The document summarizes information about The Sun, a daily tabloid newspaper published in the UK. Some key details: - The Sun has the largest readership of any national daily newspaper in the UK, with over 7 million readers. - It focuses on celebrity coverage, human interest stories, and tabloid-style reporting rather than political news or international affairs. - The current editor is David Dinsmore, who has worked at The Sun and its parent company News International for over 20 years.

1. The press applies to the section of the mass media
industry that their center of attention is on presenting
current news to the public.
It also refers to a company that produces or publishes
literature or information.

2.  The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and
Ireland.
 On 26 February 2012, The Sun on Sunday was launched to replace the redundant
News of the World, employing a number of its former journalists.
 The Sun was first published as a broadsheet on 15 September 1964 – with a logo
featuring a glowing orange disc.
 The rate of growth for the tabloid was slower than in July, when it had a 3% rise
on June. Year on year, the Sun was down 0.64%.

3. NATIONAL DAILY
NEWSPAPERS

1. The Sun (7,772,000 readers)
2. The Daily Mail (4,741,000)
3. The Daily Mirror (3,087,000)*
4. Metro (3,287,000)
5. The Daily Telegraph (1,680,000)
6. The Times (1,565,000)
7. Daily Star (1,571,000)
8. Daily Express (1,427,000)
9. The Guardian (1,103,000)
10. The Independent (532,000)

The Sun is the UK’s most successful and best loved newspaper, read by more than seven million readers in the UK
every day.

The sun had an average daily circulation of 2,409,811 copies in January 2013.

The editor of ‘the sun’ is David Dinsmore. Dinsmore grew up in Glasgow, and began working for News
International at the age of 22.

In 2004, Dinsmore became night edit or of The Sun, and in 2006, he was appointed editor of the Scottish edition of
the paper, serving until 2010.

David Dinsmore then became general manager of the paper in Scotland, then managing editor in London, and
director of operations for News International..

4. PRESS INDUSTRY
 less meaningful newspapers, generally known as tabloids, and
collectively as "the popular press", which have tended to focus more
on celebrity coverage and human interest stories rather than political
reporting or overseas news.

5. THE SUN
 Sun employment was launched in August 2009 and since then we have found work for more than
70,000 people – including apprenticeships and seasonal jobs
 Dear Deidre is The Sun’s longest serving columnist and one of the UK’s best- known agony aunts,
having spent over 30 years with the paper.
 Research has shown that £1 in every £7 spent on groceries is spent by a Sun reader
 14% of petrol bought in a week is paid for by a Sun reader
 The Sun’s Dream team and Page 3 websites each attract around a quarter of a million visits every
week
 According to National Readership Survey (NRS):
 The Sun reaches 7.3 Million readers
 The Sun reaches over 2.6 million ABC1 readers
 The Sun has 1.3 million female shoppers with kids, more than any other
 Rupert Murdoch is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News
Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.