The Sunday People
 | |
| Type | Sunday newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Trinity Mirror |
| Editor | Alison Phillips |
| Founded | 16 October 1881 |
| Political alignment |
Centre-left Populist |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | London |
| Circulation | 239,364 (as of December 2016)[1] |
| ISSN | 0307-7292 |
| Website |
www |
The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881.[2]
It was bought by the Mirror group in 1961 along with the Daily Herald. It is still published by the Trinity Mirror Group,[3] and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the News of the World, it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544.[4] By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364.[1] Despite its tagline claim to be a "truly independent" newspaper, The People endorsed the Labour Party at the 2015 general election on the recommendation of polling data from its readers.[5]
Notable columnists
- Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell On the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the Daily Star Sunday.
- Jimmy Greaves, the former England footballer[6]
- Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler.
- Fred Harrison an established economic author of 19 books.
Christmas edition
Instead of a normal edition when Sunday is falling on Christmas Day a special Christmas edition is published on Saturday December 24.
Editors
- 1881: Sebastian Evans
- 1890s: Harry Benjamin Vogel
- 1900: Joseph Hatton
- 1907:
- 1913: John Sansome
- 1922: Robert Donald
- 1924: Hannen Swaffer
- 1925: Harry Ainsworth
- 1957: Stuart Campbell
- 1966: Bob Edwards
- 1972: Geoffrey Pinnington
- 1982: Nicholas Lloyd
- 1984: Richard Stott
- 1985: Ernie Burrington
- 1988: John Blake
- 1989: Wendy Henry
- 1989: Ernie Burrington (acting)
- 1990: Richard Stott
- 1991: Bill Hagerty
- 1992: Bridget Rowe
- 1996: Brendon Parsons
- 1998: Neil Wallis
- 2003: Mark Thomas
- 2008: Lloyd Embley
- 2012: James Scott
- 2014: Alison Phillips
References
- 1 2 "Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year". Press Gazette. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ↑ "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century". Archived from the original on 24 February 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
- ↑ Luft, Oliver; Brook, Stephen (30 January 2009). "The People to make six staff redundant". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ↑ Sweney, Mark (14 February 2014). "The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise". The Guardian. London.
- ↑ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sunday-people-endorses-ed-miliband-5626595
- ↑ Jessica Boulton; Katie Hind; Ben Duffy (28 March 2010). "CELEBRITY X FACTOR". People. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
