The Sunday Post

For the Irish newspaper, see The Sunday Business Post.
The Sunday Post

A front cover from 16 November 2008
Type Sunday newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) DC Thomson & Co Ltd.
Founded 1914
Headquarters Dundee, Scotland
Circulation 158,059 (November 2013)
Website www.sundaypost.com

The Sunday Post is a weekly newspaper published in Dundee, Scotland by DC Thomson, and characterised by a mix of news, human interest stories and short features. The paper was founded in 1914 and has a wide circulation across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and parts of Northern England which may at some points in its history have reached three to five million readers.[1]

The current editor is Donald Martin. He is assisted by Iain Harrison as Assistant Editor (News & Sport), Andy Clark as Assistant Editor (Production & Digital), and Dawn Donaghey as Head of Content.[2]

In the 1950s, when the newspaper was confined largely to Scotland, sales of the Sunday Post were so high that it was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the newspaper with the highest per capita readership penetration of anywhere in the world. It has seen a slow decline, in 1999 having circulation of 700,000, dropping to 158,059 in November 2013.[3]

2007 saw DC Thomson launch an advertising drive for The Sunday Post, primarily used on buses, in which the exclamation "Strip Sensation!" is seen by a picture of the folded paper displaying its masthead; next to this is the tagline punning on the exclamation: "A thoroughly decent read".

The newspaper backed a 'No' vote in the referendum on Scottish independence.[4]

In 2014 a weekly magazine supplement was reintroduced. Called IN10, it features entertainment, food, homes, gardens, travel and books as well as The Sunday Post’s man in Hollywood, Ross King.[5]

Regular features

Regular columns include:

Former long-running columns included

Comics

There is a Fun Section featuring comic strips such as:

Comic strips which no longer appear include:

Editors

2001: David Pollington
2010: Donald Martin[9]

See also

References

  1. Kemp, Arnold (3 October 1999). "Jings! Righteous Post on the slide". The Observer. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  2. "New appointments at The Sunday Post". dcthomson.co.uk.
  3. "Sales cheer for Telegraph titles in Scotland". allmediascotland.com.
  4. "Together we can build a fairer, stronger Scotland". Sunday Post. 14 September 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  5. "The Sunday Post launches new weekly magazine". dcthomson.co.uk.
  6. "Your Money / That's Life / The Sunday Post". sundaypost.com.
  7. "TV review: The Great British Sewing Bee". sundaypost.com.
  8. Lew Stringer. "Blimey! It's another blog about comics!: Cor! Wor Nicky joins The Sunday Post". lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk.
  9. "Herald editor Donald Martin joins Sunday Post". BBC News. 22 January 2010.

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