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Media    From 11/3/1702  To 1735

Daily Courant

Daily Courant

First daily newspaper to be published in England. Published by Elixabeth Mallet from rooms above the White Hart in Fleet Street.

2022: , rightly, draws attention to the fact that this, Britain's first daily newspaper, was founded by a woman, Elizabeth Mallet, and yet she is not mentioned on the plaques, let alone honoured with one herself.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Daily Courant

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1 - Crane Court – The Daily Courant

Crane Court The Daily Courant, No 1 Wednesday March 11, 1702 {A facsimile of ...

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Daily Courant

The Corporation of the City of London In a house near this site was publishe...

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Daily Mirror newspaper

Daily Mirror newspaper

Tabloid newspaper.  Created by Alfred Harmsworth, initially as a paper for women by women but the following year he changed it to be a picture paper with a male editor and he fired all the female j...

Group, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Meredith White Townsend

Meredith White Townsend

Journalist. Born in Bures, Suffolk. In 1848 he went to India and became editor of 'The Friend of India'. Returning to England in 1860, he jointly, with Richard Holt Hutton, purchased The Spectator ...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, India

1 memorial
Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

Author and journalist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky. Best known for writing 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and at his funeral, his ashes ...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, USA

1 memorial
Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

Co-funder of the Reagan statue in Grosvenor Square. An Australian/American media mogul.

Person, Benefactor, Journalism / Publishing, Australia

2 memorials
Chartered Institute of Journalists

Chartered Institute of Journalists

Created at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham as the National Association of Journalists.  Described on the Stead memorials as "journalists of many lands".

Group, Benefactor, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial