Party.<ref>{{cite book|last=Griffiths|first=Richard|title=Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany, 1933-9|year=1980|publisher=Constable|location=London|id=ISBN 0-09-463460-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=S. J.|title=The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere and the Daily Mail|year=1996|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|location=London|id=ISBN 0-297-81653-5}}</ref> Rothermere visited and corresponded with Hitler on many occasions. On [[1 October]], [[1938]], Rothermere sent Hitler a telegram in support of Germany's invasion of the Sudetenland, and expressing the hope that 'Adolf the Great' would become a popular figure in Britain.
In 1937, the ''Mail'''s chief war correspondent, George Ward Price, to whom Mussolini once personally wrote in support of him and the newspaper, published a book, ''I Know These Dictators'', in defence of Hitler and Mussolini.
Rothermere and the ''Mail'' supported [[Neville Chamberlain]]'s policy of [[appeasement]], particularly during the events leading up to the [[Munich Agreement]]. However, after the Nazi invasion of [[Prague]] in 1939, the ''Mail'' changed position and urged Chamberlain to prepare for war, not least, perhaps, because on account of its stance it had been threatened with closure by the British Government.{{Fact|date=October 2007}}
The paper continues to be referred to on occasion by critics as the ''Daily Heil'', referring to its conservative stance and its past support for Mosley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/12/03/where_have_all_the_goals_gone.html|title=Where Have All The Goals Gone?|publisher=[[The Guardian]]|work=The Guardian Sport|accessdate=2007-01-09}}</ref>
===Recent history===
The ''Daily Mail'' was transformed by its editor of the seventies and eighties, Sir [[David English (journalist)|David English]]. Sir David began his Fleet Street career in 1951, joining ''[[Daily Mirror|The Daily Mirror]]'' before moving to ''The Daily Sketch'', where he became features editor. It was the ''Sketch'' which brought him his first editorship, from 1969 to 1971. That year the ''Sketch'' was closed and he moved to take over the top job at the ''Mail'', where he was to remain for more than 20 years. English transformed it from a struggling rival selling two million copies fewer than the ''Daily Express'' to a formidable journalistic powerhouse, which soared dramatically in popularity.
After 20 years perfecting the ''Mail'', Sir David English became editor-in-chief and chairman of Associated Newspapers in 1992.
The paper enjoyed a period of journalistic success in the 1980s, employing some of the most inventive writers in old [[Fleet Street]] including the gossip columnist [[Nigel Dempster]], Lynda Lee Potter and sportswriter [[Ian Wooldridge]] (who unlike some of his colleagues - the paper generally did not support sporting boycotts of white-minority-ruled [[South Africa]] - strongly opposed [[Apartheid]]). In 1982, a Sunday title, the '''''Mail on Sunday''''' was launched (the ''[[Sunday Mail (Scotland)|Sunday Mail]]'' was already the name of a newspaper in [[Scotland]], owned by the Mirror Group.) There are Scottish editions of both the ''Daily Mail'' and ''Mail on Sunday'', with different articles and columnists. In 1992, the current editor, [[Paul Dacre]], was appointed.
It officially entered the [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] market with the launch of a [[Irish Daily Mail|local version of the paper]] on [[6 February]] [[2006]]; free copies of the paper were distributed on that day in some locations to publicise the launch. Its masthead differs from that of UK versions by having a green rectangle with the word "IRISH", instead of the [[Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom|Royal Arms]]. The Irish version includes stories of Irish interest alongside content from the UK version. According to the [http://www.abc-ireland.ie/ Audit Bureau of Circulations], the Irish edition had a circulation of 63,511 for July 2007 and is steadily increasing on each survey. Since [[24 September]] [[2006]] ''[[Ireland on Sunday]]'', the Irish Sunday newspaper acquired by Associated in 2001, was replaced by an Irish edition of the ''Mail on Sunday'' (the ''Irish Mail on Sunday''), to tie in with the weekday newspaper. The newspaper entered India on [[November 16]] [[2007]] with the launch of [http://www.mailtoday.in/ Mail Today], a 48-page compact size newspaper printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida with a print run of 110,000 copies. Based around a subscription model, the newspaper has the same fonts and feel as the Daily Mail and was set up with investment from Associated Newspapers and editorial assistance from the Daily Mail newsroom.<ref>[http://www.thomascrampton.com/media/thomas-jacob-mail-todays-india-newspaper-ifra/ Associated Newspapers launches Mail Today in India]</ref>
