| British National Newspapers |
UK national daily newspapers. Traditionally, UK newspapers could be split into more serious-minded newspapers, usually referred to as the broadsheets due to their large size, and sometimes known collectively as "the quality press", and less serious newspapers, generally known as tabloids, and collectively as "the popular press", which have tended to focus more on celebrity coverage and human interest stories rather than political reporting or overseas news. The tabloids in turn have been divided into the more sensationalist mass market titles, or "red tops", such as The Sun and The Mirror, and the middle-market papers, The Daily Express and The Daily Mail.
However, both The Independent and The Times have switched in recent years to a compact format, not much bigger than that used by the tabloids. The Guardian switched in September 2005 to what is described as a "Berliner" format, just slightly larger than a compact. Its Sunday stablemate The Observer has since followed suit.
Other Sunday broadsheets, including The Sunday Times, which tend to have a large amount of supplementary sections, have kept their larger size. The national Sunday titles usually have a different layout and style to their weekly sister papers, and are produced by separate journalistic and editorial staff.
All the major UK newspapers currently have websites, some of which provide free access. The Times and The Sunday Times have a paywall requiring payment on a per-day or per-month basis for non-subscribers. The Financial Times business daily also has limited access for non-subscribers. |
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| Daily Express The Daily Express is a British tabloid newspaper. It is a middle-market title, the flagship title of Express Newspapers and is currently owned by Richard Desmond. |
| Daily Mail The Daily Mail is a British, daily middle market tabloid newspaper. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper, |
| Daily Mirror The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. Twice in its history, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was changed to read simply The Mirror, which is how the paper is usually referred to in popular parlance. |
| Daily Star The Daily Star is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom. It was first published on 2 November 1978, and was the first new national paper to be launched since the Daily Mirror in 1903. For many years it published Monday to Saturday but on 15 September 2002 it expanded to bring out a Sunday edition, the Daily Star Sunday. |
| Daily Telegraph The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 as the Daily Telegraph and Courier, and is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay. |
| Financial Times The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed at 22 sites. |
| The Guardian The Guardian (formerly known as The Manchester Guardian) is a British national daily newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Founded in 1821, it is unique among major British daily newspapers in being owned by a foundation (the Scott Trust, via the Guardian Media Group). It is known for its left-of-centre political stance. |
| The Independent The Independent is a British newspaper published by Alexander Lebedev's Independent Print Limited. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition; The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. Originally a broadsheet newspaper, since 2003 it has been published in a tabloid format. The Independent is regarded as leaning to the left politically, although it has not affiliated itself to any political party and a range of views can be found on its editorial and comment pages. |
News of The World The News of the World is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom every Sunday. It is published by News Group Newspapers of News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and is the Sunday sister paper of The Sun.
The newspaper concentrates on celebrity-based scoops and populist news. Its fondness for sex scandals gained it the nicknames "News of the Screws" and "Screws of the World". It also has a reputation for exposing celebrities as drug users or criminals and setting up insiders and journalists in disguise to provide either video or photographic evidence. |
| The Observer The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. |
| Sunday Mirror The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday edition of the Mirror newspaper. It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and changed to become the Sunday Mirror in 1963. |
| Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded independently and came under common ownership only in 1966. Rupert Murdoch's News International acquired the papers in 1981. Each year The Sunday Times publishes a Rich List—which boosts sales. |
| The Sun The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland (where it is known as The Irish Sun), it is the biggest-selling newspaper in the UK. A separate Scottish Sun is published and printed in Glasgow with a circulation of about 339,000 copies daily (September 2010) The total daily readership is approximately 7,700,000. By circulation it is the tenth biggest newspaper in any language in the world. |
The Times The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International. News International is entirely owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert Murdoch. |
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| English Regional Newpapers |
| South of England |
| Bristol Evening Post The Bristol Evening Post is a newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the whole of Greater Bristol, Northern Somerset and South Gloucestershire. |
| Evening Standard The Evening Standard is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the southeast of England, with coverage of national and international news and a strong emphasis on City of London finance. In October 2009 the paper ended a 180-year history of paid circulation and doubled its circulation as part of a change in its business plan. |
Portsmouth News Portsmouth News is the only paid-for newspaper in Portsmouth, England. It is produced by Johnston Press, owners of Portsmouth Publishing & Printing at their headquarters in Hilsea, Portsmouth. Its official title is simply The News, though it was formerly known as The Portsmouth Evening News and is still popularly referred to as such.
