20 Facts About Daily Mirror

Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid-sized newspaper that is considered to be engaged in tabloid-style journalism.

In 1963 a restructuring of the media interests of the Harmsworth family led to the Daily Mirror becoming a part of International Publishing Corporation.

Daily Mirror was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth as a newspaper for women, run by women.

On Monday, 22 January 1934 the Daily Mirror ran the headline "Give the Blackshirts a helping hand" urging readers to join Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and giving the address to which to send membership applications.

Partly on the advice of the American advertising agency J Walter Thompson, the Mirror became the first British paper to adopt the appearance of the New York tabloids.

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Daily Mirror was an influential model for German tabloid Bild, which was founded in 1952 and became Europe's biggest-selling newspaper.

The Daily Mirror management did not want the Herald competing with the Daily Mirror for readers, and in 1964, relaunched it as a mid-market paper, now named The Sun.

The Press Gazette commented: "The Daily Mirror launched its revolutionary four-page supplement "Mirrorscope".

The Daily Mirror went through a protracted period of crisis before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity to form Trinity Daily Mirror in 1999.

In 2000, Morgan was the subject of an investigation after Suzy Jagger wrote a story in The Daily Telegraph revealing that he had bought £20, 000 worth of shares in the computer company Viglen soon before the Mirrors 'City Slickers' column tipped Viglen as a good buy.

In 2002, the Daily Mirror attempted to move mid-market, claiming to eschew the more trivial stories of show-business and gossip.

WE WERE HOAXED", the Daily Mirror responded that it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and apologised for the publication of the photographs.

Daily Mirror has consistently supported the Labour Party since the 1945 general election.

On 3 May 1979, the day of the general election, the Daily Mirror urged its readers to vote for the governing Labour Party led by James Callaghan.

At the 1987 general election, the Daily Mirror remained loyal to Labour, now led by Neil Kinnock, and urged its readers with the slogan "You know he's right, chuck her out.

The Daily Mirror urged its readers that their country needed Tony Blair, and to vote Labour.

The Daily Mirror was the only leading national newspaper to remain loyal to Labour and Gordon Brown at a time when opinion polls showed the party on course for their worst election result since 1983.

The Daily Mirror endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 United States presidential election.

Daily Mirror won "Newspaper of the Year" in 2002 at the British Press Awards.

The Daily Mirror won "Team of the Year" in 2001, 2002 ('War on the World: World against Terrorism'), 2003 ('Soham'), and 2006 ('London bombings'); and "Front Page of the Year" in 2007.