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| name = The Times
| logo = The Times masthead.svg
| image = Thetimespapercover.jpg
| caption = Front page, 19 October 2015
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Compact (newspaper)|Compact]]
| owners = [[News UK]]
| editor = [[Tony Gallagher (editor)|Tony Gallagher]]
| founded = {{start date and age|df=yes|1785|1|1}} (as ''The Daily Universal Register'')
| headquarters = {{ubl|[[The News Building, London|The News Building]], | 1 London Bridge Place, London}}
| circulation = 365,880
| circulation_date = March 2020
| readership = 740,000 (digital and physical subscribers)
| sister_newspapers = ''[[The Sunday Times]]''
| ISSN = 0140-0460
| oclc = 61565875
| website = {{URL|https://www.thetimes.com/|thetimes.com}}
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'''''The Times''''' is a British [[Newspaper#Daily|daily]] [[Newspaper#National|national newspaper]] based in London. It began in [[1785]] under the title '''''The Daily Universal Register''''', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its [[sister paper]], ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of [[News UK]], in turn wholly owned by [[News Corp]]. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership since 1966.<ref name="newspaper-history"/> It is considered a [[newspaper of record]] in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|date=19 January 2004|title=The UK's 'other paper of record'|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3409185.stm|website=[[BBC News]] |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224043950/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3409185.stm}}</ref>

''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, it has been referred to as {{nowrap|'''''The London Times'''''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adnews.com.au/adnews/london-times-posts-digital-subs-rise |title=London Times posts digital subs rise |publisher=AdNews |date=4 July 2011 |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224044316/https://www.adnews.com.au/adnews/london-times-posts-digital-subs-rise |first=Lucy |last=Barbour}}</ref> or {{nowrap|'''''The Times of London'''''}},<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2008/01/26/times_editorial_page_calls_for_intervention_to_save_winehouse.html |quote=LONDON–The weighty editorial page of The Times of London doesn't make a habit of devoting thought to the travails of pop singers, whose exploits now more than ever keep the red-top British tabloids afroth. |first=Mitch |last=Potter |date=26 January 2008 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224045440/https://www.thestar.com/news/times-editorial-page-calls-for-intervention-to-save-winehouse/article_5a1aaf95-3634-5718-a7c6-f6a4043728e0.html |title=Times' editorial page calls for intervention to save Winehouse|work=Toronto Star |access-date=8 April 2014}}</ref> although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution.

''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622.<ref name="PG"/> They also have 640,000 digital-only paid subscribers as of June 2025, with the number rising to 740,000 when including physical circulation paid subscribers. In the year June 2024 to June 2025, Times Media, the parent company of The Times and Sunday Times newspapers saw [[pre-tax profit]]s rise +13% to £69.2 million ($92.7 million), [[Operating Profit|operating profits]] of £73.3 million ($102.2 million) and [[revenue]]s rising +2% to £390.7 million ($523.5 million).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Richard |date=5 April 2026 |title=Profits at Times Media rise 13% as digital subscriptions grow |url=https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/times-media-annual-results-2025-v7g9zws7j |access-date=5 April 2026 |website=The Times | url-access=subscription}}</ref> An American edition of ''The Times'' has been published since 6 June 2006 with it mainly being circulated in the [[New York City]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]] [[Metropolitan area|metro areas]].<ref name = "Times of London">{{cite news |date =27 May 2006 |last = Pfanner |first = Eric |title = Times of London to Print Daily U.S. Edition |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/business/media/27paper.html |url-access=registration |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224044931/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/business/media/27paper.html |url-status=live |newspaper = The New York Times |access-date = 4 November 2008 }}</ref> A complete historical file of the digitised paper, up to 2019, is available online from [[Gale (publisher)|Gale Cengage]] Learning.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gale.com/intl/c/the-times-digital-archive |title=The Times Digital Archive |publisher=Gale Cengage Learning |access-date=29 November 2021 |archive-date=30 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130145604/https://www.gale.com/intl/c/the-times-digital-archive |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bingham |first=Adrian |date=1 August 2013 |title=The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2006 (Gale Cengage) |url=https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/128/533/1037/348684 |journal=The English Historical Review |language=en |volume=128 |issue=533 |pages=1037–1040 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cet144 |issn=1477-4534|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be [[Centre-right politics|centre-right]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Christina Schaeffner |title=Political Discourse, Media and Translation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6BIaBwAAQBAJ&dq=centre-right+liberal+FT&pg=PA35 |quote= With regard to political affiliation ''The Daily Telegraph'' is a right-wing paper, ''The Times'' centre-right, ''The Financial Times'' centre-right and liberal, and ''The Guardian'' centre-left. |date=2009 |page=35 |publisher=[[Cambridge Scholars Publishing]] |isbn=9781443817936 }}</ref> ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' launched their own radio station, [[Times Radio]], in 2020; its shows cover news and politics, both nationally and internationally, and had an average weekly reach of 604,000 listeners at the end of 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=Bron |date=6 February 2025 |title=RAJARs Q4 2024: Times Radio grows amid declines at Talk and GB News |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/rajars-q4-2024-times-radio-talk-gb-news/ |access-date=29 May 2025 |website=Press Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Phillips |first=Charlotte |date=6 February 2025 |title=News Broadcasting celebrates another set of outstanding RAJAR results |url=https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/news-broadcasting-celebrates-another-set-of-outstanding-rajar-results/ |access-date=29 May 2025 |website=News UK |language=en}}</ref>

