Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Compact (Tabloid)
Owner	Newsquest
Editor	Richard Walker
Founded	1999
Political allegiance	Centre-left
Price	GBP 1. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. A compact newspaper is a Broadsheet -quality newspaper printed in a Tabloid format especially in the United Kingdom. A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest With 300 titles to its name Newsquest is the second largest Publisher of regional and local Newspapers in the United Kingdom. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The centre-left (or center-left) is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals political parties or organizations (such as Think The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency 30
Headquarters	200 Renfield Street, Glasgow
Website: Sunday Herald

The Sunday Herald is an award winning Scottish Sunday newspaper launched on 7 February 1999. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. From the start it has combined a liberal stance with support for devolution. It has however been highly critical of some of the politicians within the Scottish Parliament, most notably former Scottish Conservative Party leader David McLetchie. The Scottish Parliament ( Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: Scottish Pairlament) is the devlolved national unicameral The Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party (informally the Scottish Conservative Party and often referred to as the Scottish Tories) is the part of David McLetchie (born 6 August 1952, Edinburgh) is a Scottish politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the

History

In early 1998 Scottish Media Group, then led by chairman Gus Macdonald, decided to create a Sunday sister for its existing national morning title The Herald, because the Glasgow-based media group was losing advertising revenue to rival newspaper publishers every Sunday. Angus John "Gus" Macdonald Lord Macdonald of Tradeston, CBE, PC (born 20 August 1940 in Larkhall, Scotland) The Herald is a national Broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom In March 1998 the media company's board appointed Andrew Jaspan, then the publisher and managing director of The Big Issue and a former editor of Scotland on Sunday, The Scotsman and The Observer to examine the business case for launching a new Sunday title. Andrew Jaspan, a British Journalist, was appointed in October 2004 as Editor-in-Chief of The Age, a Broadsheet daily newspaper Founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991, The Big Issue produces an award winning entertainment and current affairs The Scotsman is a Scottish national Newspaper, published in Edinburgh. The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The In October 1998 Scottish Media Group, which also owns the broadcaster STV, committed to putting £10 million ($18. STV is the brand used by both ITV licensees in Northern and Central Scotland formerly known as Grampian TV (now legally STV North Ltd 7 million) behind the new paper's launch.

Jaspan's launch team

Jaspan assembled an impressive, if unorthodox, team including former Hue & Cry front man Pat Kane, novelist and TV entrepreneur Muriel Gray and BBC political commentator Iain MacWhirter and designer Simon Cunningham. In Common law, a hue and cry ( Latin, hutesium et clamor, "a horn and shouting" was a process by which bystanders were summoned to assist This is an article about the Scottish musician For the American ice hockey player see Patrick Kane Pat Kane (born Patrick Kane Muriel Gray (born August 30 1958 in East Kilbride) is a Scottish Journalist and broadcaster. Other former BBC television and radio journalists who joined the title included Lesley Riddoch, Torcuil Crichton and Pennie Taylor. Lesley Riddoch (born 1963 in England) is a British radio broadcaster and journalist A number of former Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday staff also joined the new paper, as did several journalists from The Big Issue's Scottish edition. The Scotsman is a Scottish national Newspaper, published in Edinburgh. Scotland on Sunday is a Scottish Sunday Newspaper, published in Edinburgh by The Scotsman Publications Ltd and consequently assuming

The Sunday Herald was launched as a six section newspaper with the slogan "No ordinary Sunday" on 7 February 1999. Events 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio in which the Prince Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The use of the "f" word in the first edition of the magazine alienated older and more conservative readers, but the paper quickly won a following among more liberal-minded Scots. Social conservatism is a political or moral ideology that affirms the government's role in encouraging or enforcing traditional values or behaviors in the belief that these are what It also won a raft of awards for its journalism, design and photography, in the UK and internationally, and secured the former archbishop Richard Holloway and On the Waterfront scriptwriter Budd Schulberg as regular contributors. The Most Reverend Richard F Holloway is a Scottish Writer and broadcaster, and was formerly Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal On the Waterfront is a American Drama film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen. Budd Schulberg (born March 27 1914, in New York City, New York) is an American Screenwriter and Novelist. Its web version gained a large readership in the United States because of its consistent anti-George W. Bush and anti-Iraq War line. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing Military campaign

Sale to Newsquest

After having over-paid for acquisitions during the dotcom era, Scottish Media Group was in serious financial trouble by 2002. The company decided to sell its publishing arm, whose assets included The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times and magazines including Scottish Farmer, Boxing News and The Strad and a public auction, accompanied by a heated public debated, ensued. The Evening Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland.

