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 Sun News-Pictorial known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left leaning approach from 1949, but which was closed in 1957. The other competitor over the life of the newspaper was the more liberal-minded "The Age", a daily newspaper that had been published in Melbourne since 1854. David Syme became sole proprietor of the paper in 1891, and built it up into Victoria's leading newspaper. In circulation, it soon overtook its rivals "The Herald" and "The Argus", and by 1890 it was selling 100,000 copies a day, making it one of the world's most successful newspapers. However,