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The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. 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, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. 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 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 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 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. An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006. The Times has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index. A complete historical file of the digitised paper, up to 2010, is online from Gale Cengage Learning.

The Times was founded by publisher John Walter on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor. 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. Unemployed, Walter began a new business venture. At that time, Henry Johnson invented the logography, a new typography that was reputedly faster and more precise (although three years later, it was proved less efficient than advertised). Walter bought the logography's patent and with it opened a printing house to produce books. The first publication of the newspaper The Daily Universal Register was on 1 January 1785. Walter changed the title after 940 editions on 1 January 1788 to The Times. In 1803, Walter handed ownership and editorship to his son of the same name. In spite of Walter Sr's sixteen-month stay in Newgate Prison for libel printed in The Times, his pioneering efforts to obtain Continental news, especially from France, helped build the paper's reputation among policy makers and financiers.

The Times used contributions from significant figures in the fields of politics, science, literature, and the arts to build its reputation. For much of its early life, the profits of The Times were very large and the competition minimal, so it could pay far better than its rivals for information or writers. Beginning in 1814, the paper was printed on the new steam-driven cylinder press developed by Friedrich Koenig. In 1815, The Times had a circulation of 5,000.

Thomas Barnes was appointed general editor in 1817. In the same year, the paper's printer James Lawson, died and passed the business onto his son John Joseph Lawson (1802–1852). Under the editorship of Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of The Times rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the City of London. Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling were two noted journalists, and gained for The Times the pompous/satirical nickname 'The Thunderer' (from "We thundered out the other day an article on social and political reform."). The increased circulation and influence of the paper was based in part to its early adoption of the steam-driven rotary printing press. Distribution via steam trains to rapidly growing concentrations of urban populations helped ensure the profitability of the paper and its growing influence.

The Times was one of the first newspapers to send war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. William Howard Russell, the paper's correspondent with the army in the Crimean War, was immensely influential with his dispatches back to England.

The Times faced financial extinction in 1890 under Arthur Fraser Walter, but it was rescued by an energetic editor, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell. During his tenure (1890–1911), The Times became associated with selling the Encyclopædia Britannica using aggressive American marketing methods introduced by Horace Everett Hooper and his advertising executive, Henry Haxton. Due to legal fights between the Britannica's two owners, Hooper and Walter Montgomery Jackson, The Times severed its connection in 1908 and was bought by pioneering newspaper magnate, Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe.

In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914, Wickham Steed, the Times's Chief Editor, argued that the British Empire should enter World War I. On 8 May 1920, also under the editorship of Steed, The Times in an editorial endorsed the anti-Semitic fabrication The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document, and called Jews the world's greatest danger. In the leader entitled "The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry", Steed wrote about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
What are these 'Protocols'? Are they authentic? If so, what malevolent assembly concocted these plans and gloated over their exposition? Are they forgery? If so, whence comes the uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in part fulfilled, in part so far gone in the way of fulfillment?".

The following year, when Philip Graves, the Constantinople (modern Istanbul) correspondent of The Times, exposed The Protocols as a forgery, The Times retracted the editorial of the previous year.

In 1922, John Jacob Astor, son of the 1st Viscount Astor, bought The Times from the Northcliffe estate. The paper gained a measure of notoriety in the 1930s with its advocacy of German appeasement; editor Geoffrey Dawson was closely allied with those in the government who practised appeasement, most notably Neville Chamberlain. Candid news reports by Norman Ebbut from Berlin that warned of warmongering were rewritten in London to support the appeasement policy.

Kim Philby, a double agent with primary allegiance to the Soviet Union, was a correspondent for the newspaper in Spain during the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s. Philby was admired for his courage in obtaining high-quality reporting from the front lines of the bloody conflict. He later joined British Military Intelligence (MI6) during World War II, was promoted into senior positions after the war ended, and defected to the Soviet Union when discovery was inevitable in 1963.

