The Times is a daily national
newspaper published in the
United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as
The Daily Universal Register.
The newspaper was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to compact size in 2004 partly in an attempt to appeal to younger readers and partly to appeal to commuters using public transport. An American edition has been published since June 6, 2006.[4]
The newspaper's cover price in the United Kingdom is 90p on weekdays (30p for students at some university campus shops) and £1.50 on Saturday. The Times' sister paper, The Sunday Times, is a broadsheet and priced at £2.00. Although The Times and The Sunday Times are both owned by News International, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp, they do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only shared the same owner since 1967. In November 2006 The Times began printing headlines in its new font, Times Modern.
The certified average circulation figures for November 2005 show that The Times sold 692,581 copies per day. This was the highest achieved under the last editor, Robert Thomson, and ensured that the newspaper remained ahead of The Daily Telegraph in terms of full rate sales, although The Daily Telegraph remains the market leader for broadsheets, with a circulation of 905,955 copies. Tabloid newspapers, such as The Sun and middle-market newspapers such as the Daily Mail, at present outsell both papers with a circulation of around 3,274,855 and 2,353,807 respectively.[5]
