The Sun (United Kingdom)
The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp. It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. The Sun had the largest daily newspaper circulation in the United Kingdom, but was overtaken by freesheet rival Metro in March 2018.
Front page of The Sun, 7 October 2013 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper (and Sunday newspaper from 26 February 2012) |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | News UK Independent |
| Editor | Victoria Newton |
| Founded | 15 September 1964 |
| Political alignment | Conservatism Populism Right-wing politics Euroscepticism |
| Headquarters | 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF |
| Circulation | 1,210,915 (as of March 2020) |
| ISSN | 0307-2681 |
| OCLC number | 723661694 |
| Website | thesun |
The paper became a seven-day operation when The Sun on Sunday was launched in February 2012 to replace the closed News of the World, employing some of its former journalists. In March 2020, the average circulation for The Sun was 1.21 million, The Sun on Sunday 1,013,777.
The Sun has been involved in many controversies in its history, among the most notable being their coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Regional editions of the newspaper for Scotland (The Scottish Sun), Northern Ireland (The Sun), and the Republic of Ireland (The Irish Sun) are published in Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin, respectively. There is currently no separate Welsh edition of The Sun; readers in Wales receive the same edition as the readers in England.