The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as The People on 16 October 1881.[3]
 Front page on 4 December 2016 | |
| Type | Sunday newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Red top |
| Owner(s) | Reach plc |
| Editor | Peter Willis[1] |
| Founded | 16 October 1881 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | London |
| Circulation | 49,989 (as of October 2024)[2] |
| ISSN | 0307-7292 |
| Website | mirror.co.uk/sunday-people |
At one point owned by Odhams Press, The People was acquired along with Odhams by the Mirror Group in 1961, along with the Daily Herald. It is now published by Reach plc,[4] 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.[5] By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364[6] and by August 2020 to 125,216.[7]
Notable events
editIn March 1951 the Sunday People (then known as The People) published an article claiming that the British military had allowed Iban mercenaries to collect scalps from human corpses in the ongoing Malayan Emergency war. British colonial officials saw this article as a potential propaganda threat and drew plans to release a rebuttal in the Straits Times. The paper's claims would later be proven true following the British Malayan headhunting scandal.[8]
Notable columnists
edit- 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[9]
- Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler
- Fred Harrison, an established economics author of 19 books
- Dean Dunham, consumer columnist and leading authority on consumer law.
Editors
edit- 1881: Sebastian Evans
- 1890: Harry Benjamin Vogel
- 1900: Joseph Hatton
- 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
- 2016: Gary Jones
- 2018: Peter Willis
- 2020: Paul Henderson
- 2021: Gemma Aldridge
References
edit- ^ Mayhew, Freddie (1 March 2018). "All change as Daily Express and Daily Star editors leave following Trinity Mirror buyout". Press Gazette. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "Sunday People". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "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. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ Sweney, Mark (14 February 2014). "The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise". The Guardian.
- ^ "Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year". Press Gazette. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ "Audit Bureau of Circulation: Sunday People". ABC. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ Poole, Dan (2023). Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency: The Atrocity and Cover-Up. Pen and Sword Military. pp. xxvi–xxvii. ISBN 978-1399057417.
- ^ Jessica Boulton; Katie Hind; Ben Duffy (28 March 2010). "CELEBRITY X FACTOR". People. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
