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The Sun dominated the circulation figures for daily newspapers in the United Kingdom from the late 1970s, at times easily outpacing its nearest rivals, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail. For a brief period in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this lead was more than one million copies per day. [ 261]
- Early History: The Daily Herald Years
- The Emergence of The Sun
- Rupert Murdoch
- The Sun Today
- Political Stance
- Reporting of The Hillsborough Disaster
- Circulation of The Sun
The forerunner of the Sun newspaper was the Daily Herald, launched on 25th January 1911. The Daily Herald was initially an independent left wing paper, printed periodically during strike periods to offer its unconditional support to the strikers. The Daily Herald was printed in Manchester daily between January and April in 1911 and then from 15th A...
The first edition of the Sun was printed on 15th September 1964. This was the first time that a new daily paper had been published in the UK for 34 years. The newspaper was printed in broadsheet format with an orange logo, emerging during the rapidly changing world of the 1960s. Thus the front page announced: “The Sun is politically free. It will n...
On 15th November 1969, the newspaper was acquired by Rupert Murdoch, following an unsuccessful bid by Robert Maxwell. Two days after purchasing the paper, Murdoch re-launched the Sun in tabloid format. He also installed the Sun as the sister paper to the News of the World, which was printed on Sundays. The two newspapers maintained their link up un...
The Sun newspaper moved to full colour production for the first time on 28th January 2008 with the opening of three new printing plants. In 2012, the Sun began printing a Sunday newspaper which replaced the recently-closed News of the World newspaper.Some journalists who worked for the News of the World were employed to run the Sunday edition. Its ...
The paper has a record of supporting the governing party in the UK, although traditionally it is generally considered to have a centre-right political allegiance. The Sun supported the centre-left Labour Party during Tony Blair’s last three General Election wins, changing allegiance to him on 18th March 1997. In 1978, the Sun switched allegiance to...
The Sun has also been involved in many controversies, in particular its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster. Due to its claim that Liverpoolfans had pick-pocketed victims of the incident, many newsagents and readers in Liverpool boycotted the newspaper. This led to a 75% decrease in sales in the city, and the newspaper never...
From 2000-2009, the Sun was the top circulating newspaper in the UK, but since 2010 has been taken over by the Metro. The newspaper reached peak circulation in 1987 and began steadily declining after this year, with a 1,027,863 drop between 2010 and 2015. Despite circulation numbers dropping, the Sun reached its largest-ever online audience in 2019...
The Sun, a daily evening newspaper, was founded in 1792 by writer John Heriot, with the support of Prime Minister, William Pitt, and his government. The newspaper, during its early days, was subsidised by the government, and advocated a pro-government and anti-French revolutionary stance.
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15. Sept. 2015 · 15 September 1964: The Sun newspaper is launched. With reader numbers flagging, the once-popular Daily Herald newspaper was relaunched as The Sun on this day in 1964. When you purchase...
11. Feb. 2012 · A history of the Sun newspaper, including its early days as a broadsheet, its famous headlines and its journalists being arrested in a probe over corrupt payments.
19. Mai 2016 · The most recent additions to the list of digitised archives of British national newspapers are The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Independent and Independent on Sunday. These titles have only been available on our Reading Rooms since earlier this year.
