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| Type | Daily newspaper (and Sunday newspaper from 26 February 2012) |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | News UK |
| Editor | Victoria Newton[3] |
| Founded | 15 September 1964[4] |
| Political alignment | Conservatism[a] Populism[6] Right-wing politics[7] Euroscepticism |
| Headquarters | 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF |
| Circulation | 1,210,915 (as of March 2020)[8] |
| ISSN | 0307-2681 |
| OCLC number | 723661694 |
| Website | thesun |
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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.[9][10] 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.[11] The Sun had the largest daily newspaper circulation in the United Kingdom,[9] but was overtaken by freesheet rival Metro in March 2018.[12]
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.[13][14][15] In March 2020, the average circulation for The Sun was 1.21 million, The Sun on Sunday 1,013,777.[8]
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.
- ^ Morse, Felicity (7 October 2013). "The Sun newspaper's '1,200 killed by mental patients' headline labelled 'irresponsible and wrong'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
- ^ Chalabi, Mona (7 October 2013). "The Sun says 1,200 people have been killed by 'mental patients' – is it true?". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
- ^ Mayhew, Freddy (6 February 2020). "Shake-up at Murdoch newspapers as Sun editor Tony Gallagher moves to Times". Press Gazette. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ Associated Press, "New Daily Paper Hits Newsstands In Great Britain", The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Thursday 17 September 1964, Volume LXXI, Number 15, page A-6.
- ^ Larissa Allwork, ed. (2015). Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational: The Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the International Task Force. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 416. ISBN 9781472587152.
... responses varied from the centre-left (The Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Sun) to the centre-right (The Daily Mail, The Times, ...
- ^ The Sun is generally evaluated as showing a populist tone:
- D. Albertazzi, D. McDonnell, ed. (2007). Twenty-First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy. Springer. p. 192. ISBN 9780230592100.
According to Daniel Collings and Anthony Seldon (2001: 628), policy under Hague seemed to be designed to appeal to populist tabloids such as The Sun, whose support for Blair in 1997 had been viewed as critical.
- Jim McGuigan, ed. (2002). Cultural Populism. Routledge. p. 181. ISBN 9781134924110.
Through a close reading of the Sun during the late 1980s, Searle elaborated on the interconnected themes of racism, xenophobia and populism.
- Luca Manucci, ed. (2019). Populism and Collective Memory: Comparing Fascist Legacies in Western Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9781000690576.
... On the other hand, favourable opportunity structures subsequently developed: indeed, there has been a decline in identification with, and support for, the two main parties, and tabloids such as The Sun have a fierce populist agenda ...
- D. Albertazzi, D. McDonnell, ed. (2007). Twenty-First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy. Springer. p. 192. ISBN 9780230592100.
- ^ "Muslim grassroots activism: Importance of working with women and schools" (PDF). europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
The Sun is a right wing newspaper [...]
- ^ a b Tobitt, Charlotte; Majid, Aisha (25 January 2023). "National press ABCs: December distribution dive for freesheets Standard and City AM". Press Gazette. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ^ a b "The Sun – readership data". News Works. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ "The Times Facts and figures". Newspaper Marketing Agency. Archived from the original on 5 February 2005.
- ^ "On this day: 1964 The Sun Newspaper is Born". BBC News. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ "The Sun is toppled as Britain's biggest newspaper". The Economist. London. 22 March 2018.
- ^ "Rupert Murdoch's email to staff announcing Sun on Sunday launch – full text". The Guardian. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ Ben Quinn and Lisa O'Carroll, "Rupert Murdoch to supervise next week's birth of Sun on Sunday", The Guardian, Monday 20 February 2012.
- ^ Greenslade, Roy (26 February 2012). "Is it Take a Break or Hello? No, it's that new Sun on Sunday". The Guardian.
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