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 Morning Sun (Pittsburg) death in August 1966, and was soon after inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame. In 1966, the afternoon "Headlight" and morning "Sun" were merged into the "Headlight-Sun". The "Morning Sun" name was adopted in 1973. In 1994, Morris Communications announced plans to acquire Stauffer Communications, which by that time was operating 20 daily newspapers (including the Morning Sun) and eight weeklies, in addition to a number of television and radio stations. At the time the circulation was 10,312. In 2007, GateHouse Media acquired the paper from Morris Publishing Group as part of a larger sale of papers. As