Scotsman.com

The Scotsman

The Scotsman cover (11 May 2011)
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Compact
Owner(s)	Johnston Press
Editor	Frank O'Donnell
Founded	1817
Political alignment	neutral
Headquarters	Orchard Brae House, 30 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh
Circulation	19,449 (February 2017, 88.3% paid)
Sister newspapers	Edinburgh Evening News, Scotland on Sunday
ISSN	0307-5850
OCLC number	614655655
Website	scotsman.com

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website published from Edinburgh. It was a broadsheet until 16 August 2004. The Scotsman Publications Ltd also issues the Edinburgh Evening News. As of February 2017, it had an audited print circulation of 19,449, with a paid-for circulation of 88.3% of this figure, about 14,000. Scotsman.com websites, including the news site, job site, property site, mobile site and others have an average of 97,200 visitors a day.

The Scotsman was launched in 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren in response to the "unblushing subservience" of competing newspapers to the Edinburgh establishment. The paper was pledged to "impartiality, firmness and independence". After the abolition of newspaper stamp tax in Scotland in 1850, The Scotsman was relaunched as a daily newspaper priced at 1d and a circulation of 6,000 copies.

Their premises were originally at 257 High Street on the Royal Mile.

In 1860 they obtained a purpose built office on Cockburn Street in Edinburgh designed in the Scots baronial style by the architects Peddie & Kinnear. This backed onto their original offices on the Royal Mile. The building bears the initials "JR" for John Ritchie the founder of the company. On 19 December 1904, they moved to huge new offices at the top of the street, facing onto North Bridge, designed by Dunn & Findlay (Findlay being the son of the then owner). This huge building had taken three years to build and also had connected printworks on Market Street (now the City Art Centre). The printworks connected below road level direct to Waverley Station in a highly efficient production line.