Sunday People

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Sunday People
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Front page on 4 December 2016
TypeSunday newspaper
Format Red top
Owner(s) Reach plc
EditorPeter Willis [1]
Founded16 October 1881
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersLondon
Circulation 49,989(as of October 2024) [2]
ISSN 0307-7292
Website mirror.co.uk/sunday-people

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as The People on 16 October 1881. [3]

Contents

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 , which eventually became The Sun. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid on September 22, 1974.

The Sunday People 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

In 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

Editors

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  2. ↑ "Sunday People". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  3. ↑ "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century". Archived from the original on 24 February 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
  4. ↑ Luft, Oliver; Brook, Stephen (30 January 2009). "The People to make six staff redundant". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  5. ↑ Sweney, Mark (14 February 2014). "The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ "Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year". Press Gazette. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "Audit Bureau of Circulation: Sunday People". ABC. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  8. ↑ Poole, Dan (2023). Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency: The Atrocity and Cover-Up. Pen and Sword Military. pp. xxvi–xxvii. ISBN   978-1399057417.
  9. ↑ Jessica Boulton; Katie Hind; Ben Duffy (28 March 2010). "CELEBRITY X FACTOR". People. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  10. ↑ Greenslade, Roy (6 March 2016). "Alison Phillips: 'The New Day is about looking behind the news'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  11. ↑ Waterson, Jim (28 April 2019). "Gary Jones on taking over Daily Express: 'It was anti-immigrant. I couldn't sleep'". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  12. ↑ Wynne Jones, Ros (28 June 2021). "'Heart of the Daily Mirror' and Pride of Britain founder Peter Willis dies aged 54". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
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  14. ↑ Waterson, Jim; O'Caroll, Lisa (29 June 2021). "Peter Willis, Pride of Britain founder and ex-Mirror editor, dies at 54". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
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