The Sunday People
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| Type | Sunday newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Trinity Mirror |
| Editor | Alison Phillips |
| Founded | 16 October 1881 |
| Political alignment | Centre-left Populist |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | London |
| Circulation | 277,021 (March 2016)[1] |
| Website | people.co.uk |
The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881.[2]
It was bought by the Mirror group in 1961 along with the Daily Herald. It is still published by the Trinity Mirror Group,[3] and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the News of the World, it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544.[4] By January 2014 the circulation had shrunk to 374,820.[5] Despite its tagline claim to be a "truly independent" newspaper, The People endorsed the Labour Party at the 2015 general election on the recommendation of polling data from its readers.[6]
Notable columnists
- Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell On the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the Daily Star Sunday.
- Jimmy Greaves, the former England footballer[7]
- Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler.
Editors
- 1881: Sebastian Evans
- 1890s: Harry Benjamin Vogel
- 1900: Joseph Hatton
- 1907:
- 1913: John Sansome
- 1922: Robert Donald
- 1924: Hannen Swaffer
- 1925: Harry Ainsworth
- 1957: Stuart Campbell
- 1966: Bob Edwards
- 1972: Geoffrey Pinnington
- 1982: Nicholas Lloyd
- 1984: Richard Stott
- 1985: Ernie Burrington
- 1988: John Blake
- 1989: Wendy Henry
- 1989: Ernie Burrington (acting)
- 1990: Richard Stott
- 1991: Bill Hagerty
- 1992: Bridget Rowe
- 1996: Brendon Parsons
- 1998: Neil Wallis
- 2003: Mark Thomas
- 2008: Lloyd Embley
- 2012: James Scott
- 2014: Alison Phillips
References
- ^ http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bulks-help-times-and-telegraph-grow-their-print-circulations-year-year-march
- ^ "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century". Archived from the original on 24 February 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
- ^ Luft, Oliver; Brook, Stephen (30 January 2009). "The People to make six staff redundant". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ Sweney, Mark (14 February 2014). "The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise". The Guardian. London.
- ^ http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/14/the-sun-post-christmas-sales-bounce
- ^ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sunday-people-endorses-ed-miliband-5626595
- ^ Jessica Boulton; Katie Hind; Ben Duffy (28 March 2010). "CELEBRITY X FACTOR". People. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
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