Who launched the 'Today' newspaper in 1986?
Today (UK newspaper) on equipment which had no facility for colour proofing, so the first view of the colour was on the finished product. However, it forced the conversion of all UK national newspapers to electronic production and colour printing. The newspaper's motto, hung in the newsroom, was "propa truth, not propaganda". Launched by regional newspaper entrepreneur Eddy Shah, it was bought by Tiny Rowland's Lonrho within four months. (Shah would launch the short-lived, unsuccessful national tabloid "The Post" in 1988.) Alastair Campbell was political editor and his long-term partner, Fiona Millar was news editor. Alongside the daily newspaper, a Sunday edition was
Today (UK newspaper) Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain". Today (UK newspaper) Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. "Today", with the American newspaper "USA Today" as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established "Daily Mail" and "Daily Express". It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce