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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | News International |
| Editor | John Witherow |
| Founded | 1864 |
| Political allegiance | Centre-right |
| Price | £2. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Broadsheet is the largest of the various Newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more News International Ltd is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation. John Witherow is editor of the Sunday Times, Britain's biggest selling quality newspaper The centre-right is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals political parties or organizations (such as Think tanks whose views The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency 00 £1. The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency 90 (Scotland) |
| Headquarters | Wapping, London |
| Circulation | 1,202,235 [1] |
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| Website: www.sunday-times.co.uk | |
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While its sister paper, The Times, holds a substantially smaller circulation than the largest-circulation UK quality daily, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times occupies a dominant position in the quality Sunday market; its 1. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. 3m circulation equals The Sunday Telegraph, The Observer and The Independent on Sunday combined. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. It maintains the larger broadsheet format and has said that it will continue to do so. Broadsheet is the largest of the various Newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more
Its price rise to £2 from £1. 80 in September 2006, the second price rise in two years, has started to cause a slight month-on-month and year-on-year decline in its readership. This has been following a general decline in readership of all Sunday newspapers. To combat this rivals such as The Independent on Sunday relaunched in June 2007 with a more concise approach to its content and sections, while the The Observer has relaunched in a berliner format with colour throughout all sections. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media.
The launch of new News International printers in Summer 2008 will allow for full colour throughout all pages in the paper.
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History
The paper was launched as The New Observer in 1821, choosing a name similar to the existing Observer newspaper although the two newspapers were unrelated. The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The It was renamed The Independent Observer and then in 1822 The Sunday Times, again without any relationship between itself and The Times. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. [1]
Rachel Beer acquired the paper in 1893, and Alfred Harmsworth acquired it in 1908. Rachel Beer (1858-1927 granddaughter of David Sassoon, was editor of The Observer (1891-1904 and owner-editor of The Sunday Times Alfred Charles William Harmsworth 1st Viscount Northcliffe ( 15 July[[ 865]] - 14 August[[ 922]] rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper By 1959 it was part of the Kemsley group of newspapers, which was acquired in that year by Lord Thomson. Sir Roy Herbert Thomson 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet GBE, DLitt, D In 1966 Thomson also acquired The Times and formed Times Newspapers Ltd to publish the two papers.
Rupert Murdoch's News International acquired the Times titles in 1981, but the Conservative government never referred the purchase to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, mainly because the previous owners, The Thomson Corporation, had threatened to close the papers down if they were not taken over by someone else within an allotted time, and it was feared that any legal delay to Murdoch's takeover might lead to the two titles' demise. is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American The Competition Commission is an independent body responsible for investigating Mergers market shares and conditions and the regulation of firms under United Kingdom This article is primarily about Thomson prior to its 2008 merger with Reuters This was despite the fact that the takeover gave Murdoch the control of four national newspapers; The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and the News of the World. The Sun is a Tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language The News of the World is a British Tabloid Newspaper published every Sunday News Corp also owns the Fox Network. News International is the majority shareholder of BSkyB and James Murdoch is CEO. British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB — Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the James Murdoch (born 13 December 1972 in United Kingdom) is the Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation, Europe and Asia including the British Newspapers
Control by News Corporation ended the editorial reign of Harold Evans, bringing to a close a period in the paper's history when it was a leading campaigning, investigative and liberal-leaning newspaper. Sir Harold Matthew Evans (born June 28 1928) is a British-born Journalist and Writer who was editor of The Sunday Times Under Andrew Neil's editorship in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Sunday Times took a strongly Thatcherite and Wienerite slant, and became particularly strongly associated with the view that anti-commercialism among those who traditionally voted for the Conservative Party had actually worked alongside traditional socialism in undermining the UK's economic competitiveness. Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949 Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish Journalist and broadcaster. Thatcherism is the system of political thought attributed to the governments of Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 Martin Joel Wiener (born 1941 is an American Academic and Author. Commercialism, in its original meaning is the practices methods aims and spirit of Commerce or Business. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution In this area it strongly opposed the traditional conservatism expounded by Peregrine Worsthorne at the rival Sunday Telegraph. Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born December 22, 1923) is a British journalist writer and broadcaster The Sunday Telegraph is a British Broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1961
Major stories
It published the faked Hitler Diaries (1983), believing them to be genuine. In April 1983, the German news Magazine Stern published extracts from what purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler, Other notable stories include:
- The thalidomide scandal in the 1960s. Thalidomide is a Sedative - Hypnotic, and Multiple myeloma Medication.
- The paper sponsored Francis Chichester's single-handed circumnavigation of the world under sail in 1966–1967, and the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in 1968–1969, both of which were sensational events in the UK. Sir Francis Chichester ( September 17 1901 &ndash August 26 1972) aviator and sailor was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming The sport of single-handed sailing is Sailing with only one Crewmember (ie The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race was a
- Israeli Nuclear Weapons—using information from Mordechai Vanunu, The Sunday Times in 1986 published information that said that Israel had manufactured more than 100 nuclear warheads. Mordechai Vanunu (מרדכי ואנונו born in Marrakech, Morocco on October 13 1954 is an Israeli former nuclear For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion.
