The Glasgow Herald
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Newsquest |
| Publisher | Herald & Times Group |
| Editor | Graeme Smith |
| Founded | 1783 |
| Political alignment | The Herald does not endorse any political party |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 200 Renfield Street Glasgow, Scotland |
| Readership | The Herald has a print circulation of 28,900. Its Newsquest Scotland websites have 41m page views a month. |
| Sister newspapers |
Evening Times Sunday Herald The National (Scotland) |
| ISSN | 0965-9439 |
| OCLC number | 29991088 |
| Website | www.heraldscotland.com |
The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.The Herald is the longest running national newspaper in the world and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world.
The newspaper was founded by an Edinburgh-born printer called John Mennons in January 1783 as a weekly publication called the Glasgow Advertiser. Mennons' first edition had a global scoop: news of the treaties of Versailles, reached Mennons via the Lord Provost of Glasgow just as he was putting the paper together. War had ended with the American colonies, he revealed. The Herald, therefore, is as old as the United States of America, give or take an hour or two.
The story was, however, only carried on the back page. Mennons, using the larger of two fonts available to him, put it in the space reserved for late news.
In 1802, Mennons sold the newspaper to Benjamin Mathie and Dr James McNayr, former owner of the Glasgow Courier, which. along with the Mercury, was one of two papers Mennons had come to Glasgow to challenge. Mennons' son Thomas retained an interest in the company. The new owners changed the name to The Herald and Advertiser and Commercial Chronicle in 1803. In 1805 the name changed again, time to The Glasgow Herald when Thomas Mennons severed his ties to the paper.
From 1836 to 1964 The Herald was owned by George Outram & Co. becoming the first daily newspaper in Scotland in 1858. The company took its name from the paper's editor of 19 years, George Outram, an Edinburgh advocate best known in Glasgow for composing light verse. Outram was an early Scottish nationalist, a member of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights. The Herald, under Outram, argued that the promised privileges of the Treaty of Union had failed to materialise and demanded that, for example, that the heir to the British throne be called "Prince Royal of Scotland". "Any man calling himself a Scotsman should enrol in the National Association," said The Herald.
In 1895, the publication moved to a building in Mitchell Street designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which now houses the architecture centre, The Lighthouse. In 1980, the publication moved to offices in Albion Street in Glasgow into the former Scottish Daily Express building. It is now based at in a purpose-built building in Renfield Street, Glasgow.
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