Between 1941 and 1946, the left-wing British historian E. H. Carr was assistant editor. Carr was well known for the strongly pro-Soviet tone of his editorials. In December 1944, when fighting broke out in Athens between the Greek Communist ELAS and the British Army, Carr in a Times leader sided with the Communists, leading Winston Churchill to condemn him and the article in a speech to the House of Commons. As a result of Carr's editorial, The Times became popularly known during that stage of World War II as "the threepenny Daily Worker" (the price of the Communist Party's Daily Worker being one penny).

On 3 May 1966, it resumed printing news on the front page – previously the front page had been given over to small advertisements, usually of interest to the moneyed classes in British society. Also in 1966, the Royal Arms, which had been a feature of the newspaper's masthead since its inception, was abandoned. In the same year, members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson. His Thomson Corporation brought it under the same ownership as The Sunday Times to form Times Newspapers Limited.

An industrial dispute prompted the management to shut the paper for nearly a year from 1 December 1978 to 12 November 1979.

The Thomson Corporation management were struggling to run the business due to the 1979 energy crisis and union demands. Management sought a buyer who was in a position to guarantee the survival of both titles, and had the resources and was committed to funding the introduction of modern printing methods.

Several suitors appeared, including Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland and Lord Rothermere; however, only one buyer was in a position to meet the full Thomson remit, Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch. Robert Holmes à Court, another Australian magnate had previously tried to buy The Times in 1980.

In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International. The acquisition followed three weeks of intensive bargaining with the unions by company negotiators John Collier and Bill O'Neill. Murdoch gave legal undertakings to maintain separate journalism resources for the two titles. The Royal Arms was reintroduced to the masthead at about this time, but whereas previously it had been that of the reigning monarch, it would now be that of the House of Hanover, who were on the throne when the newspaper was founded.

After 14 years as editor, William Rees-Mogg resigned upon completion of the change of ownership. Murdoch began to make his mark on the paper by appointing Harold Evans as his replacement. One of his most important changes was the introduction of new technology and efficiency measures. Between March 1981 and May 1982, following agreement with print unions, the hot-metal Linotype printing process used to print The Times since the 19th century was phased out and replaced by computer input and photo-composition. This allowed print room staff at The Times and The Sunday Times to be reduced by half. However, direct input of text by journalists ("single-stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the Wapping dispute of 1986, when The Times moved from New Printing House Square in Gray's Inn Road (near Fleet Street) to new offices in Wapping.

Robert Fisk, seven times British International Journalist of the Year, resigned as foreign correspondent in 1988 over what he saw as "political censorship" of his article on the shooting-down of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988. He wrote in detail about his reasons for resigning from the paper due to meddling with his stories, and the paper's pro-Israel stance.

In June 1990, The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles ("Mr", "Mrs", or "Miss" prefixes) for living persons before full names on first reference, but it continues to use them before surnames on subsequent references. In 1992, it accepted the use of "Ms" for unmarried women "if they express a preference."

In November 2003, News International began producing the newspaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes. Over the next year, the broadsheet edition was withdrawn from Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the West Country. Since 1 November 2004, the paper has been printed solely in tabloid format.

On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. According to its leading article "From Our Own Correspondents", the reason for removal of full postal addresses was to fit more letters onto the page.

In a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, Murdoch stated that the law and the independent board prevented him from exercising editorial control.

In May 2008, printing of The Times switched from Wapping to new plants at Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire, and Merseyside and Glasgow, enabling the paper to be produced with full colour on every page for the first time.

On 26 July 2012, to coincide with the official start of the London 2012 Olympics and the issuing of a series of souvenir front covers, The Times added the suffix "of London" to its masthead.

In March 2016, the paper dropped its rolling digital coverage for a series of 'editions' of the paper at 9am, midday and 5pm on weekdays. The change also saw a redesign for the paper's app for smartphones and tablets.

