The Scotsman

The Scotsman
The Scotsman cover (11 May 2011)
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)National World
EditorAlan Young[1]
Founded1817
Political alignmentNone[2]
HeadquartersEdinburgh, Scotland, UK
Circulation7,710 (as of 2023)[3]
Sister newspapersEdinburgh Evening News
Scotland on Sunday
ISSN0307-5850
OCLC number614655655
Websitewww.scotsman.com

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its parent company, National World, also publishes the Edinburgh Evening News. It had an audited print circulation of 8,762 for July to December 2022.[4] Its website, Scotsman.com, had an average of 138,000 unique visitors a day as of 2017.[5] The title celebrated its bicentenary on 25 January 2017.

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  2. ^ "Readers Charter – JPIMedia Ltd".
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