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 Sun (Sydney) The Sun (Sydney) The Sun was an afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published under this name in 1910. It was acquired from Associated Newspapers by Fairfax Holdings in Sydney, Australia in 1953, as the afternoon companion to "The Sydney Morning Herald". The former Sunday edition, the "Sunday Sun" was discontinued and merged with the "Sunday Herald" into the tabloid "Sun-Herald" at the same time. "The Sunday Sun", which later became "The Sun: Sunday edition", was first published on 5 April 1903, and continued under its former name until 11 December 1910. According to its claim on page 1 of this issue,