List of newspapers in the United Kingdom

This article is a list of newspapers in the United Kingdom.

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 sized ways. 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.

For circulation numbers see List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation.

Contents

Broadsheet and former broadsheet newspapers

Broadsheet format

Daily
Sunday

Berliner format

Daily
Sunday

Compact format

Daily
Sunday

"Middle-market" tabloid newspapers

Daily

Sunday

Tabloid newspapers

Daily

Sunday

Newspapers in Scotland

Daily newspapers

Title Market Type Print Time Location Format Scottish Circulation
The Herald National – Quality Morning Scottish Broadsheet 47,020
The Scotsman National – Quality Morning Scottish Compact 38,423
Daily Record National – Tabloid Morning Scottish Tabloid 275,175
The Courier Regional Morning Scottish Broadsheet 61,981
The Press and Journal Regional Morning Scottish Broadsheet 71,044
Greenock Telegraph Local Morning Scottish Tabloid 14,342
Paisley Daily Express Local Morning Scottish Tabloid 7,538
Edinburgh Evening News Local Evening Scottish Tabloid 39,947
Evening Express Local Evening Scottish Tabloid 47,849
Evening Telegraph Local Evening Scottish Tabloid 23,631
Evening Times Local Evening Scottish Tabloid 52,400
The Daily Telegraph (Scottish edition) National – Quality Morning Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Broadsheet 22,172
The Times (Scottish edition) National – Quality Morning Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Compact 19,994
Scottish Daily Express National – Mid Market Morning Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 65,689
Scottish Daily Mail National – Mid Market Morning Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 109,643
Daily Star of Scotland National – Tabloid Morning Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 65,084
Scottish Daily Mirror National – Tabloid Morning Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 24,333
The Scottish Sun National – Tabloid Morning Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 314,595
The Financial Times National – Quality Morning UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Broadsheet 3,528
The Guardian National – Quality Morning UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Berliner 14,069
i National – Quality Morning UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Compact 12,411
The Independent National – Quality Morning UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Compact 7,970
Metro, Scottish Edition National – Free Morning Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 125,002

Sunday newspapers

Title Market Type Location Format Scottish Circulation
Scotland on Sunday National – Quality Scottish Broadsheet 50,897
Sunday Herald National – Quality Scottish Compact 42,111
Sunday Mail National – Tabloid Scottish Tabloid 354,396
The Sunday Post National – Tabloid Scottish Tabloid 224,471
The Sunday Times Scotland National – Quality Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Broadsheet 59,502
The Sunday Telegraph Scotland National – Quality Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Broadsheet 18,339
Mail on Sunday Scotland National – Mid Market Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 105,223
Scottish Sunday Express National – Mid Market Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 35,337
Scottish Sunday Mirror National – Tabloid Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 21,809
The Observer National – Quality UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Berliner 17,880
The Independent on Sunday National – Quality UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Compact 6,317
Daily Star Sunday National – Tabloid UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Tabloid 26,889
The Sunday Sport National – Tabloid UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Tabloid n/a
For local weekly newspapers in Scotland, see List of newspapers in Scotland.

Newspapers in Wales

Newspapers focused on serious journalism

Regional newspapers

Papurau Bro

Papurau Bro (Area Papers) are Welsh language newspapers produced nominally monthly (typically 10 issues a year with a summer break) which cover the news in a small area—a town, group of parishes, one or a few valleys, etc., with a circulation of perhaps a few thousand each. There are between 50 and 60 Papurau Bro which cover the whole of Wales, plus the Welsh communities of Liverpool and London. Papers are frequently named after local features, connections, crafts, etc., or in dialect (clebran, clecs, clochdar, and clonc all imply gossip). The first "papur bro" (Y Dinesydd) appeared in 1973 in Cardiff, and the following decade saw the establishment of most of the others. Much of the work of producing the papers is done voluntarily (aside from the printing), although financial support is given by Bwrdd yr Iaith (Welsh Language Board). Some of the papers listed may have ceased publication.

Newspapers in Northern Ireland

Local newspapers

Freesheet newspapers in urban centres

Regional newspapers in England

(Incomplete list)

Local newspapers in England and the Crown Dependencies

Most towns and cities in the UK have at least one local newspaper, such as the Evening Post in Bristol and The Echo in Cardiff. However, they are not known nationally for their journalism in the way that (despite much syndication) city-based newspapers in the USA are (e.g. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe). A major exception to this pattern was the well-regarded Manchester Guardian, which dropped the "Manchester" from its name (1959) and relocated its main operations to London (1964). The Guardian Media Group produced a Mancunian paper, the Manchester Evening News until 2010 when the MEN and its other local newspapers in the Greater Manchester area were sold to Trinity Mirror.

Hartlepool

Non-English-language newspapers

Several newspapers in languages other than English are published in Britain, for immigrant and expatriate readers. Newspapers, both national and local, in Arabic, Bangla, Italian, Latvian, Portuguese, Urdu, and other languages are published.[5]

Specialist newspapers

For specific ethnic groups

For specific religions

Politics

Sport

Miscellaneous special interest

Restricted circulation newspapers

Corporate newspapers

University newspapers

National

Regional

See also:[7][8]'

Defunct newspapers

References

  1. ^ [1], 'Independent aims i at younger readers' – The Financial Times.
  2. ^ North Wales Weekly News, Conwy county. Mediauk.com. Retrieved on 31 August 2011.
  3. ^ West Lancashire & Southport news, football, jobs & more. Southport Visiter (11 August 2009). Retrieved on 31 August 2011.
  4. ^ Champ CyberNews : Front Page. Champnews.com. Retrieved on 31 August 2011.
  5. ^ /englanda-k.htm List of English newspapers. Onlinenewspapers.com. Retrieved on 31 August 2011.
  6. ^ The World Zoroastrian Organisation, with information on Hamazor. W-z-o.org. Retrieved on 31 August 2011.
  7. ^ http://www.studentzone.org.uk/news/studnews.html
  8. ^ Open Directory – News: Colleges and Universities: Newspapers: United Kingdom: England. Dmoz.org (30 June 2010). Retrieved on 31 August 2011.

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