When it looked like the right-wing Barclay brothers, owners of rival papers The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, were set to become the publishing group's owners, questions were raised in the Scottish Parliament. Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay (both born on 27 October, 1934) are British Businessmen. The Scottish Parliament ( Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: Scottish Pairlament) is the devlolved national unicameral Had Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay and Andrew Neil succeeded in acquiring the fledgling Sunday Herald, they would have closed it down to give a clear run to their own Scotland on Sunday title, and merged The Herald with The Scotsman. Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949 Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish Journalist and broadcaster. That their goals were anti-competitive was confirmed when an unsigned leader written by Jaspan making these claims went unchallenged. [1]. Determined to prevent the paper being acquired by tax exiles with no sympathy for its liberal ethos, Jaspan led a campaign to keep it out of their hands. This included lobbying senior Labour Party (UK) politicians at their September 2002 conference in Blackpool. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Blackpool (/ˈblækˌpul is a seaside town in Lancashire, England.

The campaign proved successful, with even the Financial Times questioning whether it was right for the Barclay twins to have a monopoly of quality papers published in Scotland. The Financial Times ( FT) is a British international business Newspaper. The Sunday Herald and related titles were sold instead to Newsquest (a Gannett company) in a £216 million ($414 million) deal. With 300 titles to its name Newsquest is the second largest Publisher of regional and local Newspapers in the United Kingdom. Gannett Company Inc ( is a publicly-traded media Holding company based in the United States. This was cleared by the UK Department of Trade and Industry in March 2003, partly because it was persuaded the papers would keep their editorial independence under Gannett's ownership and because of Gannett's creation of a new Scottish division to run the acquired papers from Glasgow. The Department of Trade and Industry was a United Kingdom government department which was disbanded with the announcement of the creation of the Department for Business Editorial independence is the freedom of editors to make decisions without interference from the owners of a publication The DTI report said: "We do not expect the transfer adversely to affect the current editorial freedom, the current editorial stance, content or quality of the SMG titles, accurate presentation of news or freedom of expression. " The deal completed on 5 April 2003. Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Jaspan resigned in 2004 to become editor of The Age in Melbourne, Australia. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Age is a Broadsheet daily Newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854 Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Richard Walker was appointed as his successor. Walker, 50, a former production journalist on both the Daily Record and Scotland on Sunday who has a strong flair for impactful design, had been with the title since its launch and had served as deputy to Jaspan for five years.

The Walker years

Walker took the Sunday Herald tabloid in November 2005 which brought a temporary uplift in circulation. A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest Sales have settled at 58,000 (source: Audit Bureau of Circulations [2]), and readership at 195,000 (source: National Readership Survey [3]). The Audit Bureau of Circulations ( ABC) of North America is a not-for-profit circulation-auditing organization The week before the Sunday Herald was launched in February 1999, the Barclays's Scotland on Sunday sold more than 130,000 copies. This has since plummeted to 68,000. If current trends continue the Newquest-owned title can be expected to overtake Scotland on Sunday, which was acquired by Johnston Press in January 2006, in sales by 2008.

Walker was behind the launch of the blog site Sundayheraldtalk. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of com[4] in September 2006. Soon afterwards relations between management and staff deteriorated and trade union the National Union of Journalists threatened strike action over a change to the timing of pay days, though this never materialised. Template talkInfobox Union for usage -->The National Union of Journalists ( NUJ) is a Trade union for The union was again enraged in April 2007 when the Sunday Herald's US owners declared they were looking for annual cost cuts of £3 million across the three papers in their Scottish stable. This was to be achieved through redundancies, the closure of sections (such as Sunday Herald magazine) and perhaps also merging The Herald and Sunday Herald into a seven-day publishing operation. The NUJ accused Tim Blott, managing director of Newsquest Herald & Times, of reneging on pledges over the maintenance editorial standards made to the Department of Trade & Industry at the time it purchased the newspapers in 2003. The Department of Trade and Industry was a United Kingdom government department which was disbanded with the announcement of the creation of the Department for Business

Taxigate

In April 2006 the Sunday Herald's Scottish political editor, Paul Hutcheon, won both Political Journalist of the Year and Journalist of the Year in the Scottish Press Awards for articles revealing that David McLetchie, leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, had abused taxpayers' money to pay for taxi fares for legal and party work. David McLetchie (born 6 August 1952, Edinburgh) is a Scottish politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the The Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party (informally the Scottish Conservative Party and often referred to as the Scottish Tories) is the part of Hutcheon made use of the Scottish Freedom of Information Act to establish his case, which ultimately led to McLetchie resigning both as Conservative leader and as a partner in Edinburgh law firm Tods Murray. The Freedom of Information (Scotland Act 2002 (2002 asp 13 was an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in 2002.

See also

• List of newspapers in Scotland
• Scottish Daily News

External links

• Sunday Herald
• Department of Trade and Industry report on the sale of the Sunday Herald to Gannett dated March 2003 [5]
• Article from Press Gazette on Paul Hutcheon's April 2006 award [6]