List of newspapers in Scotland

List of newspapers in Scotland is a list of newspapers in Scotland.

Contents

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    

Traditionally newspapers could be divided into 'quality', serious-minded newspapers (usually referred to as 'broadsheets' due to their large size) and 'tabloids', or less serious newspapers. But these definitions no longer apply, as several 'quality' papers in Scotland have followed the lead of The Independent, by adopting a tabloid format (which they prefer to refer to as 'compact' to avoid being associated with their more downmarket peers). In Scotland two broadsheet newspapers have made the switch to 'compact' format. The Scotsman did so in August 2004, and the Sunday Herald followed in November 2005.

In addition to newspapers published in Scotland, including Scottish editions of UK newspapers, a number of national newspapers published in other parts of the British Isles are widely available.

Sunday Newspapers

Title Market Type Location Format Scottish Circulation
Scotland on Sunday National – Quality Scottish Broadsheet 46,327    
Sunday Herald National – Quality Scottish Compact 31,241    
Sunday Mail National – Tabloid Scottish Tabloid 387,383    
The Sunday Post National – Tabloid Scottish Tabloid 225,387    
The Sunday Times Scotland National – Quality Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Broadsheet 61,499    
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 111,161    
Scottish Sunday Express National – Mid Market Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 44,223    
Scottish Sunday Mirror National – Tabloid Scottish edition of UK Newspaper Tabloid 45,926    
The Observer National – Quality UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Berliner 17,880    
The People National – Tabloid UK Newspaper widely available in Scotland Tabloid 30,645    
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 61,952    

Local Weekly newspapers

Aberdeen

Aberdeenshire

Angus

Argyll and Bute

Clackmannanshire

Dumfries & Galloway

Dundee

East Ayrshire

East Dunbartonshire

East Lothian

East Renfrewshire

Edinburgh

Falkirk

Fife

Glasgow

Highlands

Inverclyde

Midlothian

Moray

North Ayrshire

North Lanarkshire

Orkney

Perth & Kinross

Renfrewshire

Scottish Borders

Shetland

South Ayrshire

South Lanarkshire

Stirling

West Dunbartonshire

West Lothian

Western Isles

Specialist newspapers

UK-wide specialist newspapers widely available in Scotland

Corporate newspapers

University newspapers

Defunct newspapers

Further reading

See also

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