when did the daily mail became a tabloid
Daily Mail The Mail was originally a broadsheet but switched to a compact format[16] on 3 May 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding. On this date it also absorbed the Daily Sketch, which had been published as a tabloid by the same company. The publisher of the Mail, the Daily Mail and General Trust, is currently a FTSE 250 company. The paper has a circulation of around two million, which is the fourth largest circulation of any English-language daily newspaper in the world.[17]
The Guardian On the 24 August 1959 The Manchester Guardian changed its name to The Guardian. This change reflected the growing prominence of national and international affairs in the newspaper.[38] In September 1961The Guardian, which had previously only been published in Manchester began to be printed in London.[39]