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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Reach plc |
| Editor-in-chief | Neil Hodgkinson[1] |
| Founded | 1885; 140 years ago (1885) |
| Language | English |
| City | Hull |
| Country | England |
| Circulation | 4,104 (as of 2024)[2] |
| ISSN | 1741-3419 |
| Website | hulldailymail |
TheHull Daily Mail is an English regional dailynewspaper forKingston upon Hull, in theEast Riding of Yorkshire. TheHull Daily Mail has been circulated in various guises since 1885. A second edition, theEast Riding Mail, coversEast Yorkshire outside the city of Hull. The paper publishes everyday except Sunday.
The paper is published by Mail News & Media. Mail News & Media also publishes two free weekly newspapers, theHull Advertiser andBeverley Advertiser, and a monthly magazine,The Journal. In 2012,Local World acquired owner Northcliffe Media fromDaily Mail and General Trust.[3] Trinity Mirror purchased Local World in 2015, and is now known asReach plc.[4]
The origins of the Hull Daily Mail can be traced back to theHull Packet and Humber Gazette, a weekly newspaper established on 29 May 1787 that was printed on Scale Lane, a street in what is today part of Hull's Old Town. Its name was shortened toThe Hull Packet in 1788. It was renamedThe Hull Packet and Humber Mercury in 1827 before changing back toThe Hull Packet in 1833. An issue of theHull Packet consisted of four pages with eight columns of text on each page and cost 7d (£0.03) to purchase. In 1857, a Saturday edition named theHull and North Lincolnshire Times was launched alongside thePacket.[5]: 10–15 [6]
In 1885, a consortium of Hull businessmen, includingFrederick Brent Grotrian, theConservative Member of Parliament forKingston upon Hull East, purchased theHull Packet, and on 29 September 1885, the first edition of the newHull Daily Mail was published from a printing house onWhitefriargate. TheHull Packet continued to be published alongside the new newspaper until 26 February 1886, closing with issue number 5,288;[7] from 8 March 1886, theHull Daily Mail was published asThe Hull Daily Mail And Hull Packet.[citation needed] In its early years, theHull Daily Mail's editorial stance was declared as both defensive and aggressiveconservatism, though with regard to local news and affairs, the newspaper's reporting was not influenced by national Conservative Party policy.[8][5]: 10–15
TheHull Daily Mail, then simply known as theDaily Mail, endured competition with other newspapers established on Whitefriargate in the 1910s, including theEastern Morning News,Hull Evening News and the weeklyHull News all operating from an office on the north side of the street, while theDaily Mail and a number of its own weekly titles continued to publish in competition on the south side of the street.[5]: 22–23 In 1926, the newspaper moved to a four-floor office on Jameson Street within the city centre named the 'Mail Buildings', which alongside additional office space, had more space for the newspaper's 24Linotype machines and printing presses in the building's basement.[5]: 24–31 Tabloid format was adopted in 1986, followed by a formal rebranding to theHull Daily Mail, and the newspaper vacated the Jameson Street 'Mail Buildings' for a new complex on the junction of Spring Bank andBeverley Road, known as 'Blundell's Corner', in 1989.[5]: 71–72
In 1998, theHull Daily Mail launched its website. In 2006, this website was used to launch theHull Daily Mail's onlinevideo journalism service, the first such service to be launched for a local newspaper in the United Kingdom, and a sports news website namedSportshull was launched in 2007.[5]: 73
In 2015, theHull Daily Mail received a new logo and general design to both the newspaper and website, replacing logos and styling that had been used since the mid-2000s, and introducing weekend supplements and a TV and entertainment guide named 'The View'.[9]
As part of a Trinity Mirror restructure, Neil Hodgkinson, editor of theHull Daily Mail, was promoted toeditor-in-chief in February 2016 forHumber andLincolnshire regions, overseeing theGrimsby Telegraph,Scunthorpe Telegraph andLincolnshire Echo as well as the Mail.[1] In March 2018 the Reach PLC titles for the North East, including theChronicle,Journal andTeesside Gazette, were added to his portfolio of titles.[10]
TheHull Daily Mail changed its banner head on its website to 'Hull Live' after the company was taken over by Trinity Mirror in 2017.[11] Trinity Mirror was re-branded Reach plc in May 2018.[12]
The newspaper has won the award for Yorkshire Daily Newspaper of the Year five times, in 2003,[13]2004,[14] 2006,[15] 2007,[16] and 2012.[17]
For many years, a separateSports Mail supplement was published Saturdays. Printed on distinctive green newsprint, it was available an hour after the end of the afternoon matches of the city's football and Rugby League teams, and newsagents would stay open specifically to sell and distribute it.[18]
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