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. At that time it was owned by the Westminster Press 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.
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