Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Compact |
Owner(s) | National World |
Editor | Alan Young[1] |
Founded | 1817 |
Political alignment | None[2] |
Headquarters | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
Circulation | 7,710 (as of 2023)[3] |
Sister newspapers | Edinburgh Evening News Scotland on Sunday |
ISSN | 0307-5850 |
OCLC number | 614655655 |
Website | www |
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.