IMPORTANT WORLD NEWSPAPERS
BRITISH NEWSPAPERS
THE TIMES
TYPE- DAILY NEWSPAPER.
BRITISH DAILY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER
FORMAT- COMPACT (4.25x 6.75” OR 108x171MM.)
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH.
OWNER- NEWS UK , 1981 (AT PRESENT )
EDITOR- JOHAN WITHEROW (ACTING, From 2013) - 23RD.
EDITOR. (AFTER QUITS JAMES HARDING)
FOUNDED- 1ST. JANUARY 1785, FROM LONDON. UNDER
THE TITLE “THE DAILY UNIVARSAL REGISTER”IT BECAME THE TIMES ON 1St JANUARY.
1788.
HEADQUARTERS- WAPPING, LONDON, UK.
CIRCULATION- 394,448 (March 2014)
SISTER
NEWSPAPERS- THE SUNDAY
TIMES. (FOUNDED 1821, PUBLISHED BY TIMES NEWSPAPERS.), AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION- 857,435 (MARCH
2013)
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
THE
FIRST OWNER WAS JOHAN WALTER.
·
IN
1981 THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY WERE BOUGHT FROM ROY THOMSON
BY RUPERT MURDOCH’S NEWS
INTERNATIONAL.
·
NEWS
CORP UK TRADING AS NEWS UK FORMERLY NEWS INTERNATIONAL.
·
TIMES
HAVE HAD THE EIGHT OWNERS SINCE 1785 TO AT PRESENT.
·
THE
TIMES IS THE FIRST NEWSPAPER TO HAVE BORN THAT NAME, LEADING IT TO NUMEROUS
OTHER PAOERS AROUND THE W0RLD, INCLUDING THE TIMES OF INDIA, THE STRAITS TIMES,
THE NEW YORK TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, THE
TIMES(MALTA), THE TIMES OF ISRAEL.
·
TIMES
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT –
FIRST APPEARED IN 1902 AS A SUPPLEMENT TO TIMES, BECOMING A SEPARATELY PAID FOR
WEEKLY LITERATURE AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE IN 1914.
·
THE
TIMES SCIENCE REVIEW-
BETWEEN 1951 AND 1966 PUBLISHED A SEPARATELY PAID FOR QUARERLY SCIENCE REVIEW.
·
TIMES
ATLASES- TIMES ATLASES HAVE BEEN PRODUCED SINCE 1895. THEY ARE CURRENTLY PRODUCED
BY COLLIONS BARTHOLOMEW IMPRINT OF HAPPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS.
THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH
TYPE- DAILY
NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BROADSHEET
(22” OR 560 MILLIMETRES)
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH.
OWNER- TELEGRAPH MEDIA GROUP.
EDITOR- LAN MAC GREGOR
FOUNDED- 29 JUNE 1855 (COLONEL ARTHUR B. SLEIGH), THE YOUNG TELEGRAPH (WEEKLY
SECTION OF THE DAILY TELIGRAPH)
HEADQUARTERS- 111 BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD, LONDON , SW1W ODT..
CIRCULATION- 523,048 (MARCH 2014)
SISTER
NEWSPAPERS- THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (1961) .
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
SINCE 2004 HAS BEEN
OWNED BY DAVID AND FREDERICK BARCLAY.
·
MY TELEGRAPH (LAUNCHED
IN MAY 2007) OFFERS A PLATEFORM FOR READERS TO HAVE OWN BLOG. SAVE ARTICLES AND
NETWORK WITH OTHER READERS.
·
THE YOUNG TELEGRAPH WAS
A WEEKLY SECTION OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED AS A 14 PAGE SUPPLEMENT IN
THE WEEKNED EDITIONOF THE NEWSPAPER.
·
THE YOUNG TELEGRAPH
FEATURED A MIXTURE OF NEWS, FEATURES, CARTOON STRIPS AND PRODUCT REVIEWS AIMED
AT 8-12 YEARS OLDS.
THE
GUARDIAN
TYPE- DAILY NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BERLINER OR MIDI (NORMALLY MEASURING ABOUT 12.4x18.5
inc OR 470MM)
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH.
OWNER- GUARDIAN MEDIA
GROUP.
PUBLISHER- GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA GROUP
EDITOR- ALAN RUSBRIDGER (FROM 1995)
FOUNDED- 1821 BY JOHAN EDWARD TAYLOR AS
THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.
HEADQUARTERS- KINGS PLACE, 90 YORK WAY, LONDON N1 9GU.
