Sunday Mirror Sunday Mirror The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the "Daily Mirror". It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and was renamed the "Sunday Mirror" in 1963. In 2016 it had an average weekly circulation of 620,861, dropping markedly to 505,508 the following year. Competing closely with other papers, in July 2011, on the second weekend after the closure of the "News of the World", more than 2,000,000 copies sold, the highest level since January 2000. The paper launched as the "Sunday Pictorial" on 14 March 1915. Lord Rothermere – who owned the paper – introduced
The Sunday Times own. In 1963, the Insight investigative team was established under Clive Irving. On 27 September 1964, the "Business" section was launched, making "The Sunday Times" Britain's first regular three-section newspaper. In September 1966, Thomson bought "The Times", to form Times Newspapers Ltd (TNL). It was the first time both "The Sunday Times" and "The Times" had been brought under the same ownership. Harold Evans, editor from 1967 until 1981, established "The Sunday Times" as a leading campaigning and investigative newspaper. On 19 May 1968, the paper published its first major campaigning report on the drug Thalidomide, which had been reported