Which London street is traditionally associated with newspapers?
Media in London News 1152. The London newspaper market is dominated by London editions of the national newspapers, all of which are edited in London. Until the 1970s, most of the national newspapers were concentrated in Fleet Street, but in the 1980s they relocated to new premises with automated printing works. Most of these are in East London, most famously the News International plant at Wapping. The move was resisted strongly by the printing trade union SOGAT 82, and strike action at Wapping in 1986 led to violent skirmishes. The last major news agency in Fleet Street, Reuters, moved to Canary Wharf in
Associated Newspapers (U.S.) from 1924 to 1929, when he was lured away by King Features Syndicate. The Great Depression brought hard times to Associated Newspapers (among many others). In 1930, Associated Newspapers was acquired by John Neville Wheeler's Bell Syndicate to become part of the Bell-McClure Syndicate, although it continued to syndicate material under the Associated Newspapers name. In 1933, just as the concept of "comic books" was getting off the ground, Eastern Color Printing published "Funnies on Parade", which reprinted in color several comic strips licensed from the Ledger Syndicate, the McNaught Syndicate, the Bell Syndicate, and Associated Newspapers' "Keeping Up with