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 Sun (Sydney) it had a "circulation larger than that of any other Sunday paper in Australia". Publication of "The Sun" ceased on 14 March 1988. Some of its content, and sponsorship of the Sydney City to Surf footrace, was continued in "The Sun-Herald". Some issues of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. The Sun (Sydney) The Sun was an afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published under this name in 1910. It was acquired from Associated Newspapers by Fairfax Holdings in Sydney, Australia in 1953, as the afternoon companion to "The