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 longest running column was "A Place in the Sun", originally written by Keith Dunstan—founder of the Anti-Football League—and later Graeme "Jacko" Johnstone. The award-winning cartoonist Geoff "Jeff" Hook became the full-time cartoonist for "The Sun News-Pictorial" in 1964. Keith Murdoch became editor-in-chief of "The Herald" in January 1921. When the proprietor of the "Sydney Sun" tried to break into the Melbourne market in 1922 with the launch of "The Evening Sun" and "The Sun News-Pictorial", Murdoch fought a long campaign which eventually resulted in The Herald and Weekly Times, with the circulation of "The Herald" up by 50%, taking over