CIRCULATION- 185,313 (JUNE 2014)
SISTER
NEWSPAPERS- THE OBSERVER, THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
UNTIL 1959 THE GUARDIAN KNOWN AS THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.
·
IT HAS GROWN FROM A 19TH. CENTURY LOCAL PAPER TO A NATIONAL
PAPER.
·
IN 2007 THE PAPER LAUNCHED A WEBSITE GUARDIAN AMERICA, AN ATTEMPT TO
CAPITALISE ON ITS LARGE READERSHIP IN UNITED STATES.
·
THE GUARDIAN STARTED THE FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY “GUARDIAN FILMS” IN
2003. HEADED BY JOURNALIST MAGGIE O’KANE.
·
ON EACH WEEKDAY THE GUARDIAN COMES WITH G2 SUPPLEMENT CONTANING FEATURE ARTICLES, COLOUMNS,
TELEVISION AND RADIO LISTING AND QUICK CROSSWORD.
·
THE GUARDIAN HAD A CERTIFIED AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION OF 204,222 COPIES
IN DECEMBER 2012. BUT A DROP OF 11.25% ON JANUARY 2012.
·
IN MARCH 2013 IT’S AVERAGE DAILY
CIRCULATION HAD FALLEN TI 193,586.
THE SUN (UNITED KINGDOM)
TYPE- DAILY NEWSPAPER.
FORMAT- TABLOID
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH.
OWNER- NEWS UK (OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF RUPERT MURDOCH’S NEWS CORP.)
PUBLISHED- NEWS GROUP NEWSPAPERS, (DIVISION OF NEWS
UK, SUBSIDIARY OF RUPERT MURDOC’S NEWS GROUP. )
EDITOR- DAVID DISMORE
FOUNDED- 1964
HEADQUARTERS- 3 THOMAS MORE SQUARE, LONDON
CIRCULATION- 2,069,809 (MARCH 2014)
READERSHIP- APPROXIMATELY 7.3 MILLION.
SISTER PAPER- SUNDAY NEWSPAPER FROM 26 FEBRUARY 2012.
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
THE
SUN WAS FIRST PUBLISHED AS A BRODSHEET ON 15 SEPTEMBER 1964.
·
THE
AVERAGE AGE OF SUN READER IS 45 AND APPROXIMATELY
45% OF READERS ARE WOMEN.
·
THE
SUN HAS THE NINTH LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPERS IN THE WORLD AND
LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY DAILY NEWS PAPER IN UK.
·
THE
SCOTTISH SUN LAUNCHED
IN 1987. BASED IN GLASGOW. IT OFTEN REFERRED TO AS A DOWNMARKET ENGLISH BASED
TABLOID.
·
THE
IRISH SUN THE IRISH
EDITION BASED IN DBLIN WITH A REGINOL EDITION FOR NORTHEN IRELAND. IT SHARES
SOME CONTENT- NAMELY GLAMOUR AND SHOWBIZ.
FINANCIAL TIMES
TYPE- INTERNATIONAL DAILY
NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BRODSHEET
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH, GERMAN AND CHINESE ONLINE EDITION.
NATURE-BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC
OWNER- PEARSON PLC. (BROUGHT THE PAPER IN 1957)
EDITOR- LIONEL BARBER (FROM 1 JANUARY 2006)
FOUNDED- 9 JANUARY 1888 (JAMES SHERIDAN
AND HORATIO BOTTOMLEY)
HEADQUARTERS- ONE SOUTHWARK BRIDGE, LONDON, UK
CIRCULATION- 230,470 (MARCH 2014)
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
THE FT WAS LAUNCHED AS THE LONDON FINANCIAL GUIDE ON 9 JANUARY 1988, RENAMING IT SELF THE
FINANCIAL TIMES ON 13 FEBRUARY
THE SAME YEAR.
·
IT WAS THE FOUR PAGE
JOURNAL. THE READERSHIP WAS THE FINANCIAL COMMUNITY OF CITY OF LONDON.
·
IT’S ONLY RIVAL BEING
THE SLIGHTLY OLDER AND MORE DARING FINANCIAL
NEWS.
·
ON JANUARY 2, 1893 THE FT TURNED LIGHT SALMON PINK TO
DISTINGUISH IT FROM THE SIMILARLY NAMED FINANCIAL
NEWS.
·
ON 1 JANUARY 1979 THE FIRST
FT (CONTINENTAL EUROPE’S EDITION)
WAS OUT SIDE THE UK IN FRANKFURT.
