The Sun

Also known as Sun, thesun.co.uk, The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun (UK)

British tabloid newspaper

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Key facts

Type: Daily newspaper (and Sunday newspaper from 26 February 2012)
Format: Tabloid
Owner: News UK
Editor: Victoria Newton
Founded: 15 September 1964 ; 61 years ago ( 1964-09-15 )
Political alignment: Conservatism , Populism , Right-wing politics , Euroscepticism
Headquarters: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
Circulation: 1,210,915 (as of March 2020)
Issn: 0307-2681
Website: thesun .co .uk

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Wikidata facts

Official website: thesun.co.uk
Image: 'The Sun' bus (9661587335).jpg

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inception: 1964-00-00
Commons category: The Sun (United Kingdom)
title: The Sun
quantity: 2806746
social media followers: 6320000
start time: 1964-00-00
total produced: 1210915

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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. 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. The Sun had the largest daily newspaper circulation in the United Kingdom, but was overtaken by freesheet rival Metro in March 2018.

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 and employed some of its former journalists. In March 2020, the average circulation for The Sun was 1.21 million, The Sun on Sunday 1,013,777.