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Sep 15, 2015 · Murdoch snatched The Sun from under the nose of Robert Maxwell after winning the blessing of the print unions. This time, The Sun would look and feel very different. For starters, it would be...
By the mid-2000s The Scottish Sun had become the largest-selling newspaper in Scotland, overtaking the Record. At first the Scottish edition followed the London edition in supporting the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher, but in 1992 it declared support for Scottish independence.
Nov 13, 2019 · 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.
Apr 16, 2019 · The Sun has been a campaigning newspaper since its inception and continues to be so today, with recent reporting focusing on the plight of refuge shelters for abused women and on male suicide.
In 1978 The Sun overtook its closest rival The Mirror in the circulation war. In 1986 Mr Murdoch introduced new print technology and moved the Sun to Wapping. In 1997 the Sun returned to its...
Feb 11, 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.
In 1969, the young (ish) Australian owner of The News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, purchased the Sun for £800K. He transformed it from a broadsheet to a tabloid, with the first headline declaring ‘Horse Dope Sensation’, setting the tone for the sensationalist, soaraway Sun of later years.