·
THE FT HAS BECOME A GLOBAL NEWSPAPER,
PRINTED IN 22 LOCATIONS WITH FIVE INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS TO SERVE THE UK, CONTINENTAL EUROPE, US, ASIA AND THEMIDDLE EAST.
·
IT ESTABLISHED
CORRESPONDENTS IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD.
·
IN 2000, FT STARTED PUBLISHING A GERMAN LANGUAGE
EDITION, (FINANCIAL TIMES DEUTSCHLAND )
WITH NEWS AND EDITORIAL TEAM BASED IN HAMBURG.
·
FT WEEKIND PUBLISHES A SATURDAY
EDITION OF THE NEWSPAPER CALLED THE FINANCIAL TIMES WEEKIND IT CNSISTS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND
POLITICAL NEWS, COMPANIES & MARKETS, LIFE & ARTS.
·
THE LEX COLUMN IS A DAILY FEATURE ON HIS BACK PAGE OF THE
FIRST SECTION. IT FEATURES ANALYSES AND OPINIONS COVERING GLOBAL ECONOMICS AND
FINANCE. THE COLUMAN FIRST APPEARED ON MONDAY 1 OCTOBER 1945.
·
IN
1945 THE FINANCIAL NEWS MERGED WITH FT . LEX COLUMN WAS ALSO INTRODUCED FROM FINANCIAL
NEWS..
AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
THE
NEW YORK TIMES
TYPE- DAILY NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BROADSHEET.
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH.
OWNER- THE NEW YORK TIMES
FOUNDER- HENRY JARVIS RAYMOND, GEORGE JONES
EDITOR- DEAN BAQUET
FOUNDED- 18
SEPTEMBER ,1851 (HENRY JARVIS RAYMOND, JEORGE JONES)
PUBLISHER- ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER, JR.
HEADQUARTERS- THE NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING 620 EIGHTH AVENUE, NEW
YORK.
CIRCULATION- 1,865,315 DAILY, (SUNDAY- 2,322,429 (MARCH 2013)
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
THE
PAPER’S PRINT VERSION REMAINS THE LARGEST LOCAL METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPERS IN US
AND THIRD LARGEST NEWS OVERALL, BEHIND THE WSJ
AND USA TO DAY.
·
THE
NYT COMPANY PUBLISHER OF 18 OTHER NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING THEINTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE.
·
THE
NYT WAS FOUNDED AS THE NEW-YORK DAILY
TIMES SEPTEMBER 18, 1851 BY JOURNALIST AND POLITICIAN HENRY JARVIS RAYMOND. THE NEWSPAPER SHORTENDD ITS NAME TO THE NEW YORK TIMES IN 1857.
·
NYT
HAS WON 112 PULIZER PRIZES MORE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER.
·
THE
NYT IS ORGANIZED IN THREE SECTIONS,
INCLUDING MAGAZINE.
A-
NEWS
INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL, WASHINGTON, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, SCINCE,
HEALTH, SPORTS, THE METRO SECTION, EDUCATION WEATHER AND OBITUARIES.
B-
OPINION-
INCLUDES EDITORIALS, OP-EDS AND LETTERS TO EDITOR.
C-
FEATURES-
INCLUDES ARTS, MOVIES, THEATER, TRAVL, NYC GUIDE, DINING & WINE, HOME &
GARDEN, FASHION & STYLE, CROSSWORD, NYT BOOK REVIEW, NYT MAGAZIN AND SUNDAY
REVIEW.
·
IN
2013 THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY’S THE BOSTON
GLOBE SOLD TO JOHAN HENRY
THE
WASHINGTON POST
TYPE- DAILY NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BROADSHEET.
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH.
OWNER- NASH HOLDINGS (BEZOS’S PRIVARE INVESTMENT COMPANY)
PUBLISHER- KATHARINE WEYMOUTH MARTIN BARON.
EDITOR- MARTIN BARON (JANUARY 2, 2013)
FOUNDED- 1877 (BY STILSON HUTCHINS)
HEADQUARTERS- 1150 15TH. STREET,N.W. WASHIGTON, DC 20071 US.
CIRCULATION- 474, 767 DAILY, (SUNDAY- 838,014 (MARCH 2013)
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
DAILY
EDITIONS ARE PRINTED FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, MARYLAND AND VERGINIA.
·
THE
WATERGATE SCANDAL REPORTING IN THE NEWSPAPER GREATLY CONTRIBTED TO RESIGNATION
OF PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON.
