The Sun (United Kingdom) The Sun (United Kingdom) The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. As a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the "Daily Herald"; it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Since "The Sun on Sunday" was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation. "The Sun" previously had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the
The Baltimore Sun The Baltimore Sun The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries. Founded in 1837, the newspaper is owned by Tribune Publishing. "The Sun" was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer/editor/publisher/owner Arunah Shepherdson Abell (often listed as "A.S. Abell") and two associates, William Moseley Swain, and Azariah H. Simmons, recently from Philadelphia, where they had started and published the "Public Ledger" the year before. Abell was born in Rhode Island, where he began journalism with the "Providence Patriot" and