==History==
===1785 to 1890=== <!-- [[Logography (printing)]] redirects here. If you rename the section, please also update the redirect. -->
[[File:Times 1788.12.04.jpg|thumb|Front page of ''The Times'' from 4 December 1788]]
''The Times'' was founded by [[John Walter (publisher)|John Walter]] (1738–1812) on 1 January 1785 as ''The Daily Universal Register,''<ref name=":0" /> with Walter in the role of editor.<ref name=":2">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/services/press_office/article2085354.ece|title=The Times Editors|last=Lewis|first=Leo|date=16 July 2011|work=The Times|access-date=2 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716130656/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/services/press_office/article2085354.ece|archive-date=16 July 2011|location=London}}</ref> Walter had lost his job by the end of 1784 after the insurance company for which he worked went bankrupt due to losses from a [[Colony of Jamaica|Jamaican]] hurricane. Unemployed, Walter began a new business venture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spartacus-educational.com/Jwalter1.htm|title=John Walter|last=Simkin|first=John|date=September 1997|website=Spartacus Educational|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=26 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626115959/https://spartacus-educational.com/Jwalter1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Walter, John}}</ref> At that time, Henry Johnson invented '''logography''', a typesetting system that promised to be faster and more accurate by including [[Sort (typesetting)|sorts]] for common words and groups of letters (although three years later, it was proved less efficient than advertised); Walter bought the patent and opened a printing house to produce books by this method.<ref name=":1" /> The first publication of ''The Daily Universal Register'' was on 1 January 1785. Walter changed the title after 940 editions on 1 January 1788 to ''The Times''.<ref name=":0">{{cite encyclopedia |title=The Times |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Times |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=11 September 2016 |archive-date=10 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010221301/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Times |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1" /> In 1803 Walter handed ownership and editorship to [[John Walter (editor, born 1776)|his son John]].<ref name=":1" /> The senior Walter's pioneering efforts to obtain continental news, especially from France, helped to build the paper's reputation among policymakers and financiers,<ref>{{cite web |title=Times, The – Extracts from – Epsom & Ewell History Explorer |url=https://eehe.org.uk/?p=62078 |website=eehe.org.uk |access-date=11 October 2021 |archive-date=4 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704001708/https://eehe.org.uk/?p=62078 |url-status=live }}</ref> in spite of a sixteen-month incarceration in [[Newgate Prison]] for [[defamation|libel]]s printed in ''The Times''.<ref name=":1" />

''The Times'' used contributions from significant figures in the fields of politics, science, literature, and the arts to build its reputation. For much of its early life, the profits of ''The Times'' were very large and the competition minimal, so it could pay far better than its rivals for information or writers. Beginning in 1814, the paper was printed on the new steam-driven [[cylinder press]] developed by [[Friedrich Koenig]] (1774–1833).<ref>{{cite book|title=American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices: An Historical Reader for Students and Professionals|first1 = W. David |last1 = Sloan |first2 = Lisa Mullikin |last2 = Parcell |isbn=0-7864-1371-9|year=2002|publisher=McFarland & Co. |quote=Koenig had plans to develop a double-feeding printing machine that would increase production, and the publisher of The Times in London ordered two of the double- feeder machines to be built.|url-access=registration |url = https://archive.org/details/americanjournali0000unse_r6h5 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ouBxwQElvVQC&pg=PA106|title=A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet|last1=Briggs|first1=Asa|last2=Burke|first2=Peter|date=2009|publisher=Polity|isbn=978-0-7456-4495-0|pages=106|language=en}}</ref> In 1815, ''The Times'' had a circulation of 5,000.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/20/business/earlier-media-achieved-critical-mass-printing-press-yelling-stop-presses-didn-t.html |title=How the Earlier Media Achieved Critical Mass |first=D. J. R. |last=Bruckner |date=20 November 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |quote=the circulation of The Times rose from 5,000 in 1815 to 50,000 in the 1850s. |access-date=18 February 2017 |archive-date=1 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701112056/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/20/business/earlier-media-achieved-critical-mass-printing-press-yelling-stop-presses-didn-t.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It had grown to 9,800 by 1837 and was 51,200 in 1854.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vann |first1=J. Don |last2=VanArsdel |first2=Rosemary T. |title=Victorian Periodicals: A guide to research |date=1978 |publisher=The Modern Language Association of America |location=New York |isbn=0-87352-257-5 |page=173 |edition=First}}</ref>

