News UK 16 September 2014 by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper "The Times" and the broadsheet "The Sunday Times". Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased "The Times" from the Astor family and merged it with "The Sunday Times", which it had owned since 1959. The company was purchased by Murdoch's News International in February 1981. The acquisition followed an intense 21 days of negotiations with the print unions conducted by John Collier and Bill O'Neill. "The Times Literary Supplement", "Times Educational Supplement" and "Times Higher Education Supplement" were
Il Giorno (newspaper) In 1997, Eni sold "Il Giorno" to the Italian publishing company Poligrafici Editoriale, which also owns two other Italian newspapers ("il Resto del Carlino" and "La Nazione") under the "Quotidiano Nazionale" network. In 2000, "Il Giorno" switched from a broadsheet to a tabloid format. The paper was published in tabloid format until 2003 when it adopted again broadsheet format. In 2009, the paper began to publish a new sports supplement. The 1988 circulation of "Il Giorno" was 290,000 copies. In 1992 it had a circulation of 170,000 copies. Its circulation was 75,601 copies in 2004. In 2008 the newspaper had