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Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. [ 2][ 3] Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the i, The Scotsman, the Yorkshire Post, the Falkirk Herald, and Belfast 's The News Letter. The company was operating around 200 newspapers and associated websites around the United Kingdom and the Isle ...
John Ritchie (3 February 1778 – 21 December 1870) was a Scottish newspaper owner. He was born at Kirkcaldy, Fife, and at an early age went in service to a small farmer near Largo. Later he returned to Kirkcaldy, working as a hand-loom weaver. In around 1800 he moved to Edinburgh (where his younger brother William was training in the law), and ...
The Scotsman. The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its parent company, National World, also publishes the Edinburgh Evening News.
The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783. [ 2] The Herald is the longest running national newspaper in the world [ 3] and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world. [ 4] The title was simplified from The Glasgow Herald in 1992. [ 5] Following the closure of the Sunday Herald, the Herald on Sunday was launched as a ...
The Cincinnati Times-Star was an afternoon daily newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, from 1880 to 1958. The Northern Kentucky edition was known as The Kentucky Times-Star, [1] and a Sunday edition was known as The Sunday Times-Star. The Times-Star was owned by the Taft family and originally edited by Charles Phelps Taft, then, by his ...
The Edinburgh Evening News is a daily newspaper and website based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded by John Wilson (1844–1909) and first published in 1873. [2] It is printed daily, except on Sundays. It is owned by National World, which also owns The Scotsman . Much of the content of the Evening News concerns local issues such as ...
In Scotland, two broadsheet newspapers have made the switch to 'compact' format. The Scotsman did so in August 2004, and the Sunday Herald followed in November 2005. In addition to newspapers published in Scotland, including Scottish editions of United Kingdom newspapers, a number of local newspapers published in other parts of the British Isles are widely available.
Scotland on Sunday was launched on 7 August 1988 and was priced at 40p.. Ultimate ownership of Scotland on Sunday has changed several times since launch. The Scotsman Publications Limited, which also produces The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and the Herald & Post series of free newspapers in Edinburgh, Fife, West Lothian and Perth, was bought by the Canadian millionaire Roy Thomson in 1953.