[[Thomas Barnes (journalist)|Thomas Barnes]] was appointed general editor in 1817. In the same year, the paper's printer, James Lawson, died and passed the business onto his son, John Joseph Lawson (1802–1852). Under the editorship of Barnes and his successor in 1841, [[John Thadeus Delane]], the influence of ''The Times'' rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the [[City of London]]. Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling were two noted journalists, and gained for ''The Times'' the pompous/satirical nickname 'The Thunderer' (from "We thundered out the other day an article on social and political reform"). The increased circulation and influence of the paper were based in part to its early adoption of the steam-driven rotary printing press. Distribution via [[Rail transport|steam trains]] to rapidly growing concentrations of urban populations helped ensure the profitability of the paper and its growing influence.<ref>Lomas, Claire. "[http://journalism.winchester.ac.uk/?page=353 The Steam Driven Rotary Press, The Times and the Empire] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317185723/http://journalism.winchester.ac.uk/?page=353 |date=17 March 2011 }}"</ref>

[[File:Sir John Everett Millais - Peace Concluded - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|A wounded British officer reading ''The Times's'' report of the end of the [[Crimean War]], in [[John Everett Millais]]' painting ''[[Peace Concluded]]'']]
''The Times'' was one of the first newspapers to send [[war correspondent]]s to cover particular conflicts. [[William Howard Russell]], the paper's correspondent with the army in the [[Crimean War]], was immensely influential with his dispatches back to England.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXu6XL4g4agC&pg=PA2|title=The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq|last=Knightley|first=Phillip|date=5 October 2004|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8030-8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=January 1896|title=War Correspondents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aw0HAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA129|journal=The Edinburgh Review|volume=183|issue=375|pages=129}}</ref>

===1890 to 1981===
''The Times'' faced financial failure in 1890 under [[Arthur Fraser Walter]], but it was rescued by an energetic editor, [[Charles Frederic Moberly Bell]]. During his tenure (1890–1911), ''The Times'' became associated with selling the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' using aggressive American marketing methods introduced by [[Horace Everett Hooper]] and his advertising executive, Henry Haxton. Due to legal fights between the ''Britannica's'' two owners, Hooper and [[Walter Montgomery Jackson]], ''The Times'' severed its connection in 1908 and was bought by the pioneering newspaper magnate [[Alfred Harmsworth]] (later Lord Northcliffe).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Charles-William-Harmsworth-Viscount-Northcliffe-of-Saint-Peter|title=Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe {{!}} British publisher|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=13 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313064732/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Charles-William-Harmsworth-Viscount-Northcliffe-of-Saint-Peter|url-status=live}}</ref>

In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914, [[Wickham Steed]], the ''Times's'' Chief Editor, argued that the [[British Empire]] should enter the [[Great War]].<ref>Ferguson, Niall (1999). ''The Pity of War'' London: Basic Books. p. 217. {{ISBN|978-0-465-05711-5}}</ref> On 8 May 1920, also under the editorship of [[Wickham Steed|Steed]], ''The Times'', in an editorial, endorsed the antisemitic fabrication ''[[The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion]]'' as a genuine document, and called Jews the world's greatest danger. In the leader entitled "The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry", Steed wrote about ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'': <blockquote>"What are these 'Protocols'? Are they authentic? If so, what malevolent assembly concocted these plans and gloated over their exposition? Are they forgery? If so, whence comes the uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in part fulfilled, in part so far gone in the way of fulfillment?"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Friedländer |first=Saul |title=Nazi Germany and the Jews |date=1997 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-019042-2 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=95}}</ref></blockquote> The following year, when [[Philip Graves]], ''The Times''' correspondent for [[Constantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul]]), exposed ''The Protocols'' as a forgery,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ballylickeymanorhouse.com/history/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701191603/http://www.ballylickeymanorhouse.com/history/|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 July 2010| title=The Graves family in Ireland |publisher=Ballylickey Manor House|date=1 July 2010|access-date=28 December 2019}}</ref> ''The Times'' retracted the editorial of the previous year.