·
THE
NEWSPAPER’S WEEKDAY AND SATURDAY PRINTING INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SECTION.
·
THE
NEWSPAPER IS ONE OF A FEW U.S. NEWSPAPERS WITH FOREIGN BUREAUS LOCATED IN
BAGHDAD, BOGOTA, CAIRO, HONG KONG, ISLAMABAD, JERUSALEM, KABUL, LONDON, MEXICO
CITY, MOSCOW, NAIROBI, NEW DELHI, PARIS, SHANGHAI, TEHRAN AND TOKYO.
A.
MAIN
SECTION, CONTAINING THE FRONT PAGE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS, BUSINESS,
POLITCS AND EDITORIALS AND OPINIONS.
B.
METRO
SECTION, CONTAINING LOCAL NEWS.
C.
STYLE
SECTION, WITH FEATURE WRITING ON POP CULTURE, POLITICS, FINE AND PERFORMING
ARTS, FILM, FASHION AND GOSSIP ALONG WITH ADVICE COLUMNS AND COMICS.
D.
SPORT
SECTION.
·
ON
AUGUST 5, 2013 THE NEWSPAPER ANNOUNCED ITS SALE TO AMAZON FOUNDER JEFF BEZOS. AFTER 60 DAYS BEZOS IS BUYING THE WASHINGTON POST AS WELL THE WASHINGTONPOST.COM WEBSITE
AND SEVERAL SMALLER NEWSPAPERS OWNED BY THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY.
THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL
TYPE- INTERNATIONAL DAILY
NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BRODSHEET
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH,
NATURE- SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC.
OWNER- NEWS CORP (VIA DOW JONES & COMPANY, A DIVISION OF
NEWS CORP. )
PUBLISHER- DOW JONES & COMPANY
EDITOR IN CHIEF-
GERARD BAKER
FOUNDED- 8 JULY, 1889 ( BY CHARLES
DOW, EDWARD JONES AND CHARLES BERGSTESSER)
HEADQUARTERS- 1211AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS NEW YORK, NY 10036.
CIRCULATION- 2,378,827 (MARCH 2013)
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
DOW JONES &
COMPANY’S PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL, FIRST PRODUCT IS BRIEF NEWS BULLETINS HAND
DELIVERED THROUGHT THE DAY TO TRADERS AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
·
THEY ARE LATER
AGGREGATED IN A PRINTED DAILY
SUMMARY CALLED THE CUSTOMERS AFTERNOON
LETTER.
·
IN 1970 DOW JONES BUYS
THE OTTAWAY NEWSPAPER CHAIN, WHICH AT THE TIME COMPRISED NINE DAILIES AND THREE
SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS. LATER THE NAME CHANGED TO DOW JONES LOCAL MEDIA GROUP.
·
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
ONLINE WAS LAUNCHED IN 1996.
·
ON AUGUST 1,
2007 , RUPERT MURDOCH’S NEWS CORPORATION AND DOW JONES ENTERED INTO A
DEFINITIVE MERGER AGREEMENT.
·
GREATER NEW YORK, A
STAND ALONE FULL COLOR SECTION DEDICATED
TO THE NEW YORK METRO AREA, LAUNCHED APRIL 2010.
·
THE WALL STREET
JOURNA’S San Francisco BAY AREA EDITION, WHICH FOUCES ON LOCAL NEWS AREA AND
EVENTS. LAUNCHED NOVEMBER 2009.
·
WSJ WEEKEND FORMELY
CALLED SATURDAY’S WEEKEND EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2005.
·
THE WALL STREET
JOURNALS HAVE A GLOBAL NEWS STAFF OF MORE THAN 2,000 JOURNALISTS IN 85 NEWS BUREAUS
ACROSS 51 COUNTRIES. IT HAS 26 PRINTING PLANTS.
YOMIURI SHIMBUN (JAPANESE)
TYPE- DAILY
NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BRODSHEET
LANGUAGE- JAPANESE.
.OWNER-YOMIURI
GROUP
FOUNDED- 1874
HEADQUARTERS- OTEMACHI, CHIYODA, TOKYO,
JAPAN
CIRCULATION- 10,021,000 (2010)
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
THE
YOMIURI WAS LAUNCHED IN 1874 BY THE NISSHUSHA NEWSPAPER COMPANY AS A SMALL
DAILY NEWSPAPER.
·
IN 1942 , UNDER THE
WARTIME CONDITIONS, IT MERGED WITH THE HOCHI SHIMBUN AND BECOME KNOWN AS THE YOMIURI –HOCHI.
