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 Cornell Daily Sun few full-time production and business positions, "The Sun" is staffed by Cornell students and is fully independent of the university. It operates out of its own building in downtown Ithaca. "The Sun" is currently the number one college newspaper in the United States, according to The Princeton Review. The "Cornell Sun" was founded in 1880 by William Ballard Hoyt to challenge Cornell's original and leading publication, the weekly "Cornell Era" (founded 1868). "The Sun" boasted in its opening paragraph: "We have no indulgence to ask, no favors to beg." The paper incorporated and changed to daily frequency, earning its longstanding