In 1922 [[John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever|John Jacob Astor]], son of the [[William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor|1st Viscount Astor]], bought ''The Times'' from the [[Alfred Harmsworth|Northcliffe estate]]. The paper gained a measure of notoriety in the 1930s with its advocacy of German [[appeasement]]; the editor [[Geoffrey Dawson]] was closely allied with government supporters of appeasement, most notably [[Neville Chamberlain]]. Candid news reports by [[Norman Ebbutt|Norman Ebbut]] from Berlin that warned of Nazi warmongering were rewritten in London to support the appeasement policy.<ref>Gordon Martel, ed. ''The Times and Appeasement: The Journals of A L Kennedy, 1932–1939'' (2000).</ref><ref>Frank McDonough,  "The Times, Norman Ebbut and the Nazis, 1927–37." Journal of Contemporary History 27.3 (1992): 407–424.</ref>

[[Kim Philby]], a double agent with primary allegiance to the [[Soviet Union]], was a correspondent for the newspaper in [[Second Spanish Republic|Spain]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]] of the late 1930s. Philby was admired for his courage in obtaining high-quality reporting from the front lines of the bloody conflict. He later joined British Military Intelligence ([[MI6]]) during the Second World War, was promoted into senior positions after the war ended, and defected to the Soviet Union when discovery was inevitable in 1963.<ref>{{cite book |title= Treason in the blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the spy case of the century |first=Anthony |last=Cave Brown |year=1995 |publisher=Robert Hale |location =London |isbn=978-0-7090-5582-2}}</ref>

[[File:Frontpage weekly magazine "The Times" May 15 1940, With headline "The Old prime minister and the new".jpg|thumb|Frontpage weekly magazine ''The Times'', 15 May 1940, with headline: "The old prime minister and the new".]]
Between 1941 and 1946, the left-wing British historian [[E. H. Carr]] was assistant editor. Carr was well known for the strongly pro-Soviet tone of his editorials.<ref>Beloff, Max. "The Dangers of Prophecy" pages 8–10 from ''History Today'', Volume 42, Issue # 9, September 1992 page 9</ref> In December 1944, when fighting broke out in [[Athens]] between the Greek Communist [[Greek People's Liberation Army|ELAS]] and the [[British Army]], Carr in a ''Times'' [[Leading article|leader]] sided with the Communists, leading [[Winston Churchill]] to condemn him and the article in a speech to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]].<ref>Davies, Robert William. "Edward Hallett Carr, 1892–1982" pages 473–511 from ''Proceedings of the British Academy'', Volume 69, 1983 page 489</ref> As a result of Carr's editorial, ''The Times'' became popularly known during that stage of the Second World War as "the [[Threepence (British coin)|threepenny]] ''[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Daily Worker]]''" (the price of the Communist Party's ''Daily Worker'' being one penny).<ref>Haslam, Jonathan. "We Need a Faith: E.H. Carr, 1892–1982" pages 36–39 from ''History Today'', Volume 33, August 1983 page 37</ref>

[[File:Roy Thomson Cropped.jpg|thumb|left|[[Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet|Roy Thomson]]]]
On 3 May 1966 it resumed printing news on the front page; previously, the front page had been given over to small advertisements, usually of interest to the moneyed classes in British society. Also in 1966, the [[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom|Royal Arms]], which had been a feature of the newspaper's masthead since its inception, was abandoned.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hasler|first=Charles|title=The Royal Arms&nbsp;— Its Graphic And Decorative Development|publisher=Jupiter Books|date=1980|page=[https://archive.org/details/royalarmsitsgrap0000hasl/page/302 302]|isbn=978-0904041200|url=https://archive.org/details/royalarmsitsgrap0000hasl/page/302}}</ref>{{Sfn|Stewart|2005|p=63}} In the same year, members of the [[Astor family]] sold the paper to the Canadian publishing magnate [[Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet|Roy Thomson]].<ref name="q915">{{cite book | last=Ellis | first=Gavin | title=Trust Ownership and the Future of News: Media Moguls and White Knights | publisher=Springer | date=2014-06-29 | isbn=978-1-137-36944-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTbtAwAAQBAJ&dq=ownership+of+the+times+Astor+family&pg=PT123 | access-date=2025-09-08}}</ref> His [[Thomson Corporation]] brought it under the same ownership as ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' to form [[News UK#Times Newspapers Ltd|Times Newspapers Limited]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Rory |last=Carruthers |title=Company history |url=https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/company-history.html |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224042601/https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/company-history.html |website=www.thomsonreuters.com |access-date=11 October 2021}}</ref>

