The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper. Formed by the merger of The Daily News and the Daily Chronicle in 1930, it ceased publication on 17 October 1960, being absorbed into the Daily Mail. Its offices were at 12/22, Bouverie Street, off Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8DP, England. the News Chronicle was formed by the merger of the Daily News and the Daily Chronicle on 2 June 1930, with Walter Layton appointed as editorial director. and, later, Geoffrey Cox

Following Koestler's release, the paper sent him to Mandatory Palestine, then convulsed by the Arab revolt. In a series of articles in the paper, Koestler urged adoption of the Peel Commission's recommendation for partition of Palestine, as "the only practical way of ending the bloodshed". In his autobiography Koestler notes that en route to Palestine he had stopped in Athens and had clandestine meetings with Communists and Liberals opposing the then Metaxas dictatorship, but the News Chronicle refused to publish his resulting strongly worded anti-Metaxas articles.

In 1956, the News Chronicle opposed the UK's military support of Israel in invading the Suez canal zone, a decision which cost it circulation. According to Geoffrey Goodman, a journalist on the newspaper at the time, it was "one of British journalism's prime casualties of the Suez crisis".

Folding

On 17 October 1960, the News Chronicle "finally folded, inappropriately, into the grip"

  • Patrick Maitland, (later MP for Lanark and Earl of Lauderdale) - war correspondent for News Chronicle, Pacific, 1941 to 1944
  • Richard Moore - leader writer and father of journalist Charles Moore
  • Louise Morgan - Irish-born, (1886-1964) educated in U.S.A., editor and journalist, writer of News Chronicle articles from 1933 to the early 1950s, and author of Inside Yourself: A New Way to Health Based on the Alexander Technique
  • C.W.A. Scott - aviation editor
  • John Segrue – foreign correspondent; twice expelled by the Nazis, he was eventually captured and interned in a German prisoner-of-war camp, where he died in 1942.
  • Sir Patrick Sergeant - later Daily Mail City Editor, founder and owner of Euromoney
  • David Esdaile Walker – war correspondent, chief leader writer 1955-1959
  • H.G. Wells – contributor to the Daily News

Editors

:1930: Tom Clarke

:1933: Aylmer Vallance

:1936: Gerald Barry

:1954: Michael Curtis

:1957: Norman Cursley

See also

  • Get Ahead: BBC TV programme broadcast from 1958 to 1962 which was sponsored by the paper.
  • "Brief history of the Enterprise Class": The News Chronicle sponsored Jack Holt in 1955 to design the Enterprise (dinghy)
  • The Cricket Annual: A cricket annual which for many years was published as the News Chronicle Cricket Annual.

Notes

  • Concise History of British Newspaper in the 20th Century – www.bl.uk
  • History of the Daily News – Spartacus Educational
  • History of the Daily Chronicle – Spartacus Educational