The Star (1888–1960)

The Star was a London evening newspaper founded in 1888. It ceased publication in 1960 when it was merged with the Evening News, as part of the same takeover that saw the News Chronicle absorbed into the Daily Mail. For some years afterward, the merged paper was called The Evening News and Star.

Editors

 * 1888: T. P. O'Connor
 * 1890: Henry W. Massingham
 * 1891: Ernest Parke
 * 1908: James Douglas
 * 1920: Wilson Pope
 * 1930: Edward Chattaway
 * 1936: Robin Cruickshank
 * 1941: Arthur Leslie Cranfield
 * 1957: Ralph McCarthy

Jack the Ripper
The Star achieved early prominence and high circulation by sensationalising the Whitechapel murders of 1888–1891. Some suspect that one of its journalists wrote the Dear Boss letter that gave Jack the Ripper his name to boost circulation numbers.