- Uncaring Thatcher—The Sunday Times ran a story claiming that Queen Elizabeth II was upset with the style of Margaret Thatcher's leadership. For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 This was notable as the monarch generally maintains a strictly impartial role in UK politics. The politics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland takes place in the framework of a Constitutional monarchy, in which the Monarch is Head
- The "cash-for-questions" investigation under John Major's government. Sir John Major KG CH ACIB (born 29 March 1943 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- On 12 July 1987 The Sunday Times began serialisation of the book Spycatcher, the memoirs of an MI5 agent, which had been banned in the UK. Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) SpyCatcher is an anti- Spyware program developed by Tenebril, for Microsoft Windows. The paper successfully challenged subsequent legal action by the UK government, winning its case at the European Court of Human Rights in 1991. The European Court of Human Rights ( ECtHR) (Cour européenne des droits de l’homme in Strasbourg was established under the European Convention on Human Rights [2]
The Sunday Times publishes The Sunday Times Rich List, an annual survey of the wealthiest people in Britain and Ireland, equivalent to the Forbes 400 list in the USA. The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1000 wealthiest people or families in the United Kingdom, updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement The Forbes 400 or 400 Richest People (first published in 1982) is a list published by Forbes Magazine of the Wealthiest 400 Americans The paper also publishes an annual league table of British universities and a similar one for Irish universities. League tables of British universities which rank the performances of universities in the United Kingdom on a number of criteria have been published every year by The This is a list of Colleges and universities in the Republic of Ireland, some colleges are constituent colleges of universities It also publishes the Sunday Times Bestseller List of bestselling books in Britain.
Irish Edition
During the 1990s the paper began to develop a separate version for the Republic of Ireland. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. A Dublin office was opened in 1993, run by Alan Ruddock and John Burns. Originally the Irish edition extended to little more than a small number of news stories, some columnists such as Eoghan Harris, and the inclusion of Irish cinema listings and schedules for RTÉ One and RTÉ Two in the Culture section of the paper; but by 2005, a separate printing plant, journalistic offices, and many Irish journalists including Liam Fay, Richard Oakley, Mark Tighe and Colin Coyle who write solely for the Irish edition have led to most of the main news section as well as all other sections being editionalised for Ireland. Eoghan Harris is an Irish journalist columnist and politician RTÉ One (Irish RTÉ a hAon) is the Republic of Ireland 's oldest and most popular Television channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Radio Telefís RTÉ Two (Irish RTÉ a Dó) (known from 1988 to 2004 as Network 2, RTÉ Network Two, RTÉ2 or N2) is the Republic of Ireland Liam Fay is an Irish journalist for The Sunday Times (UK (Irish Edition
The Irish issue sells about 140,000 copies per week across the paper's entire circulation area, which includes a separate edition for Northern Ireland edited by Liam Clarke. The current Irish editor is Frank Fitzgibbon, a founder of the Sunday Business Post. The Sunday Business Post is an Irish national Sunday Newspaper published by Post Publications Limited. For many years, the website of The Sunday Times carried the main stories from the Irish edition but that now (21 January 2007) seems to have been dropped.
Editors
- Joseph Hatton (1874–81)
- Rachel Beer (1893–1904)
- Denis Hamilton (1961–66)
- Harold Evans (1967–81)
- Frank Giles (1981–83)
- Andrew Neil (1983–1994)
- John Witherow (1995– )
See also
References
- ^ Standard Certificate of Circulation - The Sunday Times (PDF). Rachel Beer (1858-1927 granddaughter of David Sassoon, was editor of The Observer (1891-1904 and owner-editor of The Sunday Times Sir Harold Matthew Evans (born June 28 1928) is a British-born Journalist and Writer who was editor of The Sunday Times Frank Giles (born 31 July 1919 was editor of the British Sunday Times newspaper from 1981-83 having served as deputy editor under his predecessor Harold Evans Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949 Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish Journalist and broadcaster. John Witherow is editor of the Sunday Times, Britain's biggest selling quality newspaper The British International Motor Show is an Automobile show held biennially in the United Kingdom. The Funday Times was a section of the UK Sunday Times. It was intended mainly for children and included several comics including Dennis Mrs Mills Solves All Your Problems is a popular satirical and fictional agony aunt column in the Sunday Times Style magazine in which readers write or email Mrs Mills and she ABC Ltd. (1 May 2008). Retrieved on 24 May 2008.
- ^ THE SUNDAY TIMES v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (No. 2) - 13166/87 [1991] ECHR 50 (26 November 1991)
External links
- Official website
- The Guardian, 7 July 2003, "John Witherow"
- The Guardian, 17 February 2003, "Their Master's Voice"
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