The Sunday People Explained

Sunday People
Type:	Sunday newspaper
Language:	English
Format:	Red top
Foundation:	16 October 1881
Owners:	Reach plc
Political:	Centre-left, Labour Party^[1]
Headquarters:	London
Editor:	Peter Willis^[2]
Circulation:	54,150
Circulation Date:	May 2024
Circulation Ref:	^[3]
Issn:	0307-7292

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as The People on 16 October 1881.^[4]

At one point owned by Odhams Press, The People was acquired along with Odhams by the Mirror Group in 1961, along with the Daily Herald. It is now published by Reach plc,^[5] and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the News of the World, it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544.^[6] By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364^[7] and by August 2020 to 125,216.^[8]

Notable columnists

• Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell on the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the Daily Star Sunday.
• Jimmy Greaves, the former England footballer^[9]
• Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler
• Fred Harrison, an established economics author of 19 books
• Dean Dunham, consumer columnist and leading authority on consumer law.

Editors

• 1881: Sebastian Evans
• 1890: Harry Benjamin Vogel
• 1900: Joseph Hatton
• 1913: John Sansome
• 1922: Robert Donald
• 1924: Hannen Swaffer
• 1925: Harry Ainsworth
• 1957: Stuart Campbell
• 1966: Bob Edwards
• 1972: Geoffrey Pinnington
• 1982: Nicholas Lloyd
• 1984: Richard Stott
• 1985: Ernie Burrington
• 1988: John Blake
• 1989: Wendy Henry
• 1989: Ernie Burrington (acting)
• 1990: Richard Stott
• 1991: Bill Hagerty
• 1992: Bridget Rowe
• 1996: Brendon Parsons
• 1998: Neil Wallis
• 2003: Mark Thomas
• 2008: Lloyd Embley
• 2012: James Scott
• 2014: Alison Phillips
• 2016: Gary Jones
• 2018: Peter Willis
• 2020: Paul Henderson
• 2021: Gemma Aldridge

Notes and References

1. Web site: What the papers say about the 2019 general election . Press Gazette . 9 December 2019 . December 9, 2019.
2. News: Mayhew. Freddie. All change as Daily Express and Daily Star editors leave following Trinity Mirror buyout. Press Gazette. 1 March 2018. 24 April 2018.
3. Web site: Sunday People . . 11 June 2024 . 4 July 2024.
4. Web site: Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century . 16 March 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080224071628/http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html . 24 February 2008.
5. Web site: The People to make six staff redundant . The Guardian . 6 February 2011 . Luft, Oliver . Brook, Stephen . 30 January 2009.
6. News: Sweney, Mark . The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise . The Guardian . 14 February 2014.
7. Web site: Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year . Press Gazette . 28 January 2017.
8. Web site: Audit Bureau of Circulation: Sunday People. ABC. 22 September 2020.
9. Web site: CELEBRITY X FACTOR . Jessica Boulton . Katie Hind . Ben Duffy . 28 March 2010 . People . 1 May 2012.