The Sunday Times (UK)
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| description | British Sunday newspaper |
| language | English |
| publishing company | News Corporation |
| First edition | 1821 |
| Frequency of publication | Sunday |
| Sold edition | approx. 1,300,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Martin Ivens |
| Web link | thesundaytimes.co.uk |
| ISSN (print) | 0956-1382 |
The Sunday Times is the largest Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom and Ireland with a political orientation reported as center-right and therefore conservative . It has a circulation of around 1.3 million copies. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers , which also publishes The Times . Times Newspapers is a subsidiary of News Corporation .
history
The newspaper was founded in 1821 as The New Observer and has appeared as the Sunday Times since 1822 . In 1893 it was taken over by Rachel Beer and in 1908 by Alfred Harmsworth . In 1959 it became part of the Kemsley Group, which was owned by Lord Thomson at that time . Thomson also took over The Times in 1966 and founded Times Newspapers Limited to publish the two newspapers .
News International , part of News Corporation , took it over in 1981.
editor
- Joseph Hatton (1874-1881)
- Rachel Beer (1893-1904)
- Denis Hamilton (1961–1966)
- Harold Evans (1967-1981)
- Frank Giles (1981-1983)
- Andrew Neil (1983-1994)
- John Witherow (1995-2012)
- Martin Ivens (since 2013)
Well-known journalists
Web links
- Official website (English)