The Herald (Glasgow)#The Herald Diary

The newspaper was founded by an Edinburgh-born printer called John Mennons in January 1783 as a weekly publication called the Glasgow Advertiser.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-28 |title=How should The Herald cover a city it is indelibly linked with? |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23883762.glasgow-herald-getting-coverage-right/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=The Herald |language=en |archive-date=28 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028053915/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23883762.glasgow-herald-getting-coverage-right/ |url-status=live }} Mennons' first edition had a global scoop: news of the treaties of Versailles{{cite book |last=Morris |first=Richard B. |author-link=Richard B. Morris |url=https://archive.org/details/peacemakersgrea00morr |title=The Peacemakers: the Great Powers and American Independence |publisher=Harper and Row |year=1965 |url-access=registration}}{{cite book |last=Black |first=Jeremy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgbjPESz3dcC&q=British+foreign+policy+in+an+age+of+revolutions,+1763%E2%80%931793 |title=British foreign policy in an age of revolutions, 1783–1793 |date=April 14, 1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0521466844 |pages=11–20}} 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.{{sfn|Phillips|1983|p=11}}

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.{{sfn|Reid|2006|p=xiv}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u5ZQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SzQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5172%2C37000|publisher=Glasgow Advertiser|date=27 January 1783|page=4|title=Glasgow|archive-date=6 May 2016|access-date=30 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506012200/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u5ZQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SzQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5172%2C37000|url-status=live}}

In 1802, Mennons sold the newspaper to Benjamin Mathie and 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.{{sfn|Phillips|1983|p=13}} 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, this time to The Glasgow Herald when Thomas Mennons severed his ties to the paper.{{Cite book|title = Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men who have died during the last thirty years and in their lives did much to make the city what it now is|last = Maclehose|first = James|publisher = James Maclehose & Sons|year = 1886|location = Glasgow|url = http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen073.htm|page = 259|archive-date = 1 February 2012|access-date = 18 October 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120201145959/http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen073.htm|url-status = live}}

From 1836 to 1964, The Glasgow Herald was owned by George Outram & Co.{{cite book | title=Glasgow Almanac: An A–Z of the City and Its People | publisher=Neil Wilson Publishing | author=Terry, Stephen | year=2011 | location=Glasgow | at=Chapter 2, last page}} becoming one of the first daily newspapers 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.{{sfn|Phillips|1983|p=48}} Outram was an early Scottish nationalist, a member of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights. The Glasgow 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.{{sfn|Phillips|1983|p=49}}

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In 1895, the publication moved to a building in Mitchell Street designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which now houses the architecture centre, The Lighthouse.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/arts/design/mackintoshs-classic-designs-abound-in-glasgow.html?_r=0|title=Mackintosh's Classic Designs Abound in Glasgow|first=Christopher D.|last=Shea|work=The New York Times|date=11 July 2016|access-date=2 March 2017}} In 1988, the publication moved to offices in Albion Street in Glasgow into the former Scottish Daily Express building.{{cite web |title=Glasgow, 159-195 Albion Street, Daily Express Building |url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/140994/glasgow-159-195-albion-street-daily-express-building |website=Canmore |access-date=6 October 2023 |language=en |date=2001 |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919115655/https://canmore.org.uk/site/140994/glasgow-159-195-albion-street-daily-express-building |url-status=live }} It is now based in a purpose-built building in Renfield Street, Glasgow.

One of the most traumatic episodes in the history of The Glasgow Herald was the battle for control and ownership of the paper in 1964.{{sfn|Phillips|1983|p=152}} Two multi-millionaires, The 1st Baron Fraser of Allander and The 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, whose newspaper empire included The Glasgow Herald{{'}}s archrival, The Scotsman, fought for control of the title for 52 days. Lord Fraser of Allander won. The paper's then editor, James Holburn, was a "disapproving onlooker".{{sfn|Phillips|1983|p=157}} The Labour Party condemned the battle as "big business at its worst".{{sfn|Phillips|1983|p=157}}

The newspaper changed its name to The Herald on 3 February 1992, dropping Glasgow from its title, but not its masthead.{{sfn|Griffiths|1992|p=305}} That same year the title was bought by Caledonia Newspaper Publishing & Glasgow. In 1996, it was purchased by Scottish Television (STV; later called the Scottish Media Group). {{As of|2003|post=,}} the newspaper along with its related publications, the Evening Times and Sunday Herald (now defunct), were owned by the Newsquest media group, part of Gannett.