·
IN FEBRUARY 2009 TIE-UP
WITH THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FOR
EDIT, PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION.
·
PUBLISHED IN TOKYO, OSAKA, FUKUOKA AND OTHER MAJOR
JAPANESE CITY.
·
IT IS A PART OF
THE YOMIURI GROUP.
·
LARGEST
NEWSPAPER CIRULATION IN THE WORLD HAVING A COMBINES MORNING AND EVENING
CIRCULATION 1, 43, 23,781 THROUGH JANUARY 2002. AS OF MID YEAR 2011, IT STILL
HAS A COMBINED MORNING AND EVENING CIRCULATION OF ALMOST 13.5 MILLION FOR ITS
NATIONAL EDITION.
·
THE PAPER IS
PRINTED TWICE A DAY AND IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOCAL EDITIONS.
·
YOMIURI ALSO PUBLISHES THE JAPAN NEWS (FORMERLY CALLED THE DAILY YOMIURI) JAPAN’S LARGEST ENGLISH NEWS PAPER.
PEOPLE’S DAILY (CHINESE)
TYPE- DAILY
NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BRODSHEET
LANGUAGE- CHINESE
.OWNER-COMMUNIST
PARTY OF CHINA
CHIEF OFFICER-ZHANG YANNONG
PUBLISHER- CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA.
FOUNDED- 15 JUNE 1948
HEADQUARTERS- NO.2 JINTAI XILU, CHAOYANG
DISTRICT, BEIJING.
CIRCULATION- 3 TO 4 MILLION WORLDWIDE.
OFFICAL WEBSITE-
WWW.PEOPLE.COM.CN (CHINESE)
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
WORLDWIDE PUBLISHED WITH A CIRCULATION OF 3TO
4 MILLION.
·
IT HAS EDITIOS IN ENGLISH, JAPANESE,
FRENCH, SPANISH, RUSSIAN, ARABIC AND KOREAN.
·
NEWSPAPER PROVIDES INFORMATION ON THE POLICIES
AND VIEWPOINTS OF THE PARTY.
THE
TIMES OF INDIA
TYPE- DAILY NEWSPAPER.
FORMET-BROADSHEET.
LANGUAGE- ENGLISH.
OWNER- THE TIMES GROUP
EDITOR IN CHIEF-
JAIDEEP BOSE
FOUNDED- 3 NOVEMBER 1838
PUBLISHER- BENNETT COLEMAN & CO.LTD.
HEADQUARTERS- THE TIMES OF INDIA BUILDING, Dr.D.N. ROAD, MUMBAI-400001,
INDIA.
CIRCULATION- 31,40,000.
SISTER NEWSPAPERS- THE ECONOMIC TIMES, NAVBHARAT TIMES, MAHARASHTRA TIMES (MARATHI), EI
SAMAY (BENGALI-LANGUAGE)
OFFICAL WEBSITE-
WWW.TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES.COM
SPECIAL FEATURE
·
ACCORDING TO AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS IT HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATIONS AMONG ALL
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPERS IN THE WORLD.
·
ACCORDING TO THE WORLD ASSOCIATION OF
NEWSPAPERS AND NEWS PUBLISHERS, IT HAS 3RD. LARGEST SELLING
NEWSPAPER IN ANY LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD.
·
THE TIMES OF INDIA WAS FOUNDED ON 3 NOVEMBER
1838 AS THE BOMBAY TIMES AND JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. PUBLISHED EVERY
SATURDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
·
THE BOMBAY TIMES AND JOURNAL OF COMMERCE WAS LAUNCHED AS A SEMI
WEEKLY EDITION BY RAOBAHADUR NARAYAN DINANATH VELAR A MAHARASHTRIAN
REFRMIST.
·
THE DAILY EDITIONS OF THE PAPER WERE STARTED
FROM 1850.
·
IN 1861 THE BOMBAY TIMES WAS RENAMED AS
THE TIMES OF INDIA.
·
AFTER INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE THE OWNERSHIP OF
THE APER PASSED ON THE FAMOUS INDUSTRIAL FAMILY OF DALMIYAS AND LATER IT
WAS TAKEN OVER BY SAHU SHANTI PRASAD JAIN.
·
THE TIMES GROUP IS THE COMPANY OF BENNETT COLEMAN & CO.LTD.
·
THE TIMES GROUP ALSO PUBLISHES MUMBAI
MIRROR, PUNE MIRROR, BANGALORE MIRROR, AHAMEDABAD MIRROR.
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