The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by News Corp. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967.
• The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (founded in 1838), The Straits Times (Singapore) (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), Le Temps (France) (1861 -1942), the Cape Times (South Africa) (1872), the Los Angeles Times (1881), the Trenton Times (1882), The Seattle Times (1891), The Manila Times (1898), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), El Tiempo (Colombia) (1911), The Canberra Times (1926), Times of Malta (1935), and The Washington Times (1982).
• The Times features news for the first half of the paper, the Opinion/Comment section begins after the first news section with world news normally following this. The business pages begin on the centre spread, and are followed by The Register, containing obituaries, Court & Social section, and related material. The sport section is at the end of the main paper. • In April 2016 the cover price of The Times became £ 1. 40 on weekdays and £ 1. 50 on Saturdays.
• The Saturday edition of The Times contains a variety of supplements. • These supplements were relaunched in January 2009 as: Sport, Weekend (including travel and lifestyle features), Saturday Review (arts, books, TV listings and ideas), The Times Magazine (columns on various topics), and Playlist (an entertainment listings guide).
• The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times. co. uk and sunday-times. co. uk, and later at timesonline. co. uk. There are now two websites: thetimes. co. uk is aimed at daily readers, and thesundaytimes. co. uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content. There also i. Pad and Android editions of both newspapers. Since July 2010, News UK has required readers who do not subscribe to the print edition to pay £ 2 per week to read The Times and The Sunday Times online.
• The Times had the following eight owners since its foundation in 1785: • • 1785 to 1803 – John Walter • • 1803 to 1847 – John Walter, 2 nd • • 1847 to 1894 – John Walter, 3 rd • • 1894 to 1908 – Arthur Fraser Walter • • 1908 to 1922 – Lord Northcliffe • • 1922 to 1966 – Astor family • • 1966 to 1981 – Roy Thomson • • 1981 to present – News UK (formerly News International, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp, run by Rupert Murdoch)
• Typeface • The Times commissioned the serif typeface Times New Roman, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype, in 1931. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated. The font was supervised by Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times.