==Editorial stance==
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{{sidebar|'''Current columnists'''
*[[Peter Allen (journalist)|Peter Allen]]
*[[Charlie Bain]]
*[[Alex Brummer]]
*[[Rebecca Camber]]
*[[Nick Craven]]
*[[Rebecca English]]
*[[Charlotte Gill]]
*[[Sam Greenhill]]
*[[Christian Gysin]]
*[[Beth Hale]]
*[[Roy Hattersley]]
*[[Liz Jones]]
*[[Richard Kay]]
*[[Des Kelly]]
*[[Tom Kelly (Journalist)|Tom Kelly]]
*[[Olinka Koster]]
*[[Ann Leslie]]
*[[Edward Lucas]]
*[[Richard Littlejohn]]
*[[James Mills (journalist)|James Mills]]
*[[Bill Mouland]]
*[[Dan Newling]]
*[[Graham Poll]]
*[[Melanie Phillips]]
*[[Gordon Rayner]]
*[[Gwyneth Rees]]
*[[Tom Utley]]
*[[Michael Seamark]]
*[[Neil Sears]]
*[[Paul Sheehan (entertainment journalist)|Paul Sheehan]]
*[[Chris Tookey]]
*[[Keith Waterhouse]]
*[[David Williams (UK journalist)|David Williams]]
*[[Michael Winner]]
*[[Stephen Wright]]
*[[Tahira Yaqoob]]
}}
The ''Daily Mail'' considers itself to be the voice of [[Middle England]] speaking up for "small-c" conservative<ref>"small c" referring to [[conservatism]] as a [[political philosophy]]. Capitalising the C would imply the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], as "Conservative" is a [[Proper noun#Proper_nouns_and_common_nouns|proper noun]].</ref> values against what it sees as a liberal establishment. It generally takes an [[Euroscepticism|anti-EU]], anti-mass immigration, anti-abortion view, based around what it describes as "traditional values", and is correspondingly [[family values|pro-family]], pro-capitalism (though not always supportive of its aftereffects), and pro-monarchy, as well as, in some cases, advocating stricter punishments for crime. It also often calls for lower levels of taxation. The paper is generally critical of the [[BBC]], which it argues is biased to the [[left-wing politics|left]]. However, it is less supportive of deregulated [[commercial television]] than ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]'' (a tabloid owned by [[Rupert Murdoch]]), and unlike ''The Sun'' it seems to be broadly nostalgic for what it believes the BBC once was.
In the late 1960s the paper went through a phase of being liberal on social issues like corporal punishment, but this proved short-lived and it soon reverted to its traditional right-wing conservative line.
In [[Richard Littlejohn]], who returned in 2005 from ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]'', it has one of the most right-wing columnists{{Fact|date=October 2007}} in popular British journalism, alongside [[Peter Hitchens]], who joined its sister title the ''Mail on Sunday'' in 2001, when his former newspaper, the ''Daily Express'', was purchased by [[Richard Desmond]], the owner of a number of pornographic titles. The editorial stance was highly critical of [[Tony Blair]], when he was still Prime Minister, and endorsed the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in the [[UK general election, 2005|2005 general election]]<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=347259&in_page_id=1787&in_a_source= ''However you vote, give Mr Blair a bloody nose'', Daily Mail, 5th May 2005]</ref> However, in Blair's earlier years as [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] leader and then Prime Minister the paper often wrote positively about him and his reforms of the party. Opponents of Littlejohn have accused the columnist of being preoccupied with homosexuality (which he frequently calls 'poovery') and lying about asylum seekers being 'hosed down in benefits'<ref>{{cite web | publisher = The New Statesman | author = [[Johann Hari]] | url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200705210048 | title = On Fantasy Island}}</ref>.
To the surprise of some of its critics{{Fact|date=October 2007}}, the ''Mail'' championed the case of [[Stephen Lawrence]], a black teenager who was murdered in a racially motivated attack in [[Eltham, London]] in April 1993. In February 1997, the ''Mail'' led its front page with a picture of the five men accused of Lawrence's murder and the headline "MURDERERS", stating that it believed that the men had murdered Lawrence and adding "if we are wrong, let them sue us". In a 2002 interview, editor Paul Dacre described the Lawrence story as a "pivotal moment" and stated that "the old ''Daily Mail'', I'd be the first to admit, was slightly racist... but we are not now and Stephen Lawrence was the turning point on that".<ref>{{cite web | publisher = British Journalism Review | author = Bill Hagerty | url=http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2002/no3_hagerty2.htm | title = Paul Dacre: the zeal thing}}</ref>
The ''Mail'' has also opposed the growing of [[genetically-modified crops]] in the United Kingdom, a stance it shares with many of its left-wing critics.