The Times has been at the forefront of British journalism since it was founded as The Daily Universal Register in 1785. More than two hundred years later, as it has adapted to the changing interests and lifestyles of its readers, The Times has been one of the newspaper success stories of the last decade of the twentieth century. Since 1993 sales of The Times have almost doubled.

The Times is the premier news and content provider, enhancing knowledge through its objective, informative and authoritative coverage. In a time of information overload The Times helps its readers to keep informed and to "join the debate". As well as Home and World News, Business and Sport, the paper covers Lifestyle, Health and Fashion, Home and Interiors, Arts and Entertainment, Property, Travel, Motoring, Jobs and Careers. It is renowned for the quality of its journalism, and its writers and columnists include some of the biggest names in journalism.

Daily sections:
Business
The Times Business pages are designed to give readers precisely what they need to know: a concise, comprehensive daily business briefing. The Business section, which sits in the middle of the newspaper at the heart of The Times, sets a clear agenda, identifying the most important stories of the day. It not only prides itself on breaking news, but, more valuably, explaining what those stories mean. The Editor’s commentary, analysis from specialist correspondents and stock tips from the Tempus column, offer information and judgment.

Sport:
The Times is committed to providing intelligent and incisive reporting into the world of sport. Acclaimed journalists offer readers the essential guide across all sports. Simon Barnes, Martin Samuel, Jonny Wilkinson, Gabrielle Marcotti, Matt Dickinson, Kevin Eason and Lydia Hislop are just some of the writers and columnists who contribute to this award winning section. From Tuesday to Saturday The Times brings news, results and pictures of the world’s sporting events from the Melbourne Cup to the Champions League to Wimbledon. The Times is succinct, clear and offers a wider range of coverage than its rivals. The Times delivers fantastic coverage day in, day out.

Times2:
Times2 is The Times’ daily features section which offers intelligent readers an informative and entertaining look at the subjects that shape our daily lives. Alongside the daily mix of health, fashion, reportage, arts & entertainment, each day has a section devoted to a particular subject: Monday: Health, Tuesday: Men, Wednesday: Style, Thursday: Screen, Friday: Sounds. The supplement complements The Times’ comprehensive news coverage. As part of the nation’s journal of record, Times2 recognises that the modern reader has a broad range of interests and limited time in which to indulge and expand them. The supplement provides knowledge for the knowing.

Main News, Business, Sport and Times2 feature in The Times every day. Each day we publish the following additional supplements within The Times:
The Game (Monday)
Every Monday brings The Game, The Times’ weekly supplement dedicated to 'the greatest sport on earth' - football. It puts the weekend in context and sets the scene for the days ahead. From the Premier League down to the Conference, The Game delivers intelligent reporting of the issues important to the football fan.

Law (Tuesday)
The Times is the only national newspaper to offer a Law supplement and is the most trusted voice in the legal profession. Published on Tuesday, Law has built up an exceptional relationship with the legal profession and the newspaper reaches more legal professionals than any other quality daily and more business people who are actively involved in legal issues at work than any other quality daily newspaper.

Public Agenda (Tuesday)
The Times Public Agenda focuses on public, education and health issues; the section is for anyone with an interest in the public sector. Every Tuesday Public Agenda brings you a digest of the week's most important news and comments, plus clear guidance on current legislation, management thinking and good professional practice. Public Agenda produces special supplements on the Olympics, Diversity, Charity, Recruitment and Interim.

Crème (Wednesday)
Crème provides professional PAs, secretaries and office personnel, with comprehensive editorial and recruitment advertising. Crème carries a broad range of articles reflecting our coverage of all sectors of the secretarial marketplace.

Career (Thursday)
Particularly popular among students and graduates, The Times Career supports its unique, ambitious audience through celebrating and informing all aspects of careers, in a witty and insightful way. High Fliers Research has named The Times as the leading newspaper for students and career graduate specials are produced throughout the year.

