Oxford Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper in Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

, England owned by Newsquest

Newsquest

Newsquest is the third largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom with 300 titles in its portfolio. Newsquest is based in Weybridge, Surrey and employs a total of more than 5,500 people across the UK...

. It is published six days a week. It is a sister paper to the weekly tabloid The Oxford Times

The Oxford Times

The Oxford Times is a weekly newspaper, published each Thursday in Oxford, England. It is published from a large production facility at Osney Mead, west Oxford, and is owned by Newsquest, the UK subsidiary of US-based Gannett Company....

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History

The Oxford Mail was founded in 1928 as a successor to Jackson's Oxford Journal.

From 1961 until 1979 its editor was Mark Barrington-Ward

Mark Barrington-Ward

-Life:Barrington-Ward is the son of Robert McGowan Barrington-Ward , who served with distinction in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and was editor of The Times 1941–48....

. At that time it was owned by the Westminster Press

Westminster Press

Westminster Press refers perhaps to one of these:* Westminster Press was a printing company in London run by Gerard Meynell, printer of the Imprint...

and was an evening newspaper.

The Oxford Mail is now published in the morning. In the second half of 2008 its circulation fell 6.8% to 23,402.