===Moral issues===
The ''Mail'' is well-known for its right wing stance on numerous issues which it sees as being of moral significance. These include continuing condemnation of convicted criminals such as [[Myra Hindley]] and [[Maxine Carr]] and television programmes such as ''[[Jerry Springer - The Opera]]'' or ''[[Brass Eye]]'', abortion and [[reverse discrimination]] in the UK.
===Immigration===
The ''Mail'' is also known for its strong stance on immigration{{Fact|date=October 2007}}. Generally, its journalists argue emphatically in favour of ''managed'' migration whilst criticising what it calls Labour's "open door" immigration policy which, as is often quoted, has reportedly seen the UK's population increase by around 1.2 million.<ref name="population/immigration">{{cite web|url=http://www.workpermit.com/news/2005_09_02/uk/immigration_1mln.htm| publisher=Work Permit|title=Immigration increases UK population by over 1 million|author=|accessdate=2007-11-23}}</ref> However, its fervent treatment of issues such as [[Refugee|asylum seekers]] has prompted opponents (including ex-[[Mayor of London]] [[Ken Livingstone]] in a well-publicised argument)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ken Livingstone's statement in full|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4287171.stm|publisher =BBC Online|date=2005-02-22|accessdate=2008-03-27}}</ref> to accuse the Mail of engendering [[racism]].
The paper has also been accused of misquoting information about immigration in order to support its anti-immigrant line, a move criticised by the [[Association of Chief Police Officers]] (ACPO), who warned that media campaigns against immigrants could lead to a risk of "significant public disorder". However, the paper chose to interpret this as meaning that the disorder would be caused by immigrants, and failed to mention the media's role when reporting ACPO's statement.<ref>Nick Davies, "None deadlier than the Mail" [http://www.newstatesman.com/200801240030]</ref>
The newspaper is sometimes accused by its critics of having an anti-semitic past, being described by Ken Livingstone as having campaigned not to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, that it described Jews as infiltrating and undermining the pre-Hitler German government, supporting the Nazis, and blaming the Jews for having caused bad feeling against them in Germany.<ref name="eveningstandard">{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/mayor_letter_220205.jsp| publisher=Mayor of London|title=The Mayor's response to the London Assembly|author=Ken Livingstone|accessdate=2007-11-23}}</ref>
The paper now strongly repudiates far-right groups, for instance on [[3 February]], [[2006]] having the front page headline "In Britain: Two members of the odious [[British National Party|BNP]] go free over remarks offensive to most decent people" on the same day as publishing the article ''"Cheers as BNP leader walks free"''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=375999&in_page_id=1770|title=Cheers as BNP leader walks free'|publisher=Daily Mail|date=2006-02-03|accessdate=2008-03-27}}</ref> Despite its anti-mass immigration stance the paper has campaigned for failed [[asylum seeker]]s from [[Zimbabwe]] to be allowed to stay in Britain.
== Supplements and features ==
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'''''Daily Mail'''''
*''City & Finance'' - City & Finance is the business part of the Daily Mail, and the Financial Mail is the business paper free with the Mail on Sunday. City & Finance features City News and the results from the [[London Stock Exchange]], and also has its own website [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk] called ''This is Money''.
*''Travelmail'' - Contains travel articles, advertisements etc.
*''Femail'' - Femail is an extensive part of the ''Daily Mail'''s newspaper and website, being one of four main features on [[Mail Online]] others being News, TV & Showbiz and Sport. It is designed for women and is similar to magazines with life stories such as ''Bella Magazine'' and ''Take A Break''.
*''Weekend'' - The ''Daily Mail Weekend'' is a TV guide published by the ''Daily Mail'', included free with the ''Mail'' every Saturday. Weekend magazine, launched in October 1993, is issued free with the Saturday ''Daily Mail'' and has more ABC1 readers than any other national magazine. Weekend was originally launched with the intention of raising the Saturday circulation up to around 1.8 million copies. Today, the ''Daily Mail'' on a Saturday circulates over 3.2 million copies and is read by over 6.4 million adults. The guide does not use a magazine-type layout but chooses a newspaper style similar to the ''Daily Mail'' itself. In April 2007, the "Weekend" had a major revamp which included new articles and the end of other ones, such as the popular ''Nigel Andrew's View'' next to the guide every day. A feature changed during the revamp was a dedicated [[Freeview (United Kingdom)|Freeview]] channel page to ensure that the guide was more 'user-friendly' for people with the most used digital box in [[Great Britain]].
