Query: The Times is a publication.

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The Times <=SEP=> The Times is a British daily ( Monday to Saturday ) national newspaper based in London , England . It began in 1785 under the title , adopting its current name on 1 January 1788 . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times ( founded in 1821 ) are published by Times Newspapers , since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK , itself wholly owned by News Corp. . The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff , were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967 .   In 1959 the historian of journalism Allan Nevins analysed the importance of The Times in shaping the views of events of London 's elite :   For much more than a century The Times has been an integral and important part of the political structure of Great Britain . Its news and its editorial comment have in general been carefully coordinated , and have at most times been handled with an earnest sense of responsibility . While the paper has admitted some trivia to its columns , its whole emphasis has been on important public affairs treated with an eye to the best interests of Britain . To guide this treatment , the editors have for long periods been in close touch with 10 Downing Street .   The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name , lending it to numerous other papers around the world , including The Times of India ( founded in 1838 ) , The Straits Times ( Singapore ) ( 1845 ) , The New York Times ( 1851 ) , The Irish Times ( 1859 ) , Le Temps ( France ) ( 1861-1942 ) , the Cape Times ( South Africa ) ( 1872 ) , the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ) , the Trenton Times ( 1882 ) , The Seattle Times ( 1891 ) , The Manila Times ( 1898 ) , The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ) , El Tiempo ( Colombia ) ( 1911 ) , The Canberra Times ( 1926 ) , Times of Malta ( 1935 ) , and The Washington Times ( 1982 ) . In these countries , the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution .   The Times is the originator of the widely used Times Roman typeface , originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech printing . In November 2006 The Times began printing headlines in a new font , Times Modern . The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years , but switched to compact size in 2004 in an attempt to appeal more to younger readers and commuters using public transport . The Sunday Times remains a broadsheet .   The Times had an average daily circulation of 446,164 in December 2016 ; in the same period , The Sunday Times had an average daily circulation of 792,210 . An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006 . It has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index . A complete historical file of the digitised paper , up to 2010 , is online from Gale Cengage Learning .

Sister paper <=SEP=> A sister paper is one of two or more newspapers which share a common owner , but are published with different content , different names , and sometimes ( but not necessarily ) in different geographical areas . Such an arrangement can offer economies of scale because staff and infrastructure can be shared .   Formerly independent papers can become sister papers , as when the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post were both purchased by News Corporation . Concerns have sometimes been raised about such media consolidation resulting in less diversity of ideas , less competition in the newspaper business , or unfair competition . Conversely , a single newspaper company can start several publications . By doing so , it can serve different markets , or different audiences in the same market , with less overhead than if the publications operated separately .