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The Evening Standard (also the London Evening Standard) is a local daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London. Since 1985 it has been owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT).

It is the dominant local/regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with a strong City (i.e. financial) emphasis as well as carrying national and international news.

The newspaper was founded by barrister Stanley Lees Giffard on 21 May 1827 as The Standard. The early owner of the paper was Charles Baldwin. Under the ownership of James Johnstone, The Standard became a morning paper from 29 June 1857. The Evening Standard was published from 11 June 1859. The Standard gained eminence for its detailed foreign news, notably its reporting of events of the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, all contributing to a rise in circulation. By the end of the 19th century, the evening edition eclipsed its morning counterpart.

Both The Standard and the Evening Standard were acquired by C. Arthur Pearson in 1904. In May 1915, Edward Hulton purchased the Evening Standard from Davison Dalziel. Dalziel had purchased both papers in 1910, and closed The Standard, the morning paper, in 1916.[7] Hulton introduced the gossip column Londoner's Diary, originally billed as "a column written by gentlemen for gentlemen".

In 1923, Lord Beaverbrook, owner of the Daily Express, bought Hulton's newspapers, although he sold them shortly thereafter to the Daily Mail's owner Lord Rothermere, with the exception of the Standard. It became a staunchly Conservative paper, harshly attacking Labour in 1945 in a high-profile campaign that backfired. In the 1960s, the paper was upstaged by The Evening News, which sold over 1 million copies nightly. During the decade, the paper also began to publish the comic strip Modesty Blaise, which bolstered its sales throughout the 1970s. The Evening Standard ceased publishing on Saturdays on 30 Nov 1974, when it still produced six editions daily.

In 1980, Express Newspapers merged the Standard with Associated Newspapers' Evening News in a Joint Operating Agreement. The new paper was known as the New Standard until 1985, when Associated Newspapers bought out the remaining stake, turning it into The Standard. In 1987 the Evening News was briefly revived to compete with Robert Maxwell's London Daily News, but was reabsorbed into The Standard later that year, after the collapse of Maxwell's paper. In 1988 the Evening Standard included the by-line "Incorporating the 'Evening News'", which remained until 2009.

In May 2009 the paper relaunched with a new layout and masthead, marking the occasion by giving away 650,000 free copies on the day.

In March 2018, editor George Osborne initiated a redesign of the paper, which introduced more colourful "sign-posting" for different sections such as news, comment, and business, as it was noted by Osborne that it had not been "easy" to find them inside the paper previously. The masthead was also redesigned with a new font.

The Evening Standard, although a regional newspaper, does cover national and international news, though with an emphasis on London-centred news (especially in its features pages), covering building developments, property prices, traffic schemes, politics, the congestion charge and, in the Londoner's Diary page, gossip on the social scene. It also occasionally runs campaigns on local issues that national newspapers do not cover in detail.

It has a tradition of providing arts coverage. Its best known former art critic, Brian Sewell, was known for his acerbic view of conceptual art, Britart and the Turner Prize and his views attracted controversy and criticism in the art world. He has been described as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic".

The Standard has been in circulation since 21st May 1827 as London's paper and was launched as an evening title at 3.15pm on 11 June 1859, priced one penny.

By the mid 1870's the paper was selling 185,276 copies a day. By 1986 it was wholly owned by Associated Newspapers, who also publish the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.

Today the title is widely regarded as the 'Voice of London'. It is unique in the marketplace in bringing tomorrow's news today; ensuring London's metropolitan population has the most up to date news and comment with the highest quality features.

The portfolio was extended with the launch of ES Magazine in 1987, Hot Tickets and Homes & Property in September 1996 and Just the Job in September 1997. On September 19th 2002 MetroLife replaced Hot Tickets and has gone on to become one of London's leading listings guides.

The Evening Standard is the only forum and marketplace that London wide issues can be discussed in effectively. We are setting the agenda for a huge part of Britain's media. Look at how often the morning newspapers headlines are based on what we have reported the night before. You can read it a day earlier in the Evening Standard, so you get it first and you get it fastest.

We are the strongest paper in Britain for the coverage of the arts and we have the focus of attention from the nations opinion formers in both the media and the government. The Evening Standard provides the fastest news reporting as it happens in one of the world's greatest cities.

Between 8.00am and 4.00pm the Evening Standard publishes four editions, reporting on the news as and when it happens throughout the day. Breaking news stories, the latest stock market prices, and much, much more are all covered by London's premier newspaper.

Regular Features
Every Day: The Arts, Londoner's Diary, Reviews, TV and Radio, Going Out, Business News, City Comment, Share Prices, Sport, Horoscopes, Letters, Recipes
Monday: Life & Style, Travel, Entertainment Guide, Arts, Books, Just the Job
Tuesday: IT, Food & Drink, Arts, Health & Fitness, Bookmark
Wednesday: Travel, Media, Motoring, Rock & Pop, Homes & Property
Thursday: Fashion, Films, Shopping, Entertainment Guide, Arts, MetroLife
Friday: Weekender, Rock & Pop, Lifestyle, Travel, This is Money, ES Magazine

Homes & Property (Wednesday)
Homes & Property is a weekly newspaper dedicated to our greatest personal investment, our home. Published every Wednesday, Homes & Property is London's essential guide to buying, selling, letting and renting. Regular features on home design, hot financial tips and personality homes makes this the most complete and authoritative weekly title.

MetroLife (Thursday)
MetroLife Magazine utilises the unbridled talent of the Evening Standard's top-flight talent to provide comprehensive coverage of Europe's entertainment capital, in a readable and easy to negotiate format. The beauty of MetroLife Magazine, like good comedy is its timing. As research shows that Thursday is the optimum time for reaching consumers in a frame of mind for planning their leisure activities. However, MetroLife Magazine goes beyond other listing titles to provide the interviews with the top stars making the news.

ES Magazine (Friday)
ES Magazine is a glossy magazine for a glamorous city. It celebrates the people and places that make London such a vibrant city. In every issue we feature the faces that ensure the capital is the centre of Britain's talent. Each week ES Magazine covers fashion, beauty, food, travel, and shopping alongside celebrity news, gossip and in-depth interviews.

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London Lite is the trading name of a British free daily newspaper, published by the Daily Mail and General Trust. It is available from Monday to Friday each week from Evening Standard vendors and street distributors in Central London only.

On 14 December 2004, Associated Newspapers launched a freesheet edition of the Evening Standard, called Standard Lite, to help boost circulation freely. This had 48 pages, compared with about 80 in the main paper, which also had a supplement on most days.

It was announced in August 2006 that the free paper would now be called London Lite, in a move that was widely seen as a spoiler to protect against the launch of News International's The London Paper on 4 September.

London Lite is designed to be especially attractive to younger female readers, and features a wide range of lifestyle articles, but less news and business news than the Standard. It was initially available only between 11.30am and 2.30pm from Evening Standard vendors and in the central area, but is now available in the evening from its own street distributors.

Celebrity gossip is given far more coverage than international news and the Lite also reports in detail the incidents of violent crime in the capital.