World's Top Three Newspapers

The Sun (U.K.)

Are you a football fan? Do you support Human Rights? Are you ‘anti war’? Are you ‘weird’? Have you been or are you unemployed? Are you or is anyone you know suffered or suffering from mental illness? Are you black? Asian, Indian or French or German or Irish? Are you a Christian?, Muslim?, Hindu? or Sikh? If you are interested in these topics then perhaps, you ought to buy it. First published as a broadsheet on September 15, 1964, The Sun relies heavily on stories and occasionally scandals involving celebrities and the entertainment industry, contained in its general news pages as well as in sections such as Bizarre and TV Biz. The Guardian (U.K.) Formerly known as The Manchester Guardian, this newspaper was founded in 1821 by a group of non-conformist businessmen headed by John Edward Taylor. The much-quoted article “comment is free but facts are sacred” is still used to explain the values of the present-day newspaper. This ‘extraordinary act of philanthropy’ resulted in a unique form of media ownership in the UK, which has now lasted more than 70 years. The Guardian had a certified average daily circulation of 283,063 copies in March 2010, behind The Daily Telegraph and The Times, but ahead of The Independent. The website, guardian.co.uk, is one of the highest-traffic English-language news websites. According to its editor, The Guardian has the second largest online readership of any English-language newspaper in the world, after the New York Times. The New York Times (U.S.A.) The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The Times has won 104 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization. Its web site was the most popular American online newspaper Web site as of December 2008, receiving more than 18 million unique visitors in that month. Although it remains both the largest local metropolitan newspaper in the United States as well as being third largest overall, behind The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, the weekday circulation of the print version of the paper has fallen precipitously in recent years, along the lines of other newspapers, to fewer than one million copies daily for the first time since the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Gray Lady" and long regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record", the Times is owned by The New York Times Company, which also publishes 18 other regional newspapers including the International Herald Tribune and The Boston Globe. The company's chairman is Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., whose family has controlled the paper since 1896.