James Johnstone (publisher), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

James Johnstone (publisher)

British newspaper proprietor

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1815

Date of Death: 21-Oct-1878

Profession: publisher

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About James Johnstone (publisher)

  • James Johnstone (26 June 1815 – 21 October 1878) was a British newspaper proprietor. He was born in London, the son of a Bankruptcy Court messenger, who he succeeded in 1842.
  • In 1861 he became head of Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, & Co., managers in chancery, bankrupts' accountants, and public auditors. In 1857 he bought the newspaper interests of Charles Baldwin, proprietor of the Morning Herald and the Standard for £16,500.
  • The daily circulation of the Standard had fallen to 700 and the business was in financial difficulty.
  • With the help of publisher John Maxwell, for a while his partner in the new enterprise, Johnstone re-issued the Standard as a morning paper on 29 June 1857, reducing its price to twopence and doubling its size to eight large pages.
  • On the same date he also started a high-priced Evening Herald and continued to print the Morning Herald as a fourpenny paper.
  • On 4 February 1858 the price of the Standard was reduced to a penny and an evening issue of the paper revived on 11 June 1860.
  • The Evening Herald was terminated on 27 May 1865 and the Morning Herald on 31 December 1869.
  • The Evening Standard was reformatted 1 January 1870 under the editorship of Charles Williams and in that year reached a circulation figure of 100,000 copies per day.
  • By 1869 Johnstone had repaid all his debts and was sole proprietor of the business. He died at Hooley House, Coulsdon, Surrey in 1878 and was buried in Coulsdon.
  • He had been married twice, and had children by each marriage.
  • One son, James Johnstone, junior, edited the Standard from 1872 to 1877.

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