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[[Image:This is Money.JPG|240px|right|thumb|The Financial Mail on Sunday]]
'''''Mail on Sunday'''''
*''Financial Mail on Sunday'' - now part of the main paper, this section includes the award winning Financial Mail Enterprise, focusing on small business.
*''You'' - ''You'' magazine is a women's magazine featured in the ''Mail on Sunday''. Its mix of in-depth features plus fashion, beauty advice, practical insights on health and relationships, food recipes and interiors pages make it a regular read for over 3 million women (and 2.3 million men) every week. The ''Mail'' markets it, with ''Live'' magazine, as the only paper to have a magazine for him (''Live'') and for her (''You''). The ''Mail on Sunday'' is read by over six million a week<ref>[http://www.anladvertising.co.uk/mailonsunday.html Advertising for the Daily Mail]</ref>.
*''Live'' - this is the magazine is aimed at men. The main features are columms by well-known people such as [[Piers Morgan]], Has a particular stance towards iPod style equipment, and as such has been criticised for brand favouritism.
*''Mail on Sunday 2'' This pullout includes review, featuring articles on the arts, books and culture and it consists of reviews of all media and entertainment forms and interviews with sector personalities, property, travel and health.
*''Sportsmail'' - on the back pages of the ''Mail''. It features different sports including an emphasis on alternative sports such as darts and snooker.
*''Football Mail on Sunday'' - this reviews [[Premier League]], [[Football League Championship|Championship]] and [[The Football League|Football League]] games from Saturday as well as any important international games.
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=== Regular cartoon strips ===
* ''[[Garfield]]''
* ''[[I Don't Believe It]]''
* ''[[Odd Streak]]''
* ''[[The Strip Show]]''
* ''[[Up and Running]]'' (by Knight Features)
* ''[[The Gambols]]'' (Sunday, in the Cartoons section)
* ''[[Fred Basset]]''
* ''[[The Middletons]]'' (Sunday, in the Cartoons section)
* ''[[Peanuts]]'' (Sunday, in the Cartoons section)
Current cartoon strips that are in the ''Daily Mail'' include ''[[Garfield]]'' which moved from the ''[[Daily Express]]'' in 2006 and is also included in ''The Mail on Sunday''. It is usually written by Jim Davis. ''I Don't Believe It'' is another 3/4 part strip, written by Dick Millington. ''Odd Streak'' and ''The Strip Show'', which is shown in 3D are one part strips. ''Up and Running'' is a strip distributed by Knight Features and ''[[Fred Basset]]'' follows the life of the dog of the same name in a two part strip in the ''Daily Mail'' since [[July 8]] [[1963]].<ref name="c2med">{{cite web | url=http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=1&article=21463 | publisher=C21 Media | title=Fred Basset is back | author=Maria Esposito | accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref> ''The Gambols'' are another feature in the Mail on Sunday.
The long-running ''Teddy Tail'' cartoon strip, was first published on [[5 April]][[1915]] was the first ever cartoon strip in a British Newspaper. It ran for over 40 years to 1960, spawning the popular ''Teddy Tail League'' Children's Club and many annuals from 1934 to 1942 and again from 1949 to 1962. ''Teddy Tail'' was a Mouse, with friends Kitty Puss (a cat), Douglas Duck and Dr. Beetle. Teddy Tail is always shown with a knot in his tail, the reason why is explained in one of his stories. <ref name="tt1">{{cite web | url=http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit20th.html | title=Teddy Tail of the Daily Mail}}</ref> <ref name="tt2">{{cite web | url=http://www.gatewaymonthly.com/513teddy.html | title=Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Twentieth Century}}</ref>
=== Online media ===
{{main|Mail Online}}
The ''Daily Mail'' and its Sunday sibling, ''The Mail on Sunday'' publish most of their news online in a service called the Mail Online. It contains almost all of the stories from the Daily Mail as well as a large archive of important stories from years ago. The Daily Mail's sister paper has its own website, but the format and stories are much the same.
The search engine on the ''Daily Mail'' website is also widely used, being one of [[Internet Explorer 7]]`s default web searches, alongside names such as [[Google]], [[Yahoo!]] and [[eBay]]. Most of the site can be viewed for free and without registration, though some services require users to register.
==Contributors==
In recent times, like some other British newspapers (see, for example, [[Bruce Anderson]]'s contributions to ''[[The Independent]]''), the ''Daily Mail'' has taken to including some columnists with a very different political stance from the paper's own editorial line. Notable in the ''Mail'''s case is Roy Hattersley, a former Labour minister, who still takes a classic social-democratic line and nowadays attacks his own party very much from the left. Hattersley has written frequently for both the ''Mail'' and its political antithesis ''[[The Guardian]]'', as has [[Geoffrey Wheatcroft]].
