London Evening Standard

The Evening Standard is a local free newspaper in London. It is sold in London and South West England. Their strengths are local reports from London and the financial district as well as its cultural reporting.

It was founded in 1827 as The Standard and appeared in 1857 as a morning newspaper with an evening edition ( The Evening Standard ) from 1859. Notoriety they gained through their reports from the French-German war of 1870 /1 and the American Civil War of the 1860s.

The Evening Standard awards the important British Film Award Evening Standard British Film Award and the " Evening Standard Theatre Awards" (a " Pub of the Year " award in 2007 set ). For a long time Alexander Walker made ​​her film critic. For the newspaper the well-known art critic Brian Sewell works.

It is published three times daily tabloid with 80 pages. The first issue goes by 10 clock in print and is available from about 11 clock in the center of London, the second falls by 15 clock and the third by 17 clock in pressure. The circulation is about 263,000 (data from 2006).

January 21, 2009 75.1% of the shares were purchased by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev Jewgenjewitsch ( for symbolic 1 pound ). Previously, she was one of Associated Newspapers Ltd.. ( a part of the media group Daily Mail and General Trust, DMG, they also give you the Daily Mail out ). One reason for the sale were losses due to declining advertising volume. In addition, complimentary newspapers in London made ​​to create the sheet increasingly.

2002-2009 Veronica Wadley was the editor, and before that from 1996 Max Hastings. As of 2009, took over Geordie Greig. Since 2012 Sarah Sands is the editor.

As of December 2004, there was a free issue "Standard Lite ", from August 2006 " London Lite " called ( it is independent of the Evening Standard after the sale to Lebedev ). 2002 to 2005 there was also a side dish event "Metro Life". Friday appears the Evening Standard with lifestyle supplement "ES".

Since 2009, the traditional newspaper is distributed free of charge. Thus, the competitive pressure from the spread in the UK free newspaper should be pleaded.

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