Which newspaper was launched in 1986 as “Britain’s first full-colour low cost tabloid”?
Today (UK newspaper) Today (UK newspaper) Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. "Today", with the American newspaper "USA Today" as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established "Daily Mail" and "Daily Express". It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce photographs in black and white. The colour was initially crude, produced
Tabloid (newspaper format) blue-collar labourers. Compact tabloids, just like broadsheet- and Berliner-format newspapers, span the political spectrum from progressive to conservative and from capitalist to socialist. In Morocco, "Maroc Soir", launched in November 2005, is published in tabloid format. In South Africa, the Bloemfontein-based daily newspaper "Volksblad" became the first serious broadsheet newspaper to switch to tabloid, but only on Saturdays. Despite the format proving to be popular with its readers, the newspaper remains broadsheet on weekdays. This is also true of Pietermaritzburg's daily, "The Witness" in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The "Daily Sun", published by Naspers, has since become South Africa's biggest-selling