===Notable regular contributors (past and present)===
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'''Journalists'''
*[[Peter Allen (journalist)|Peter Allen]]
*Charlie Bain
*[[Alex Brummer]]
*Rebecca Camber
*Nick Craven
*Richard Simpson
*Paul Revoir
*Laura Roberts
*Rebecca English
*Charlotte Gill
*[[Sam Greenhill]]
*Christian Gysin
*Beth Hale
*[[Roy Hattersley]]
*[[Liz Jones]]
*[[Des Kelly]]
*Chloe Rhodes
*Matthew Bond
*Phillip Hensher
*Jaci Stephen
*Kathryn Hughes
*Bill Mouland
*[[Tom Kelly]]
*Olinka Koster
*Antonia Hoyle
*Rebecca Hosking
*Alexis Parr
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*Polly Dunbar
*[[Ann Leslie]]
*[[Edward Lucas]]
*[[Richard Littlejohn]]
*Bob Cass
*Kurt Bayer
*Daniel Cochlin
*William Rees-Mogg
*Joe Bernstein
*Ian Ridley
*James Mills
*Bill Mouland
*Dan Newling
*[[Graham Poll]]
*[[Melanie Phillips]]
*Gwyneth Rees
*Michael Seamark
*Neil Sears
*[[David Mellor]]
*Simon Garfield
*Georgina Brown
*[[Paul Sheehan (entertainment journalist)|Paul Sheehan]]
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*[[David Williams]]
*Sarah Oliver
*Claudia Joseph
*Jason Lewis
*[[Michael Winner]]
*[[Stephen Wright]]
*Jason Solomons
*Rupert Christiansen
*Tahira Yaqoob
*Glen Owen
*[[Craig Brown (satirist)|Craig Brown]]
*Frank Barrett
*[[Patrick Collins]]
*[[Derek Draper]]
*[[Peter Hitchens]]
*[[Keith Waterhouse]]
*Harry Blackwood
*[[Julie Burchill]]
*Christopher Leake
*[[John Junor]]
*[[Norman Tebbit]]
*Angella Johnson
*Martin Delgado
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*Dennis Rice
*Sharon Churcher
*Antonio Hoyle
*Daniel Boffey
*Suzanne Moore
*David Bennun
*Freddie Windsor
'''Cartoonists'''
* Roger Mahoney
* [[Alex Graham]]
* [[Jim Davis (cartoonist)|Jim Davis]]
* [[Stanley McMurtry]]
'''Photographers/Picture editors'''
*Tobi Jenkins
*David Crump
*Colin Davey
*Jenny Goodall
*Roland Hoskins
*Les Wilson
*Mark Large
*[[Dave Parker]]
*[[Mark Richards]]
*Murray Sanders
*Jamie Wiseman
*Terry Bradford
*Dr. Kenneth Wilson
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===Past writers===
*[[Paul Callan]]
*[[William Comyns Beaumont]] (left in 1903 to create ''[[The Bystander]]'')
*[[Anthony Cave Brown]] (worked from mid-1950s through mid-1960s, won 'Reporter of the Year' award in 1958)
*[[Nigel Dempster]]
*[[Simon Heffer]] (left in 2005 to join the ''Daily Telegraph'')
*[[Paul Johnson (writer)|Paul Johnson]] (left the ''Mail'' in 2001; now writes for the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' and ''The Spectator'')
*[[Lynda Lee Potter]] (wrote for the ''Mail'' from 1967 until her death in 2004)
*[[William Le Queux]] -- A prolific writer of [[invasion literature]] in the pre-First World War period.
*[[Valentine Williams]] (1883–1946) General news correspondent and, during the [[First World War]], chief of the Daily Mail war service. Later a popular mystery novelist. Source: Williams' memoir, The World of Action (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1938), which describes his career and journalistic adventures.
*[[Ian Wooldridge]], a sportswriter on the paper from 1961 until his death in 2007
==See also==
*''[[Daily Chronicle]]'', a newspaper which merged with the ''Daily News'' to become the ''News-Chronicle'' and was finally absorbed by the ''Daily Mail''
==References==
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==External links==
* ''[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ Mail Online]''
* [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/ This is Money]
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/BUrothermere.htm A biography of the 1st Lord Rothermere]
* [http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/ Mailwatch]
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