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 News-Pictorial the two tabloids in 1925. Murdoch closed the afternoon rival "The Evening Sun". In 1928, Murdoch became managing director of the HWT, by which time "The Sun News-Pictorial" was on its way to becoming Australia's highest-selling newspaper. An early editor, who has been given much of the credit for the paper's success, was (later Sir) Lloyd Dumas. "The Sun News-Pictorial"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main competitors were the broadsheets, "The Argus" and "The Age". "The Argus" was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne that had been published since 1846 and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely