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.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4]
As of December 2016, the Sunday Mail had a circulation of 172,513.[5] This decreased to 166,195 in February 2017,[6] 159,880 in April 2017,[7] 152,892 in July 2017[8] and 104,608 in March 2020.[9]
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.[10]
Editors
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)[18]
- 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
External links
References
- Sunday Mail Audit Bureau of Circulations, 11 June 2024, retrieved 4 July 2024^
- Tabloid journalism Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 2020-09-19^
- Mackintosh Architecture: Biography www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk, retrieved 29 December 2021^
- Sunday Mail's 'secret shame' The Guardian, 20 September 1999^
- Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year Press Gazette, 23 January 2017, retrieved 28 January 2017^
- National Newspaper Circulation Certificate: February 2017^
- Freddy Mayhew. Print ABCs: Bulks boost Times as Trinity Mirror nationals and Scottish dailies record double-digit circulation falls Press Gazette, 18 May 2017^
- Freddy Mayhew. Print ABCs: Metro only newspaper to grow distribution as all paid-for nationals lost sales in July Press Gazette, 17 August 2017^
- Sunday Mail - Data - ABC www.abc.org.uk^
- Sunday Mail backs Scottish Green Party in European elections Daily Record, 12 May 2019, retrieved 12 May 2019^
- Clive Sandground Herald Scotland, 1 September 1993^
- Roy Greenslade. Endell Laird, former Daily Record and Sunday Mail editor, dies aged 81 The Guardian, 10 July 2015^
- Noel Young. Maxwell and all that: Could Warren Buffett more than fill his shoes? The Drum, 6 May 2012^
- Cox new editor at The Daily Record PR Week, 8 September 2000^
- Allan Rennie Speakers for Schools^
- Sunday Mail editor steps down HoldtheFrontPage^
- Freddy Mayhew. News team merger to create seven-day operation at Sunday Mail and Daily Record puts 22 jobs at risk Press Gazette, 13 October 2016^
- David Gow. Angus Macleod obituary The Guardian, 12 October 2014^