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The Guardian front page on 6 June 2014
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format |
Berliner (2005-2018) Tabloid (2018-) |
| Owner(s) | Guardian Media Group |
| Founder(s) | John Edward Taylor |
| Publisher | Guardian Media Group |
| Editor | Katharine Viner |
| Opinion editor | Mark Henry |
| Founded | 5 May 1821 (as The Manchester Guardian) |
| Political alignment | Centre-left |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Kings Place, London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Circulation | 153,163 (as of December 2016) |
| Sister newspapers |
The Observer The Guardian Weekly |
| ISSN | 0261-3077 |
| OCLC number | 60623878 |
| Website | www |
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper, known from 1821 until 1959 as The Manchester Guardian. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by The Scott Trust Limited. The Trust was created in 1936 "to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference." The Scott Trust became a limited company in 2008, with a constitution to maintain the same protections for The Guardian. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to the benefit of an owner or shareholders.
The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion. The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" as often (but not always) pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning, earnest or politically correct tendencies.
The Guardian is edited by Katharine Viner, who succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. In 2016, The Guardian's print edition had an average daily circulation of roughly 162,000 copies in the country, behind The Daily Telegraph and The Times. The newspaper has an online UK edition as well as two international websites, Guardian Australia (founded in 2013) and Guardian US (founded in 2011). The newspaper's online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world in October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers. Its combined print and online editions reach nearly 9 million British readers.
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