Bricks And Mortar (Friday)
Bricks and Mortar was launched in September 2002 with a look, a title and a remit aimed at bringing journalistic rigour to property coverage. It started from the premise of what readers want to know - how much their house is worth, whether they should buy or sell, how to unlock value from their property and how the other half lives. Young readers in particular are desperate for information, but all readers are interested in fine, witty, clever visuals and creative content. Bricks and Mortar is a mix of facts and figures, fantasies and fun. It features excellent writing from a pool of talent new to property pages.

Travel (Saturday)
In the Saturday Travel, The Times helps readers to find the holidays that suit them best, whether they are families wanting a relaxing break, singles and groups of friends heading for city breaks, or more adventurous travellers who wish to explore off the beaten track. Most weeks, the newspaper takes a thematic approach, concentrating on a place or type of travel, whether it’s looking at a destination such as Morocco or Brazil, or a type of travel such as villa holidays or adult gap-year trips. This makes the section more useful to readers, and therefore more likely to linger longer on their coffee tables. The Times urges all its readers to think about the environmental impact their trip has on the host country, and the newspaper ensures that all its travel writers’ flights are carbon-offset, by making the appropriate donation to the organisation Climate Care each week.

Money (Saturday)
The Times Money helps readers to make the most of their money. The section equips readers with essential news and information about everything from saving and investing, taxes and mortgages, to borrowing, insurance and pensions. Best buy tables review and compare the best financial products available on the market. And readers are advised on topical issues such as how to protect their interests against topical events from the raid on Northern Rock to the property market and rising interest rates to how to protection against the Revenue’s data blunder.

The Times Magazine (Saturday)
The Times Magazine is authoritative, in-depth, but always hugely entertaining and witty; it is a source of information, knowledge, entertainment and opinion. Writers and columnists including Kate Muir, Lucia van der Post, Robert Crampton, Lisa Armstrong, Sarah Vine, Giles Coren and Gordon Ramsay cover lifestyle, fashion and beauty, home and garden, food and drink. The Times Magazine offers glamour and luxury combined with authority, wit and intelligence.

Body & Soul (Saturday)
Body & Soul is an innovative and unique product in the newspaper market which taps into a growing trend in society. A holistic guide to well-being and improving your potential, the supplement looks at diverse subjects such as health & fitness, relationships and emotions, therapies and science.

The Knowledge (Saturday)
The Knowledge is The Times’ critical guide to the cultural week. The magazine, which is integrated with Times Online, includes features and interviews, reviews and critics' selections for the week ahead in screen, the stage, sounds, sights and eating out in four regional editions, while Times Online provides fully searchable listings for London and the UK regions, as well as the facility to book cinema tickets.

Books (Saturday)
This 20 page, compact section is edited by Erica Wagner, Literary Editor of The Times and ex-Booker Prize judge. It covers literary news and reviews across all categories including fiction, biography, audio, children, travel and sport and the ability to buy the books at discounted prices from Times Books First.

Luxx (Saturday)
Luxx is an exquisite large format 64 page quarterly glossy magazine, dedicated to showcasing the very best things in modern life that money can buy. Lavishly photographed and produced, Luxx brings the very best of Times journalism to the worlds of women and mens fashion, jewellery, accessories and watches, bespoke travel and hotels, design, property and collecting. The magazine speaks unashamedly, to upmarket Times readers, who have sophisticated tastes and a thirst for quality and innovation, and who are looking for knowledge and inspiration to guide them in their choices, whether its buying a pair of bespoke shoes, planning a rooftop swimming pool or commissioning a piece of furniture. The new luxury is not about it-labels: it is about authentic products, beautifully produced or well-sourced, and rare, individual pieces. In short, Luxx is an indispensable guide to the stories behind the best things in life.

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The Sunday Times is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in the quality press market category. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, which is in turn owned by News Corp. Times Newspapers also publishes The Times. The two papers were founded independently and have been under common ownership only since 1966. They were bought by News International in 1981.

