Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, first published in 1896. Its sister paper, the Mail on Sunday, was launched in 1982. The editorial slant of both papers is right-wing. 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. Originally broadsheet, the Mail switched to the tabloid format in which it is published today on May 3 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding. Its chief rival, the Daily Express, has a similar political stance and target audience, but sells fewer than half as many copies. As of 2004 the publisher of the Mail, the Daily Mail and General Trust, is a FTSE 100 company and the paper has a circulation of more than 2 million, the second largest circulation of any English language daily newspaper, and the twelfth highest of any newspaper.

Mail on Sunday writers

Current writers

• Peter Hitchens
• Suzanne Moore
• George Galloway
• Keith Waterhouse
• Harry Blackwood - North East England area only

Past writers

• Norman Tebbit
• Julie Burchill
• Valentine Williams (1883-1946) General news correspondent, and, during World War One, chief of the Daily Mail war service. Later a popular mystery novelist. Source: Willilams's memoir, The World of Action (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1938), which describes his career and journalistic adventures.