Talk:The Sunday Times

Founded when?

The text has the paper founded 1822 (or 1821), but the infobox and categories have 1864. Any idea why? Dsp13 (talk) 23:05, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Centre?

It seems centre-right to me. Apparently it was centre a few decades ago. 86.178.229.129 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:29, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Agreed; it's been to the center-right of UK politics for years IMO. 92.29.49.223 (talk) 19:46, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Ecosse has been discontinued, price rise to £2.20, new ipad app

It's been discontinued as of June 2010. Scottish edition now contains some Scots-related articles in In Gear (motoring), Money, Home (property) and Business but the Scot version is more or less the same as the main (southern) version. In October or November the UK retail price increased to £2.20 and some large retailers briefly stopped carrying the paper (Asda, for example). No mention of the Sunday Times iPad app either? (launched Dec 12th) 94.195.120.144 (talk) 18:11, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Article by A A Gill in the Sunday Times Magazine some years ago

I am looking for confirmation of the existence and title of an article that was published in The Sunday Times Magazine a a few years ago (not sure the exact year), written by A. A. Gill and concerning Cornwall and or Cornish people, that I may wish to use as a source for a wikipedia article about attitudes to Cornish people. Where might one find an index of previous article titles etc. for this publication? Govynn (talk) 17:48, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

"quality"?

Can we go with broadsheet for consistency and impartiality? Beingsshepherd (talk) 15:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Political polling supplier

According to British Political Facts by Butler, the Sunday edition uses You Gov while the weekday uses Populus. Libraryloser (talk) 14:20, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

"Broadsheet" or "Quality press"

User:Helper201 has recently changed the lead sentence from referring to "quality" to "broadsheet".

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national "quality" Sunday newspaper.

I reverted the edit to "quality" with the edit summary "Broadsheet" describes the size, "quality" the seriousness.". Helper201 has re-reverted to "Broadsheet", with the edit summary "Yes, but this is a controversial term, broadsheet is factually accurate."

As indicated in the Quality press and Broadsheet articles, one describes the physical size of the paper and the other the style and market segment. Our use of quotes acknowledges the special usage of the word "quality". There used to be a correlation between the size of British national newspapers and their market segment, but this no longer applies. When comparing the distribution of newspapers it makes sense to compare direct competitors. Changing this word changes the meaning of the sentence, because there are more "quality" British newspapers than there are "broadsheets". We may not like the term, but the marketing industry appears to divide newspapers into three market segments: "popular", "mid-market" and "quality", see [1], [2], [3], [4]. We could put "upmarket", "highbrow" or "serious", but "quality" appears to be the accepted term. Verbcatcher (talk) 01:58, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

I will change the sentence to:

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

This makes it clear that "quality press" is being used as a marketing term, and not as an indication of a lack of quality of other newspapers. We don't need to specify "Sunday newspaper", as this is implied by the title and its circulation is greater than the daily newspapers in this segment. Verbcatcher (talk) 02:08, 10 December 2016 (UTC)