The Sunday Times has a circulation of just over 650,000 which exceeds that of its main rivals, including The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer, combined. While some other national newspapers moved to a tabloid format in the early 2000s, The Sunday Times has retained the larger broadsheet format and has said that it will continue to do so. As of December 2019, it sells 75% more copies than its sister paper, The Times, which is published Monday to Saturday.

The Sunday Times has acquired a reputation for the strength of its investigative reporting – much of it by its Insight team – and also for its wide-ranging foreign coverage. It has a number of popular writers, columnists and commentators. It was Britain's first multi-section newspaper and remains substantially larger than its rivals. Besides the main news section, it has standalone News Review, Business, Sport, Money and Appointments sections – all broadsheet. There are three magazines (The Sunday Times Magazine, Culture, and Style) and three tabloid supplements (Travel, Home and InGear). It has a website and separate digital editions configured for both the iOS operating system for the Apple iPad and the Android operating system for such devices as the Google Nexus, all of which offer video clips, extra features and multimedia and other material not found in the printed version of the newspaper.

The paper publishes The Sunday Times Rich List, an annual survey of the wealthiest people in Britain and Ireland, equivalent to the Forbes 400 list in the United States, and a series of league tables with reviews of private British companies, in particular The Sunday Times Fast Track 100. The paper also produces an annual league table of the best-performing state and independent schools at both junior and senior level across the United Kingdom, entitled Parent Power (with additional information available online), and an annual league table of British universities and a similar one for Irish universities. It publishes The Sunday Times Bestseller List of books in Britain, and a list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For", focusing on UK companies. It also organises The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, held annually, and The Sunday Times Festival of Education, which takes place every year at Wellington College.

The paper began publication on 18 February 1821 as The New Observer, but from 21 April its title was changed to the Independent Observer. Its founder, Henry White, chose the name in an apparent attempt to take advantage of the success of the Observer, which had been founded in 1791, although there was no connection between the two papers. On 20 October 1822 it was reborn as The Sunday Times, although it had no relationship with The Times. In January 1823, White sold the paper to Daniel Whittle Harvey, a radical politician.

Under its new owner, The Sunday Times notched up several firsts: a wood engraving it published of the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838 was the largest illustration to have appeared in a British newspaper; in 1841, it became one of the first papers to serialise a novel: William Harrison Ainsworth's Old St Paul's.

The paper was bought in 1887 by Alice Anne Cornwell who had made a fortune in mining in Australia and floating the Midas Mine Company of the London Stock Exchange. She bought the paper to promote her new company, The British and Australasian Mining Investment Company, and as a gift to her lover Frederick Stannard (‘Phil’) Robinson. Robinson was installed as editor and she married him in 1894.

She then sold it in 1893 to Frederick Beer, who already owned Observer. Beer appointed his wife, Rachel Sassoon Beer, as editor. She was already editor of Observer – the first woman to run a national newspaper – and continued to edit both titles until 1901.

There was a further change of ownership in 1903, and then in 1915 the paper was bought by William Berry and his brother, Gomer Berry, later ennobled as Lord Camrose and Viscount Kemsley respectively. Under their ownership, The Sunday Times continued its reputation for innovation: on 23 November 1930, it became the first Sunday newspaper to publish a 40-page issue and on 21 January 1940, news replaced advertising on the front page.

In 1943, the Kemsley Newspapers Group was established, with The Sunday Times becoming its flagship paper. At this time, Kemsley was the largest newspaper group in Britain.

On 12 November 1945, Ian Fleming, who later created James Bond, joined the paper as foreign manager (foreign editor) and special writer. The following month, circulation reached 500,000. On 28 September 1958 the paper launched a separate Review section, becoming the first newspaper to publish two sections regularly.