Graeme Smith assumed editorship of The Herald in January 2017, replacing Magnus Llewellin, who had held the post since 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.newsquest.co.uk/news/2016/11/21/newsquest-scotland-names-editorial-chief/|title=Newsquest Scotland names editorial chief – Newsquest|date=21 November 2016|access-date=1 March 2017|archive-date=17 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017203059/http://www.newsquest.co.uk/news/2016/11/21/newsquest-scotland-names-editorial-chief/|url-status=dead}} Notable past editors include: John Mennons, 1782; Samuel Hunter, 1803; George Outram, 1836; James Pagan, 1856; William Jack FRSE (1870–1876); James Holburn 1955–1965;{{cite news | url=http://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-herald/20130227/282205123302406 | title=From the archives | date=27 February 2013 | work=The Herald | access-date=2018-03-16 | archive-date=17 October 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017203130/http://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-herald/20130227/282205123302406 | url-status=live }} George MacDonald Fraser, 1964; Alan Jenkins, 1978; Arnold Kemp 1981; Mark Douglas-Home, 2000; and Charles McGhee, 2006.

Prominent columnists include Alison Rowat,{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/author/profile/73227.Alison_Rowat/?ref=fetp|title=Profile: Alison Rowat|website=www.heraldscotland.com|access-date=1 March 2017|archive-date=2 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302035721/http://www.heraldscotland.com/author/profile/73227.Alison_Rowat/?ref=fetp|url-status=live}} who covers everything from television to international statecraft; former Scottish justice secretary and SNP politician Kenny MacAskill Kevin McKenna and David Pratt{{cite web|url=http://www.scotns.org.uk/the-winners-at-the-2012-awards/|title=The Winners at the 2012 Awards – Scottish Newspaper Society|website=www.scotns.org.uk|access-date=2 March 2017|archive-date=3 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303050422/http://www.scotns.org.uk/the-winners-at-the-2012-awards/|url-status=live}} and business editor Ian McConnell,{{cite web|url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2013/news/high-five-for-herald-at-scottish-press-awards/|title=Scottish Press Awards winners announded including Herald and Scotsman – Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage|access-date=2 March 2017|archive-date=3 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303050134/http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2013/news/high-five-for-herald-at-scottish-press-awards/|url-status=live}} both multi-award-winning journalists, provide analysis of their fields every Friday.

Currently edited by Lorne Jackson, the column has been spun off in to a popular series of books since the 1980s.{{cite book|title=The Herald Diary 2016: That's the Sealiest Thing I've Read!|first=Ken|last=Smith|date=27 October 2016|publisher=Black and White Publishing|id={{ASIN|1785300644|country=uk}} }} The Herald Diary used to be edited by writer Tom Shields.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Tom-Shields-Too-More-Diary/1851585044/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488377927&sr=1-1&keywords=Tom+Shields|title=Tom Shields Too: More Tom Shields' Diary|first=Tom|last=Shields|date=4 November 1993|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|via=Amazon}} Sean Connery once said: "First thing each morning I turn to The Herald on my computer – first for its witty Diary, which helps keep my Scots sense of humour in tune."{{cite book|title=The Herald Diary 2010|first=Ken|last=Smith|date=7 October 2010|publisher=Black and White Publishing|id={{ASIN|1845023153|country=uk}} }}{{better source|date=March 2017}}

It is currently printed at Carmyle, just south east of Glasgow.{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/misc/about-hs |title=About HeraldScotland |publisher=Herald & Times Group |location=Glasgow |access-date=5 April 2013}} The paper is published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow and as of 2017 it had an audited circulation of 28,900.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-39076470|title=Decline in Scottish newspaper print sales continues|first=Douglas|last=Fraser|date=24 February 2017|publisher=BBC}} The Herald{{'}}s website is protected by a paywall. It is part of the Newsquest Scotland stable of sites, which have 41m page views a month.Omniture August 2016; includes s1 and E&M Scottish network{{unverifiable|date=August 2019}}

The Herald declares in every edition that it does not endorse any political party. However, the newspaper backed a 'No' vote in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. The accompanying headline stated, "The Herald{{'}}s view: we back staying within UK, but only if there's more far-reaching further devolution."{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/herald-view/once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-to-cast-a-future-that-meets-the-aspirations-of-sc.25295912 |title=The Herald{{'}}s view: we back staying within UK, but only if there's more far-reaching further devolution |date=16 September 2014 |page=14 |work=The Herald |access-date=16 September 2014 |archive-date=16 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916220428/http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/herald-view/once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-to-cast-a-future-that-meets-the-aspirations-of-sc.25295912 |url-status=live }}

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• {{cite book|editor-last=Griffiths |editor-first=Dennis |title=The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992| publisher=Macmillan |location=London and Basingstoke |year=1992 }}
• {{cite book| last=Phillips| first=Alastair| title=Glasgow's Herald: Two Hundred Years of a Newspaper 1783–1983| year=1983| publisher=Richard Drew Publishing| location=Glasgow|isbn=0-86267-008-X}}
• {{Cite book | isbn = 978-0-7152-0836-6 | title = Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press | last1 = Reid | first1 = Harry | year = 2006 | publisher = Saint Andrew Press | location = Edinburgh }}

• {{Official website|https://www.heraldscotland.com}}
• [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC The Glasgow Herald] at Google News Archive

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