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
Pacific Sun (newspaper) over as editor, the San Francisco Press Club awarded its first prize for the best news story in a northern California non-daily paper for the "Sun"s story “The Night Nicasio Fired the Principal”, about a school board’s firing of a principal for admitting to marijuana use. In 1984, "The Sun" won the award for General Excellence from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer worked as a reporter for the "Pacific Sun" for two years in the 1970s, winning a Press Club award for a 1973 story on a state supreme court controversy. Embarcadero Media, publisher of community