Sunday Mail (Scotland)
{{Short description|Scottish newspaper}}
{{distinguish|the Mail on Sunday}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Sunday Mail (Scotland)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Sunday Mail
| image = Sunday Mail, 1.7.07.jpg
| caption = Front page on 10 April 2016, reporting on Scottish figures named in the Panama Papers
| type = Sunday newspaper (If Christmas Day falls on Sunday, instead of a normal edition a special Christmas edition would be published on Saturday which is Christmas Eve)
| format = Tabloid
| price =
| owners = Reach plc
| foundation = {{start date and age|1919}}
| headquarters = Glasgow, Scotland, UK
| sister newspapers = Daily Record
| circulation = 39,783
| circulation_date = February 2025
| circulation_ref = {{cite web |title=Sunday Mail |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/2932 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations |date=11 June 2024 |access-date=4 July 2024}}
| ISSN = 0307-5877
| image_alt = border
| website = {{URL|https://www.sundaymail.co.uk}}
}}
The Sunday Mail is a Scottish tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. It is the sister paper of the Daily Record and is owned by Reach plc.{{Cite web|title=Tabloid journalism|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/tabloid-journalism|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en}}
It should not be confused with The Mail on Sunday; the Daily Mail was unable to use the title Sunday Mail when it launched a Sunday edition in 1982 because of the Scottish paper.
History
The paper was founded in Glasgow in 1919. In 1922, Gomer Berry (later 1st Viscount Kemsley) bought the Sunday Mail, its sister paper the Daily Record, and another newspaper, the Glasgow Evening News, for £1 million. He formed a controlling company known as Associated Scottish Newspapers Ltd.{{Cite web|title=Mackintosh Architecture: Biography|url=https://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/name/?nid=DaiRec|access-date=29 December 2021|website=www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk}} Kemsley sold all three papers to the London-based Mirror Group in 1955.
In September 1999, when Editor Jim Cassidy was sacked, the paper's circulation was 767,000. Its nearest rival was the Scottish edition of the News of the World which sold around 350,000 copies at that time.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/1999/sep/20/mondaymediasection.comment1|title=Sunday Mail's 'secret shame'|date=20 September 1999|work=The Guardian}}
As of December 2016, the Sunday Mail had a circulation of 172,513.{{cite web|title=Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/print-abcs-seven-uk-national-newspapers-losing-print-sales-at-more-than-10-per-cent-year-on-year/|website=Press Gazette|date=23 January 2017 |access-date=28 January 2017}} This decreased to 166,195 in February 2017,{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/48532149.pdf|title=National Newspaper Circulation Certificate: February 2017}} 159,880 in April 2017,{{cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/print-abcs-bulks-boost-times-as-trinity-mirror-nationals-and-scottish-dailies-record-double-digital-circulation-falls/|title=Print ABCs: Bulks boost Times as Trinity Mirror nationals and Scottish dailies record double-digit circulation falls|first=Freddy|last=Mayhew|date=18 May 2017|work=Press Gazette}} 152,892 in July 2017{{cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/print-abcs-metro-only-newspaper-to-grow-distribution-as-all-paid-for-nationals-lost-sales-in-july/|title=Print ABCs: Metro only newspaper to grow distribution as all paid-for nationals lost sales in July|first=Freddy|last=Mayhew|date=17 August 2017|work=Press Gazette}} and 104,608 in March 2020.{{cite web |title=Sunday Mail - Data - ABC {{!}} Audit Bureau of Circulations |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/2932 |website=www.abc.org.uk}}
On 12 May 2019, the Sunday Mail announced its support for the Scottish Greens in the upcoming EU elections, becoming the first major publication in Scotland to back the party, despite disagreeing with the Greens' pro-independence stance.{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/sunday-mail-backs-scottish-green-15296756|title=Sunday Mail backs Scottish Green Party in European elections|date=12 May 2019|work=Daily Record|access-date=12 May 2019}}
Editors
:1973: Clive Sandground{{cite news|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12721119.clive-sandground/|title=Clive Sandground|work=Herald Scotland|date=1 September 1993}}
:2000: Allan Rennie{{cite web|url=http://www.speakers4schools.org/speakers/allan-rennie/|title=Allan Rennie|publisher=Speakers for Schools}}
Current news and features journalists
- Norman Silvester
- Craig McDonald
- John Ferguson (political editor)
- Julie-Anne Barnes
- Heather Greenaway
- Allan Bryce (sports editor)
Former news and features journalists
- Marion Scott
- Charles Lavery
- Andrew Gold
- Angus McLeod (political editor){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/12/angus-macleod-obituary|title=Angus Macleod obituary|first=David|last=Gow|date=12 October 2014|work=The Guardian}}
- Russell Findlay
- Brian Lironi (political editor)
- John Nairn
- Bill Aitken
- Alex Scotland
- Steve Dinneen
- Jamie Livingstone
- Noreen Barr
- Andy Sannholm
- Suzie Cormack
- Victoria Raimes
- Archie McKay
- Gavin Goodwin
- Nick Hunter (assistant editor)
- John Finlayson
Former columnists
- Alex Scotland
- Elaine C. Smith
- Gerry Hassan
- Gary Keown
- Scott Robinson
- Melanie Reid
See also
References
External links
- [http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/ Sunday Mail homepage]
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Category:Newspapers published in Scotland
Category:Mass media in Glasgow
Category:Sunday newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Category:Newspapers published by Reach plc
Category:1919 establishments in Scotland
Category:Newspapers established in 1919
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