<Tr> <Th> Headquarters </Th> <Td> Wapping, London </Td> </Tr> <P> Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995 . </P> <P> Today, with the American newspaper USA Today as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front - page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18p (equivalent to 48p in 2016), it was a middle - market tabloid, a rival to the long - established Daily Mail and Daily Express . It pioneered computer photo - typesetting and full - colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce photographs in black and white . The colour was initially crude, produced on equipment which had no facility for colour proofing, so the first view of the colour was on the finished product . However, it forced the conversion of all UK national newspapers to electronic production and colour printing . The newspaper's motto, hung in the newsroom, was "propa truth, not propaganda". </P> <P> Launched by regional newspaper entrepreneur Eddy Shah, it was bought by Tiny Rowland's Lonrho within four months . (Shah would launch the short - lived, unsuccessful national tabloid The Post in 1988 .) Alastair Campbell was political editor and his long - term partner, Fiona Millar was news editor . </P>

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