Evening Standard
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daily tabloid newspaper in London
Key facts
- Type
- Regional free newspaper
- Format
- Tabloid
- Owners
- Evgeny Lebedev (63%) Daily Mail and General Trust (24.9%) Justin Byam Shaw (7%) Geordie Greig (5%)
- Editor
- Anna van Praagh (acting)
- Founded
- 21 May 1827 ; 199 years ago ( 1827-05-21 )
- Language
- English
- Headquarters
- Alphabeta, 14–18 Finsbury Square , London
- Circulation
- 150,154 (as of August 2025)
- Issn
- 2041-4404
- Website
- www .standard .co .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- periodical
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- London
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Daily Mail and General Trust
- Official website
- www.standard.co.uk
- Image
- Headlines london bombing 7 july 2005 Waterloo station.JPG
Show 11 more facts
- start time
- 1904-00-00
- Commons category
- Evening Standard
- topic's main category
- Category:London Evening Standard
- title
- Evening Standard
- place of publication
- London
- inception
- 1904-00-00
- newspaper format
- tabloid
- language of work or name
- English language
- publication interval
- 1
- social media followers
- 327000
- quantity
- 700000
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Encyclopedic overview
The London Standard, branded online as The Standard and formerly known as the Evening Standard, is a long-established regional newspaper published weekly on Thursdays and distributed free of charge in London, England. It is printed in tabloid format and also has a digital edition for reading the print publication digitally.
The paper was launched in 1827 during the reign of George IV and was known as The Standard, for some time competing with The Times. An evening edition began in 1859 and the publication adopted the Evening Standard name several times throughout its history. During the mid-20th century, it was one of the main regional London newspapers alongside The Evening News and The Star. By 1980, the Standard had become a monopoly after the former's merger into it. It briefly faced new competition from London Daily News in 1987, and from 2006 by The London Paper. The Standard pridefully branded itself as the "voice of London". Unloading the Evening Standard at Chancery Lane Station, November 2014
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Evening Standard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.