London Evening News

This article is about the 1850s newspaper. For the 1881–1980 newspaper, see The Evening News (London newspaper).

The London Evening News was an evening newspaper published in London beginning on 14 August 1855.[1] It was cheap, at a halfpenny per issue.[2] It changed its name to The Day but "gave a poor news service",[1] and had failed by 1859.[2]

  1. ^ a b Herd, Harold; Morison, Stanley (1973). The March of Journalism: The Story of the British Press from 1622 to the Present Day. Greenwood Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-8371-6788-6.
  2. ^ a b Andrews, Alexander (1859). The History of British Journalism: From the Foundation of the Newspaper Press in England, to the Repeal of the Stamp Act in 1855. Vol. 2. London: Richard Bentley. p. 340.