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
Vincennes Sun-Commercial it was renamed Jones' Vincennes Sentinel, the Vincennes Patriot, and in 1853 the Courant and Patriot. The newspaper was subsequently changed to back to the Western Sun when George E. Green purchased the business in 1856. Throughout the years the newspaper went through many name changes, till the Western Sun was discontinued because of the creation of the Vincennes Sun newspaper. Eventually the Vincennes Sun was merged with a competing newspaper named the Vincennes Commercial to create what is now called the Vincennes Sun-Commercial. In 1966 Elihu Stout was inducted into Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame Today the news paper