The Broadsheet Newspapers
One of the most successful newspapers is The Times found by John Walter in 1785 which was the Daily Universal, and now owned by Rupert Murdoch or News International which also launched another longer version () in 1864 but only came under common ownership in 1966 although The Times and The Sunday Times are both owned by Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp, they did not share the same staff but have the same owner since 1967.
The Times’ average for November 2005 show that The Times sold 692,581 copies per day which shows how much succesful it can be later.
Another famous one was The Guardian which was quite similar to The Times newspapers and it was found in 1821 by a businessman but then it was called Manchester Guardian. In 1959 - Manchester Guardian became The Guardian and carried on to be known as the guardian.
It’s first edition was published on 5 May 1821, at which time The Guardian was a weekly, published on Saturdays but in 1836 it was added on Wednesday editions and then in 1855 it became a daily edited paper. In 1952 the paper took the step of printing news on the front page replacing the adverts and it was accepted by everyone as the adverts were moved further back. In 1992 it relaunched its features section as G2, a tabloid-format supplement. This innovation was widely copied by the other "quality" broadsheets, and quickely led to the rise of "compact" papers. It bought a broadsheet newspaper and launched it as a Sunday newspaper called The Observer which was already launched in 1791 but after it was taken over it was lauched again in 1993.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper was introduced in 1855. It also introduced us The Sunday Telegraph paper later in 1961 .
The Financial Times was found in 1888 by , it was more about the economy and gave us the financial news or businesses.
The Independent is a found by in 1886. The Independent was originally published in but from September 2003 was produced in broadsheet and , with the same content in each.
1859 - March 29 : The Irish Times launched.
The first coloured newspaper
1855 - Aug 4 : Colored News, first coloured newspaper, launched. Discontinued 29 September same year but soon other papers started to publish colour papers in similar style to this one.
The Tabloid Newspapers
The Tabloid newspapers started to be published in late eighteenth century but were published with improvement in early nineteenth century and then were noticed by more and more people. So more tabloid newspapers were published as the audience for it got bigger.
1843 - Oct 1 : News of the World founded by John Browne Bell, its published as a tabloid.
On 2 November 1902 was launched the Daily Mirror by who started a new era as he brought out the first daily newspaper which included photographs exclusively. The Mirror was a broadsheet newspaper until the 1950s but is now one of the biggest tabloid newspapers.
The People, previously known as the Sunday People, a tabloid newspaper sold only on Sundays. It was lauched in and owned by the company.
1900- The Daily Express was founded in 1900 by and introduced as a broadsheet newspaper but in 1977 it switched to tabloid formatting. On 29 Dec 1918 it launched the Sunday Express.
The Evening Standard is a tabloid newspaper found in May 1827 by Charles Baldwin it is published and also sold only in London.
The News Chronicle was launched in 1896 by , the name changed into the . The Daily Mail was introduced as a , but switched to a compact format on 3 May 1971. It also published a Sunday newspaper which was launched in 1982.
1964 - The Sun was launched which replaced the Daily Herald and still a tabloid newspaper. Its now the best selling newspaper.