Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship title of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (itself wholly owned by Richard Desmond). In May 2015, it had an average daily circulation of 432,076. In recent years, the Daily Express has become a supporter of UKIP, acting as a financial backer.

Express Newspapers currently publishes the Sunday Express (launched in 1918), Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday.

History

The Daily Express was founded in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson, with the first issue appearing on 24 April 1900. Pearson, who had lost his sight to glaucoma in 1913, sold the title to the future Lord Beaverbrook in 1916. It was one of the first papers to place news instead of advertisements on its front page along with carrying gossip, sports, and women's features. It was also the first newspaper in Britain to have a crossword puzzle.

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser

The Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser was an English language newspaper published in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. It was the first newspaper to be published in Wagga Wagga, and was in circulation from 1858-1939.

History

The newspaper was first published on 30 October 1858 by James Thorburn Brown, predating The Daily Advertiser by ten years. The paper changed name several times ceasing publication in 1939.

The Wagga Wagga Express offices were destroyed by fire on 14 February 1892 with only the account books being rescued from the blaze.

Digitisation

The newspaper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project hosted by the National Library of Australia.

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Daily Express (disambiguation)

The Daily Express is a conservative, middle-market British tabloid newspaper and the flagship title of Express Newspapers.

Daily Express may also refer to:

Daily Express (Dublin)

The Daily Express of Dublin (often referred to as the Dublin Daily Express, to distinguish it from the Daily Express of London) was an Irish newspaper published from 1851 until June 1921, and then continued for registration purposes until 1960.

It was a unionist newspaper. From 1917, its title was the Daily Express and Irish Daily Mail. In its heyday, it had the highest circulation of any paper in Ireland.

History

In his Post Famine Ireland (2006), Desmond Keenan says of the newspaper:

In 1858, Karl Marx, writing in the New York Tribune, called the paper "the Government organ":

The paper's first editor, James Godkin, although brought up as a Roman Catholic, had served as a Congregational minister in Armagh and as a general missionary for the Irish Evangelical Society. He was the author of A Guide from the Church of Rome to the Church of Christ (1836) and in 1838 had founded the Christian Patriot newspaper in Belfast. He was also the author of a prize-winning essay called The Rights of Ireland (1845).

Daily Express (Malaysia)

The Daily Express is an English-language newspaper in Sabah, Malaysia and the sister newspaper of the Overseas Chinese Daily News (OCDN). It was founded by Tan Sri Yeh Pao Tzu and it was first issued on 1 March 1963. It is published in English, Malay and Kadazan. It is promoted as the "Independent National Newspaper of East Malaysia". It is the largest daily newspaper in Sabah with an average circulation of 23,790 copies daily.

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