"The News" is printed every day of the week except Sunday. There is also a weekly sports paper, The Sports Mail which follows the fortunes of local club Portsmouth F.C. and local sports news. |
Western Daily Press The Western Daily Press is a regional newspaper covering parts of South West England, mainly Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset as well as the metropolitan areas of Bath and North East Somerset and the Bristol area. It is published Monday to Saturday in Bristol.
The majority of its readers are in rural areas, small towns and villages throughout the region and the paper's coverage of rural, agricultural and countryside issues is particularly strong. |
| Western Morning News The Western Morning News is a politically independent daily regional newspaper founded in 1860 and covering Devon and Cornwall and parts of Somerset and Dorset. |
| Midlands & The North |
| Birmingham Post & Mail The Birmingham Post newspaper was originally published under the name Daily Post in Birmingham, in 1857 by John Frederick Feeney. It was the largest selling broadsheet in the West Midlands, though it faced little if any competition in this category. It changed to tabloid size in 2008. |
| Coventry Evening Telegraph The Coventry Telegraph is a local tabloid newspaper. Originally called The Midland Daily Telegraph, it was founded in 1891 by William Isaac Iliffe as Coventry's first daily newspaper, a four-page broadsheet newspaper originally sold for a half penny. It changed its name to the Coventry Evening Telegraph on 17 November 1941, and to the Coventry Telegraph on 2 October 2006. As of 2010, it is part of the Trinity Mirror group, the biggest regional newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom. |
| Derby Telepgrah The Derby Telegraph, formerly the Derby Evening Telegraph, is a daily tabloid newspaper printed and distributed in Derby. |
Evening Chronicle The Evening Chronicle is a daily, evening newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne, covering Tyne and Wear, southern Northumberland and northern County Durham. It was founded in 1885 by Joseph Cowen. It is published by ncjMedia, a division of Trinity Mirror.
The Chronicle was always a broadsheet, from its inception right up until 8 October 1997, when it became a tabloid-sized paper. The newspaper concentrates on local news, largely human interest stories and sport. Circulation increases on Thursdays with the publication of a large jobs section. |
| Express & Star The Express & Star is an evening newspaper based in Wolverhampton, England, published Monday to Saturday in nine different editions covering the Black Country, Birmingham and the wider West Midlands area from Tamworth to Kidderminster. |
Hull Daily Mail The Hull Daily Mail is the local daily newspaper for Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and is published along with the free weekly, Hull Advertiser.
The paper is owned by Northcliffe Media, one of the largest regional publishers in the UK, and owned by the Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and the Metro free daily paper. |
| Leicester Mercury The Leicester Mercury is a regional newspaper, owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust, for the city of Leicester and the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. |
| Liverpool Daily Post The Liverpool Daily Post is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside. It is published Monday to Friday and is published in Merseyside, Cheshire, and North Wales editions, and is a morning paper. |
| Manchester Evening News The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester. It is published every day except Sunday and is owned by Trinity Mirror plc. |
| Nottingham Post The Nottingham Post (formerly called the Nottingham Evening Post) is an regional tabloid newspaper which serves Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and parts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. |
The Sentinel The Sentinel is a daily regional newspaper circulating in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire area. It is currently owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust under the Northcliffe Media publishing group and based at Sentinel House, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent.
It is the sixth biggest-selling regional newspaper in the UK and is the only newspaper delivering daily news and features on professional football clubs Stoke City, Port Vale and Crewe Alexandra.
The publication, which became a morning paper in March 2009, is printed from Monday to Saturday and has three editions daily – a main edition, a Cheshire edition and a Staffordshire Moorlands edition. |
| Shropshire Star The Shropshire Star is a regional newspaper covering the whole of Shropshire, plus parts of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire, the Llangollen area and northern Powys. |
| The Star Serving South Yorkshire. |
Yorkshire Evening Post The Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP) is a daily evening publication published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The paper provides a regional slant on the day's news, and traditionally provides close reporting on Leeds United and Leeds Rhinos as well as the Yorkshire County Cricket Club team.
The newspaper generally has a liberal/centre left bias. Despite its title which implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds based paper, however is widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well. |
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| Scotland |
| The Courier & Advertiser The Courier & Advertiser, more commonly known as simply The Courier, is a broadsheet newspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland. It is printed in six daily editions: the Early edition, and regional editions for Fife, north-east Fife, Perth, Angus and Dundee. |
Edinburgh Evening News The Edinburgh Evening News is a local newspaper based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is published daily (except on Sundays).
It is owned by Johnston Press, which also owns The Scotsman and many regional titles throughout the UK.
