Qualla: The Guardian https://qualla.com/the-guardian en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-guardian-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Guardian https://qualla.com/the-guardian The Guardian: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-guardian/ Photo credit The Guardian staff, Public domain. On 5 May 1821 — the same day, by chance, that Napoleon died on St Helena — a Manchester cotton merchant named John Edward Taylor published the first issue of a paper he called the Manchester Guardian. The Peterloo massacre had taken place barely two years earlier, when British cavalry charged a crowd of pro-democracy protestors in St Peter's Field and killed at least eighteen of them. The radical Manchester Observer, which had championed the survivors, had just been closed by the police. Taylor, who was no radical, founded a paper instead. He had backers — a group of non-conformist businessmen known as the Little Circle, two of whom would later be revealed by a 2023 Scott Trust review to have had links to the Atlantic slave trade. The paper Taylor founded would, over two centuries, move from Manchester to London, change its name, and arrive in 2026 as one of the few major newspapers in the world owned not by a person or a corporation but by a trust whose only job is to keep it independent.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-guardian-wp/gcpv-the-guardian-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Guardian: Cotton, Reform, and the Scott Trust https://qualla.com/the-guardian/ Photo credit TTWKennington, CC BY-SA 4.0. For its first century the paper was a Manchester institution, edited from 1872 to 1929 by C. P. Scott, whose name now anchors the trust that owns it. Scott was a Liberal MP, a friend of Chaim Weizmann, and the author of the 1921 editorial whose phrase "comment is free, but facts ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-guardian-wp/gcpv-the-guardian-cotton-reform-and-the-scott-trust.mp3 0:06 2 full The Guardian: From Manchester to London https://qualla.com/the-guardian/ Photo credit Kaihsu at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. It dropped "Manchester" from the masthead on 24 August 1959 and began printing in London in 1961. The move severed something. For more than a century the paper had been a regional voice with a national reach — supportive of Republican Spain (George Orwell wrote in Homage to Catal...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-guardian-wp/gcpv-the-guardian-from-manchester-to-london.mp3 0:06 3 full The Guardian: Phone Hacking and Snowden https://qualla.com/the-guardian/ Photo credit Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), Public domain. Two stories defined the modern Guardian. In 2011, reporter Nick Davies broke the news that the News of the World had hacked the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler. The story brought down the country's biggest-selling Sunday paper and triggered the Leveson Inquiry into press ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-guardian-wp/gcpv-the-guardian-phone-hacking-and-snowden.mp3 0:06 4 full The Guardian: A Newspaper That Does Not Make Money https://qualla.com/the-guardian/ Photo credit TTWKennington, CC BY-SA 4.0. Through most of the 2000s and 2010s the Guardian lost roughly a hundred thousand pounds a day. The Scott Trust's endowment, built up from the sale of regional papers and online classifieds, was supposed to be perpetual — and yet by 2014 the paper was visibly burning through it. T...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-guardian-wp/gcpv-the-guardian-a-newspaper-that-does-not-make-money.mp3 0:06 5 full The Guardian: Kings Place https://qualla.com/the-guardian/ Photo credit Thomas Euler, CC BY-SA 2.0. Walk down York Way behind King's Cross station and you reach Kings Place, the canal-side office building the Guardian moved into in 2008. The building also houses a concert hall, two galleries, and the headquarters of several smaller arts organisations. The newsroom looks out ove...

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