Sunday People
{{Short description|Tabloid newspaper published in London}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Sunday People
| image = The_Sunday_People.jpg
| caption = Front page on 4 December 2016
| type = Sunday newspaper
| language = English
| format = Red top
| foundation = 16 October 1881
| owners = Reach plc
| headquarters = London
| editor = Caroline Waterston
| circulation = 45,739
| circulation_date = February 2025
| circulation_ref = {{cite web |title=Sunday People |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/682 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations |date=12 November 2024 |access-date=25 November 2024}}
| ISSN = 0307-7292
| website = {{URL|https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/sunday-people|mirror.co.uk/sunday-people}}
}}
The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as The People on 16 October 1881.{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html |title=Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century |access-date=16 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224071628/http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html |archive-date=24 February 2008}}
At one point owned by Odhams Press, The People was acquired along with Odhams by the Mirror Group in 1961, along with the Daily Herald, which eventually became The Sun. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid on September 22, 1974.
The Sunday People is now published by Reach plc,{{cite web |title=The People to make six staff redundant |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/30/trinity-mirror-the-people-six-redundancies |work=The Guardian |access-date=6 February 2011 |author1=Luft, Oliver |author2=Brook, Stephen |date=30 January 2009}} and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the News of the World, it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544.{{cite news |author=Sweney, Mark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/14/the-sun-post-christmas-sales-bounce |title=The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise |work=The Guardian |date=14 February 2014}} By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364{{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 |access-date=28 January 2017}} and by August 2020 to 125,216.{{cite web|title=Audit Bureau of Circulation: Sunday People|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/682|website=ABC|access-date=22 September 2020}}
Notable events
In March 1951 the Sunday People (then known as The People) published an article claiming that the British military had allowed Iban mercenaries to collect scalps from human corpses in the ongoing Malayan Emergency war. British colonial officials saw this article as a potential propaganda threat and drew plans to release a rebuttal in the Straits Times. The paper's claims would later be proven true following the British Malayan headhunting scandal.{{Cite book |last=Poole |first=Dan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1HcEAAAQBAJ&q=In%20March%201951%20a%20British%20newspaper%20called%20the%20people |title=Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency: The Atrocity and Cover-Up |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |year=2023 |isbn=978-1399057417 |pages=xxvi - xxvii}}
Notable columnists
- Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell on the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the Daily Star Sunday.
- Jimmy Greaves, the former England footballer{{cite web |url=http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2010/03/28/celebrity-x-factor-93463-22143891/|title=CELEBRITY X FACTOR |author1=Jessica Boulton |author2=Katie Hind |author3=Ben Duffy |date=28 March 2010 |work=People |access-date=1 May 2012}}
- Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler
- Fred Harrison, an established economics author of 19 books
- Dean Dunham, consumer columnist and leading authority on Consumer protection.
Editors
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- 1881: Sebastian Evans
- 1890: Harry Benjamin Vogel
- 1900: Joseph Hatton
- 1913: John Sansome
- 1922: Robert Donald
- 1924: Hannen Swaffer
- 1925: Harry Ainsworth
- 1957: Stuart Campbell
- 1966: Bob Edwards
- 1972: Geoffrey Pinnington
- 1982: Nicholas Lloyd
- 1984: Richard Stott
- 1985: Ernie Burrington
- 1988: John Blake
- 1989: Wendy Henry
- 1989: Ernie Burrington (acting)
- 1990: Richard Stott
- 1991: Bill Hagerty
- 1992: Bridget Rowe
- 1996: Brendon Parsons
- 1998: Neil Wallis
- 2003: Mark Thomas
- 2008: Lloyd Embley
- 2012: James Scott
- 2014: Alison Phillips{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/06/new-day-editor-alison-phillps-normal-women|title=Alison Phillips: 'The New Day is about looking behind the news'|last=Greenslade|first=Roy|date=6 March 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=6 March 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
- 2016: Gary Jones{{cite news |last=Waterson |first=Jim |title=Gary Jones on taking over Daily Express: 'It was anti-immigrant. I couldn't sleep' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/28/gary-jones-on-taking-over-daily-express-it-was-anti-immigrant-i-couldnt-sleep |access-date=27 January 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=28 April 2019}}
- 2018: Peter Willis{{cite news |last1=Wynne Jones |first1=Ros |title='Heart of the Daily Mirror' and Pride of Britain founder Peter Willis dies aged 54 |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pride-britain-founder-former-mirror-24415537 |access-date=5 July 2021 |work=Daily Mirror |date=28 June 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Tobitt |first1=Charlotte |title=Pride of Britain founder and Mirror man of 23 years Peter Willis dies suddenly aged 54 |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/peter-willis-mirror-pride-of-britain-dies/ |access-date=5 July 2021 |work=Press Gazette |date=28 June 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Waterson |first1=Jim |last2=O'Caroll |first2=Lisa |title=Peter Willis, Pride of Britain founder and ex-Mirror editor, dies at 54 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/29/peter-willis-mirror-editor-pride-of-britain-founder-dies |access-date=5 July 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=29 June 2021}}
- 2020: Paul Henderson
- 2021: Gemma Aldridge
- 2024: Caroline Waterston
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References
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