LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Launch of Daily Star newspaper

Genre

News report; Interview; Music

TX Date

2 Nov 1978

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:03:15

Description

Company Chairman Victor Matthews expresses his delight at the successful launch of new national newspaper the Daily Star. Editor Derek Jameson defends the use of photographs of topless women to sell newspapers. Women’s rights activist Anne Porter says there are already enough papers selling women rather than news. Local National Graphical Association (NGA) spokesman Paul Salts says there must be talks over workers’ futures, but that workers would not endanger the paper. Includes fanfares and music. Dave Wiggins reports.

Contributors

Derek Jameson; Victor Matthews; Dave Wiggins; Anne Porter; Paul Salts

Keywords

Trade unions; Newspapers; Press; NGA; Women; Newspaper press; Womens liberation movement; Trafalgar House; Daily Star; Press ethics; Newspaper publishing

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