Much of the copy contained in the Evening News concerns local issues such as transport, health, the local council and crime in Edinburgh and the Lothians. |
| Daily Record The Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. |
| Evening Times The Evening Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, the paper, an evening sister paper of The Herald, was established in 1876. The paper's slogan is "Let Glasgow Flourish". |
| The Herald The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, and available throughout Scotland. |
| The Scotsman The Scotsman is a Scottish national newspaper, published in Edinburgh. Since 16 August 2004 it has been printed in compact format. Its sister Sunday publication, which remains broadsheet, is titled Scotland on Sunday. The Scotsman Publications Ltd also produces the Edinburgh Evening News and the Herald & Post series of free newspapers in Edinburgh, Fife, and West Lothian. |
Scotland On Sunday Scotland on Sunday is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by The Scotsman Publications Ltd and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate The Scotsman. It is printed in broadsheet format.
Whilst technically being Scotland's most right-leaning Scottish Sunday quality, a true diversity in its line makes it more akin to centrist politics; visible in the variety of the stances taken by columns within the Insight opinion section, as well as featuring contributions from figures such as a former affiliate of the left-leaning ruling party, the SNP. |
| Sunday Mail The Sunday Mail is a Scottish tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. It is the sister paper of the Daily Record and is owned by Trinity Mirror and as such has a left-wing outlook which in turn tends to guide Scottish political debate in that direction |
| The Press & Journal The Press and Journal, often called the P&J, is a daily regional newspaper serving the northern counties of Scotland including the cities of Aberdeen and Inverness. Established in 1748 as the Aberdeen Journal, it is Scotland's oldest daily newspaper. |
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| Wales |
| News Wales.co.uk News site. |
North Wales Weekly News The North Wales Weekly News is one of a group of newspapers published weekly in Llandudno and between all titles covering most of coastal North Wales. Much of the material published is shared between a number of other titles but with the addition of some local material relevant to each specific title. Sister English language titles include, Abergele Visitor, Bangor and Anglesey Mail, Caernarfon Herald, Denbighshire Visitor, Flintshire Chronicle, Holyhead and Anglesey Mail, Rhyl Visitor and Wrexham Chronicle. There is also one primarily Welsh language paper, Yr Herald.
The papers are owned and managed by Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales Limited who also publish the Liverpool Daily Post and its Welsh variant the Daily Post. |
North Wales Weekly News The North Wales Weekly News is one of a group of newspapers published weekly in Llandudno and between all titles covering most of coastal North Wales. Much of the material published is shared between a number of other titles but with the addition of some local material relevant to each specific title. Sister English language titles include, Abergele Visitor, Bangor and Anglesey Mail, Caernarfon Herald, Denbighshire Visitor, Flintshire Chronicle, Holyhead and Anglesey Mail, Rhyl Visitor and Wrexham Chronicle. There is also one primarily Welsh language paper, Yr Herald.
The papers are owned and managed by Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales Limited who also publish the Liverpool Daily Post and its Welsh variant the Daily Post. |
| South Wales Argus The South Wales Argus is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Newport, Wales. The Argus is distributed in Newport and Monmouthshire and some of the surrounding districts. |
| South Wales Evening Post The South Wales Evening Post is a tabloid daily newspaper that distributed in South West Wales. The paper has three daily editions - Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire and is published by South West Wales Publications, part of the Northcliffe Media group. |
The Leader The Leader is a daily paper in Wales distributed on week mornings. It combines local and national news in order to create a morning newspaper.
There are three Leader Papers in the north-east of Wales and the borders: Chester, Flintshire, and Wrexham. |
| Western Telegraph The Western Telegraph is a Welsh regional newspaper covering Pembrokeshire and bordering Carmarthenshire. |
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| Northern Ireland |
| Belfast Telegraph The Belfast Telegraph is a daily evening newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland by Independent News and Media. |
| Irish News.com (Belfast) News site |
| The News Letter The News Letter is one of Northern Ireland's main daily newspapers, published Monday to Saturday. It is the oldest English language general daily newspaper still in publication in the world, having first been printed in 1737. The newspaper's editorial stance and readership, while originally republican] is strongly unionist. |
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| Minorities |
| The Jewish Chronicle The Jewish Chronicle ("The JC") is a London-based Jewish newspaper. Founded in 1841, it is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. |
| Muslim News.co.uk News and Views of Muslims in the United Kingdom |
| Voice-online.co.uk The Voice has served the black community by giving them a voice where other mainstream newspapers have failed. It has over the years been a thorn in the side of the establishment, campaigning on numerous issues and championing the causes of black people nationwide. |
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