Unemployed, Walter began a new business venture. Walter had lost his job by the end of 1784 after the insurance company for which he worked went bankrupt due to losses from a Jamaican hurricane. The Times was founded by publisher John Walter on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor. įront page of The Times from 4 December 1788 A complete historical file of the digitised paper, up to 2019, is online from Gale Cengage Learning. The Times has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index. An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006. The Times had an average daily circulation of 417,298 in January 2019 in the same period, The Sunday Times had an average weekly circulation of 712,291. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as The London Times, or as The Times of London, although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as The Times of India and The New York Times. In general, the political position of The Times is considered to be centre-right. The Times and The Sunday Times, which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently, and have only had common ownership since 1966. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp.
It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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