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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Daily Mail and General Trust |
Publisher | DMG Media |
Editor | David Dillon |
Founded | 2 May 1982 |
Political alignment | Conservative |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Northcliffe House, Kensington, London, England |
Circulation | 580,737 (as of May 2024)[1] |
ISSN | 0263-8878 |
Website | www |
The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. It is the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper in the UK and was founded in 1982 by Lord Rothermere. Its sister paper, the Daily Mail, was first published in 1896.
In July 2011, following the closure of the News of the World, The Mail on Sunday sold 2.5 million copies a week—making it Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper—but by September that had fallen back to just under 2 million.[2] Like the Daily Mail, it is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), but the editorial staffs of the two papers are entirely separate.[citation needed] It had an average weekly circulation of 1,284,121 in December 2016; this had fallen to 673,525 by December 2022.[3][1] In April 2020, the Society of Editors announced that the Mail on Sunday was the winner of the Sunday Newspaper of the Year for 2019.[4]