Query: The Times is a newspaper.

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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 .

Times New Roman <=SEP=> Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931 and designed by Stanley Morison , an advisor to the British branch of the printing equipment company Monotype , in collaboration with Victor Lardent , an artist in the Times ' advertising department . Although no longer used by The Times , Times New Roman is still very common in book and general printing . Through distribution as a standard computer font , it has become one of the most widely used typefaces in history .   Times New Roman 's creation took place through the influence of Stanley Morison of Monotype . Morison was an artistic director at Monotype , historian of printing and informal adviser to The Times , who recommended that they change typeface from the spindly and somewhat dated nineteenth-century Didone typeface previously used to a more robust , solid design , returning to traditions of printing from the eighteenth century and before . This matched a common trend in printing of the period .   Morison proposed an older Monotype typeface named Plantin as a basis for the design , but revisions were made to increase legibility and economy of space . In particular , contrast between strokes was enhanced to give a crisper image . The new font was drawn by Victor Lardent , an artist from the advertising department of The Times , with Morison consulting , before refinement by the Monotype drawing office . The new design made its debut in The Times on 3 October 1932 . After one year , the design was released for commercial sale . The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years , but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch typeface five times from 1972 to 2007 . However , all the new fonts have been variants of the original New Roman typeface . In commercial sale , Times New Roman became extremely successful , becoming Monotype 's best-selling typeface of all in metal type . Although Morison may not have literally drawn the design , his influence on its concept was sufficient that he felt that he could take credit for it as `` my one effort at designing a font '' .   In Times New Roman 's name , Roman is a reference to the regular style of a conventional serif font , or what is called its roman , the first part of the Times New Roman family to be designed . ( The style is called Antiqua in some countries . ) Roman type has some roots in Italian ( and other European ) printing of the late 15th and early 16th centuries , but Times New Roman 's design has no connection to Rome or to the Romans .

Broadsheet <=SEP=> A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages ( typically 22 in ) . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet , sold on the streets and containing various types of material , from ballads to political satire . The first broadsheet newspaper was the Dutch Courante uyt Italien , Duytslandt , & c. published in 1618 .   Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid/compact formats .

News UK <=SEP=> News Corp UK & Ireland Limited ( trading as News UK , formerly News International and NI Group ) , is a British-based American-owned newspaper publisher , and a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. . It is the current publisher of The Times , The Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers and its former publications include the Today , News of the World and The London Paper newspapers . Until June 2002 , it was called News International plc. . On 31 May 2011 the company name was changed from News International Limited to NI Group Limited , and on 26 June 2013 to News UK .   News UK 's main competitor is DMG Media , which is in turn owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust .

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 .

Compact (newspaper) <=SEP=> A compact newspaper is a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format ( slightly taller ) , especially one in the United Kingdom . The term as used for this size ( not to be confused with 108 × 171 mm or 4.25 × 6.75 inches paper sizes ) came into its current use when The Independent began producing a smaller format edition for London 's commuters , designed to be easier to read when using mass transit .   Readers from other parts of the country liked the new format , with the result that The Independent introduced it nationally . The Times and The Scotsman copied the format as The Independent increased sales . All three newspapers are now printed exclusively in compact format following trial periods during which both broadsheet and compact version were produced simultaneously .   The term `` compact '' was coined in the 1970s by the Daily Mail when that newspaper went tabloid , although the Mail now calls itself a tabloid . It is often used to differentiate newspapers with more traditional content from those with a flamboyant or salacious publishing style , even though they may share the same size . The functional opposite of compact is red top , as the nameplates of British sensationalist tabloids tend to be red .

The Sunday Times <=SEP=> The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the `` quality press '' market category . It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd , a subsidiary of News UK , which is in turn owned by News Corp. . Times Newspapers also publishes The Times . The two papers were founded independently and have been under common ownership only since 1966 . They were bought by News International in 1981 .   The Sunday Times occupies a dominant position in the quality Sunday market ; its circulation of just under one million equals that of its main rivals , The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer , combined . While some other national newspapers moved to a tabloid format in the early 2000s , The Sunday Times has retained the larger broadsheet format and has said that it will continue to do so . It sells more than twice as many copies as its sister paper , The Times , which is published Monday to Saturday .   The Sunday Times has acquired a reputation for the strength of its investigative reporting -- much of it by its award-winning Insight team -- and also for its wide-ranging foreign coverage . It has a number of popular writers , columnists and commentators including Jeremy Clarkson and Bryan Appleyard . A. A. Gill was a prominent columnist for many years . It was Britain 's first multi-section newspaper and remains substantially larger than its rivals . A typical edition contains the equivalent of 450 to 500 tabloid pages . Besides the main news section , it has standalone News Review , Business , Sport , Money and Appointments sections -- all broadsheet . There are three magazines ( The Sunday Times Magazine , Culture , and Style ) and two tabloid supplements ( Travel and Home ) . It has a website and separate digital editions configured for both the iOS operating system for the Apple iPad and the Android operating system for such devices as the Google Nexus , all of which offer video clips , extra features and multimedia and other material not found in the printed version of the newspaper .   The paper publishes The Sunday Times Rich List , an annual survey of the wealthiest people in Britain and Ireland , equivalent to the Forbes 400 list in the United States , and a series of league tables with reviews of private British companies , in particular The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 . The paper also produces an annual league table of the best-performing state and independent schools at both junior and senior level across the United Kingdom , entitled Parent Power ( with additional information available online ) , and an annual league table of British universities and a similar one for Irish universities . It publishes The Sunday Times Bestseller List of books in Britain , and a list of the `` 100 Best Companies to Work For '' , focusing on UK companies . It also organises The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival , held annually , and The Sunday Times Festival of Education , which takes place every year at Wellington College .