In 1959 the Kemsley group was bought by Lord Thomson, and in October 1960 circulation reached one million for the first time. In another first, on 4 February 1962 the editor, Denis Hamilton, launched The Sunday Times Magazine. (At the insistence of newsagents, worried at the impact on sales of standalone magazines, it was initially called the "colour section" and did not take the name The Sunday Times Magazine until 9 August 1964.) The cover picture of the first issue was of Jean Shrimpton wearing a Mary Quant outfit and was taken by David Bailey. The magazine got off to a slow start, but the advertising soon began to pick up, and, over time, other newspapers launched magazines of their own.

In 1963, the Insight investigative team was established under Clive Irving. On 27 September 1964, the Business section was launched, making The Sunday Times Britain's first regular three-section newspaper. In September 1966, Thomson bought The Times, to form Times Newspapers Ltd (TNL). It was the first time both The Sunday Times and The Times had been brought under the same ownership.

Harold Evans, editor from 1967 until 1981, established The Sunday Times as a leading campaigning and investigative newspaper. On 19 May 1968, the paper published its first major campaigning report on the drug Thalidomide, which had been reported by the Australian doctor William McBride in The Lancet in 1961 as associated with birth defects, and quickly withdrawn. The newspaper published a four-page Insight investigation, entitled The Thalidomide File, in the Weekly Review section. A compensation settlement for the UK victims was eventually reached with Distillers Company (now part of Diageo), which had distributed the drug in the UK.

TNL was plagued by a series of industrial disputes at its plant at Gray's Inn Road in London, with the print unions resisting attempts to replace the old-fashioned hot-metal and labour-intensive Linotype method with technology that would allow the papers to be composed electronically. Thomson offered to invest millions of pounds to buy out obstructive practices and overmanning, but the unions rejected every proposal. As a result, publication of The Sunday Times and other titles in the group was suspended in November 1978. It did not resume until November 1979.

Although journalists at The Times had been on full pay during the suspension, they went on strike demanding more money after production was resumed. Kenneth Thomson, the head of the company, felt betrayed and decided to sell. Evans tried to organise a management buyout of The Sunday Times, but Thomson decided instead to sell to Rupert Murdoch, who he thought had a better chance of dealing with the trade unions.

Murdoch's News International acquired the group in February 1981. Murdoch, an Australian who in 1985 became a naturalised American citizen, already owned The Sun and the News of the World, but the Conservative government decided not to refer the deal to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, citing a clause in the Fair Trading Act that exempted uneconomic businesses from referral. The Thomson Corporation had threatened to close the papers down if they were not taken over by someone else within an allotted time, and it was feared that any legal delay to Murdoch's takeover might lead to the two titles' demise. In return, Murdoch provided legally binding guarantees to preserve the titles' editorial independence.

Evans was appointed editor of The Times in February 1981 and was replaced at The Sunday Times by Frank Giles. In 1983, the newspaper bought the serialisation rights to publish the faked Hitler Diaries, thinking them to be genuine after they were authenticated by the own newspaper's own independent director, Hugh Trevor-Roper, the historian and author of The Last Days of Hitler.

Under Andrew Neil, editor from 1983 until 1994, The Sunday Times took a strongly Thatcherite slant that contrasted with the traditional paternalistic conservatism expounded by Peregrine Worsthorne at the rival Sunday Telegraph. It also built on its reputation for investigations. Its scoops included the revelation in 1986 that Israel had manufactured more than 100 nuclear warheads and the publication in 1992 of extracts from Andrew Morton's book, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words. In the early 1990s, the paper courted controversy with a series of articles in which it rejected the role of HIV in causing AIDS.

In January 1986, after the announcement of a strike by print workers, production of The Sunday Times, along with other newspapers in the group, was shifted to a new plant in Wapping, and the strikers were dismissed. The plant, which allowed journalists to input copy directly, was activated with the help of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU). The print unions posted pickets and organised demonstrations outside the new plant to try to dissuade journalists and others from working there, in what became known as the Wapping Dispute. The demonstrations sometimes turned violent. The protest ended in failure in February 1987.

