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
True Sun (London newspaper) advocating tax resistance against the British government's window tax. In July 1835 D. Whittle Harvey purchased "The True Sun". In 1837 Murdo Young purchased "The True Sun" from Whittle Harvey and a co-proprietor and merged it into his newspaper "The Sun" (which was published from 1792 to 1871). True Sun (London newspaper) The True Sun was a London, pro-Whig, evening newspaper that was first published on 5 March 1832 and ceased publication in December 1837. It was published daily except Sundays. In 1832–1834 Charles Dickens was a reporter for "The True Sun". In December 1833 Henry Hunt brought a libel