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 history in Melbourne, to form the "Herald-Sun". The Sun News-Pictorial The Sun News-Pictorial, also known as "The Sun", was a morning daily tabloid newspaper published in Melbourne, from 1922 until its merger in 1990 with "The Herald" to form the "Herald-Sun". "The Sun News-Pictorial" was part of The Herald and Weekly Times stable of Melbourne newspapers. For more than fifty years it was the newspaper with the largest circulation in Australia. Along with its extensive coverage of Australian Rules football (for example, it was responsible for the competition that produced the original VFL/AFL team songs) "The Sun News-Pictorial" distinguished itself