During Neil's editorship, a number of new sections were added: the annual The Sunday Times Rich List and the Funday Times, in 1989, (the latter stopped appearing in print and was relaunched as a standalone website in March 2006 but was later closed); Style & Travel, News Review and Arts in 1990, and Culture in 1992. In September 1994, Style and Travel became two separate sections.

During Neil's time as editor, The Sunday Times backed a campaign to prove that HIV was not a cause of AIDS. In 1990, The Sunday Times serialized a book by an American conservative who rejected the scientific consensus on the causes of AIDS and argued that AIDS could not spread to heterosexuals. Articles and editorials in The Sunday Times cast doubt on the scientific consensus, described HIV as a "politically correct virus" about which there was a "conspiracy of silence," disputed that AIDS was spreading in Africa, claimed that tests for HIV were invalid, described the HIV/AIDS treatment drug AZT as harmful, and characterized the WHO as an "Empire-building AIDS [organisation]." The pseudoscientific coverage of HIV/AIDS in the Sunday Times led the scientific journal Nature to monitor the newspaper's coverage and to publish letters rebutting Sunday Times articles which the Sunday Times refused to publish. In response to this, the Sunday Times published an article headlined "AIDS - why we won’t be silenced", which claimed that Nature engaged in censorship and "sinister intent". In his 1996 book, Full Disclosure, Neil wrote that the HIV/AIDS denialism "deserved publication to encourage debate." That same year, he wrote that the Sunday Times had been vindicated in its coverage, "The Sunday Times was one of a handful of newspapers, perhaps the most prominent, which argued that heterosexual Aids was a myth. The figures are now in and this newspaper stands totally vindicated... The history of Aids is one of the great scandals of our time. I do not blame doctors and the Aids lobby for warning that everybody might be at risk in the early days, when ignorance was rife and reliable evidence scant." He criticized the "AIDS establishment" and said "Aids had become an industry, a job-creation scheme for the caring classes."

John Witherow, who became editor at the end of 1994 (after several months as acting editor), continued the newspaper's expansion. A website was launched in 1996 and new print sections added: Home in 2001, and Driving in 2002, which in 2006 was renamed InGear. Technology coverage was expanded in 2000 with the weekly colour magazine Doors, and in 2003 The Month, an editorial section presented as an interactive CD-Rom. Magazine partworks were regular additions, among them 1000 Makers of Music, published over six weeks in 1997.

John Witherow oversaw a rise in circulation to 1.3 million and reconfirmed The Sunday Times's reputation for publishing hard-hitting news stories – such as Cash for Questions in 1994 and Cash for Honours in 2006 and revelations of corruption at Fifa in 2010. The newspaper's foreign coverage has been especially strong, and its reporters, Marie Colvin, Jon Swain, Hala Jaber, Mark Franchetti and Christina Lamb have dominated the Foreign Reporter of the Year category at the British Press Awards since 2000. Marie Colvin, who worked for the paper from 1985, was killed in February 2012 by Syrian forces while covering the siege of Homs during that country's civil war.

In common with other newspapers, The Sunday Times has been hit by a fall in circulation, which has declined from a peak of 1.3 million to just over 710,000. It has a number of digital-only subscribers, which numbered 99,017 by January 2019.

During January 2013, Martin Ivens became acting editor of The Sunday Times in succession to John Witherow, who became the 'acting' editor of The Times at the same time. The independent directors rejected a permanent position for Ivens as editors to avoid any possible merger of The Sunday Times and daily Times titles.

The Sunday Times is Britain's most successful and innovative broadsheet newspaper. It is renowned for the courage of its investigative journalism, the authority of its opinion pages, the indispensability of its news and business coverage and the breadth and depth of its features, ensuring more readers make time for The Sunday Times than any other quality paper.

Courageous and campaigning investigative journalism is only one part of what makes The Sunday Times Britain's most authoritative newspaper. It is equally renowned for the rigour of its political coverage, the vigour of its editorial and its commitment to providing a platform for diverse comment.

