Editorial style London Evening Standard

1 editorial style

1.1 2008 london mayoral election
1.2 2010 general election
1.3 2015 general election
1.4 2016 london mayoral election

editorial style

the newspaper s editor former chancellor of exchequer, george osborne, replaced sarah sands. ms. sands replaced geordie greig following departure mail on sunday in march 2012. veronica wadley newspaper s editor between 2002 , 2009. max hastings editor 1996 until retired in 2002.

the london evening standard, although regional newspaper, cover national , international news, though emphasis on london-centred news (especially in features pages), covering building developments, property prices, traffic schemes, politics, congestion charge and, in londoner s diary page, gossip on social scene. runs campaigns on local issues national newspapers not cover in detail.

it has tradition of providing arts coverage. best known former art critic, brian sewell, known acerbic view of conceptual art, britart , turner prize , views attracted controversy , criticism in art world. has been described britain s famous , controversial art critic .

2008 london mayoral election

during 2008 london mayoral election newspaper – , particularly correspondent andrew gilligan – published articles in support of conservative candidate, boris johnson, including frequent front-page headlines condemning ken livingstone. included headline suicide bomb backer runs ken s campaign .

2010 general election

on 5 may 2010, newspaper stated in editorial that, having supported labour under tony blair, newspaper supporting david cameron , conservatives in general election, saying conservatives ready power: government in waiting.

2015 general election

on 5 may 2015, editorial stated newspaper again supporting david cameron , conservatives in 2015 general election, saying conservatives have shown london. newspaper did claim there may tactical reasons vote liberal democrat.

2016 london mayoral election

a study conducted media reform coalition (mrc) , goldsmiths university of london argued that, in 2016 elections new mayor of london, london evening standard mouthpiece of conservative party , according mrc chair justin schlosberg. schlosberg accused standard of being

systematically biased in way headlines , news stories framed, selected , prioritised. more concerning because bias concentrated in relatively prominent headlines , in news reports readers less expect opinion mobilised.

there twice many positive headlines conservative candidate, zac goldsmith, labour rival, sadiq khan, stories exhibiting strongest bias against khan being prominent. 13 out of 15 official press releases goldsmith campaign in 2 months 12 april published news stories in paper, reproducing headlines news release virtually verbatim , according study.