Sport
The Sunday Times publishes the biggest and best sports section in the Sunday quality market. Authoritative columnists and writers including Jeremy Guscott, Simon Barnes and Paul Kimmage cover all areas of sport from the football, cricket and rugby to cycling, tennis and sailing. The section covers Saturday’s match results and sporting news, analysis of the previous week in sport, interviews with key sporting personalities and a look to the week ahead.

Business
The Sunday Times Business is widely recognised as being the best on Sunday. The newspaper analyses the previous week in depth, interviews key figures from the business community and breaks business news stories that will set the agenda for the following week. The newspaper combines some of the most experienced business journalists with the best contacts in the industry and some of the rising stars of business journalism.

News Review
News Review is one of the most important sections of The Sunday Times; it is the heart of the newspaper. It pulls together the news items from the week that have caught the nation’s interest and raised important questions as well as highlighting forthcoming events. The section comprises a lively mix of book serialisations, interviews, comment and analysis and features. Columnists Rachel Johnson, Jeremy Clarkson and Andrew O’Sullivan and writers tackle the wider issues surrounding the news. News Review has the licence to explore in depth to give readers greater context to the issues of the week.

Travel
Travel is the definitive one-stop-shop for readers planning a getaway. It combines the best inspirational travel writing with the most authoritative practical guides to present an overall package which both the industry and the readership find invaluable. Travel leads the way with the big exclusives, covering important hotel openings, new trip launches, breaking travel news and all the latest trends. For many readers, it's the first section they turn to.

Money
The Sunday Times Money is an established and trusted source of financial market news and information - offering advertisers the ideal environment to target current investors.

Appointments
Appointments is dedicated to the recruitment needs of senior managers. It provides an ideal environment from which to reach your target audience. Public Appointments has its own front page, plus complete and concise editorial content to best meet the requirements of both readers and advertisers alike.

Culture
Culture is the ultimate full-colour one-stop section for arts, books and entertainment coverage, with reviews, features, interviews, a dedicated Music section and compendious broadcast listings. The magazine covers everything from Hollywood to pub theatre, if they think it is of merit. Culture is for anybody who wants to follow what's new and important in arts and entertainment today, whatever their age or tastes. It offers authoritative specialists, but writing in a style that is accessible to all. The aim is to be a 'seven-day section', kept and read throughout the week.

Style
Style is The Sunday Times’ glossy fashion and lifestyle magazine for women and men. Its beating heart covers fashion, beauty, health, celebrities, gossip, relationships, interiors and food. Writers and columnists including Colin McDowell, Shane Watson, Heston Blumenthal and Christa d’Souza are combined with stunning photography and imagery. Style is so much more than the way you look. It’s what you enjoy, it’s how you live, it’s the way you want to spend your time. And we all like to dream of how our lives can be that little bit more fabulous.

Home
Home is The Sunday Times popular section, which covers everything to do with homes and property. Readers can find out the latest news and trends in the property market in the UK and abroad, read features on beautiful homes with photography to match and explore the world of gardening as the year progresses. Writers and columnists including Kevin McCloud and Rosie Millard give news and advice on a wide range of issues such as property, homes, interiors and gardening.

InGear
InGear, is the weekly section for men, which incorporates everything to do with driving, adventure, high adrenaline sports, technology and gadgets. It covers what's new, what you should spend your money on and what's worth a bit of risk taking. It embraces everything a man wants, from high octane driving to extreme sports.

The Sunday Times Magazine
The Sunday Times Magazine has remained one of the world's truly influential magazines - much imitated, from the New York Times Magazine to Figaro. Editorial executives from as far afield as Argentina and Hong Kong come to shadow Sunday Times Magazine executives "to see how it's done". The Sunday Times Magazine maintains its USP. With its core ingredients of photo-reportage and investigative journalism, our weekly aim is to compel the reader to commit; to surprise them with unpredictable and insightful journalism, to search for and identify those stories that are not on their radar screens, those stories that are not on their agendas but should be.