An industrial dispute prompted the management to shut down the paper for nearly a year, from 1 December 1978 to 12 November 1979.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/13/newsid_2539000/2539795.stm |date=13 November 1979 |title=1979: Times returns after year-long dispute|work=[[BBC News|BBC]] On This Day |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224042309/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/13/newsid_2539000/2539795.stm}}</ref>

The Thomson Corporation management was struggling to run the business due to the [[1979 energy crisis]] and union demands. Management sought a buyer who was in a position to guarantee the survival of both titles, had the resources, and was committed to funding the introduction of modern printing methods.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}

Several suitors appeared, including [[Robert Maxwell]], [[Tiny Rowland]] and [[Lord Rothermere]]; however, only one buyer was in a position to meet the full Thomson remit: the Australian business magnate [[Rupert Murdoch]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About us |url=https://www.thetimes.com/static/about-us/ |quote=The Times and The Sunday Times were first held under common ownership by Lord Thomson in 1966 as Times Media Limited and were bought by Rupert Murdoch in 1981. Times Media is now part of News UK. Both papers introduced digital subscriptions in 2010 to help ensure a sustainable future for their journalism. |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224040515/https://www.thetimes.com/static/about-us/ |url-status=live |location=London |website=thetimes.com |access-date=11 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> [[Robert Holmes à Court]], another Australian magnate, had previously tried to buy ''The Times'' in 1980.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McIlwraith |first1=John |title=Holmes à Court, Michael Robert (1937–1990) |chapter=Michael Robert Holmes à Court (1937–1990) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/holmes-a-court-michael-robert-12647 |via=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |access-date=11 October 2021 |language=en |orig-year=2007 |volume=17 |year=2007 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224035849/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/holmes-a-court-michael-robert-12647}}</ref>

===From 1981===
In 1981 ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were bought from Thomson by Murdoch's [[News UK|News International]].<ref name = acquisition>{{cite book|title= The History of the Times: The Murdoch years, 1981–2002|first1=Graham|last1=Stewart|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2005|isbn=0-00-718438-7| page=45|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=eZZZAAAAMAAJ&q=The+History+of+the+Times:+The+Murdoch+years,+1981-2002}}</ref> The acquisition followed three weeks of intensive bargaining with the unions by the company negotiators John Collier and [[Bill O'Neill (media)|Bill O'Neill]]. Murdoch gave legal undertakings to maintain separate journalism resources for the two titles.<ref name=BBC2019-04-11>{{cite news | title = Murdoch wins preliminary backing to merge his Times titles | work = [[BBC News Online]] | date = 11 April 2019 | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47895062 | access-date = 12 April 2019 | archive-date = 11 April 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411220201/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47895062 | url-status = live }}</ref> The [[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom|Royal Arms]] were reintroduced to the masthead at about this time, but whereas previously it had been that of the reigning monarch, it would now be that of the [[House of Hanover]], who were on the throne when the newspaper was founded.{{Sfn|Stewart|2005|p=63}}

After 14 years as editor, [[William Rees-Mogg]] resigned upon completion of the change of ownership.<ref name = acquisition/> Murdoch began to make his mark on the paper by appointing [[Harold Evans]] as his replacement.<ref name="Stewart, p 51">Stewart, p. 51</ref> One of his most important changes was the introduction of new technology and efficiency measures. Between March 1981 and May 1982, following agreement with print unions, the hot-metal [[Linotype machine|Linotype]] printing process used to print ''The Times'' since the 19th century was phased out and replaced by computer input and photocomposition. ''The Times'' and the ''Sunday Times'' were able to reduce their print room staff by half as a result.<!--from 375 to 186--> However, direct input of text by journalists ("single-stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the [[Wapping dispute]] of 1986, when ''The Times'' moved from New [[Printing House Square]] in Gray's Inn Road (near [[Fleet Street]]) to new offices in [[Wapping]].<ref>Hamilton, Alan. "The Times bids farewell to old technology". ''The Times'', 1 May 1982, p. 2, col. C.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Good Times, Bad Times|last=Evans|first=Harold|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=1984|isbn=978-0-297-78295-7|location=London|pages= 182}}</ref>

[[Robert Fisk]],<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert |last=Fisk|year=2005|title=The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East|publisher=Fourth Estate |location =London|pages=329–334|isbn=1-84115-007-X}}</ref> seven times British International Journalist of the Year,<ref>{{cite news|date=3 December 2005|title=Viewpoint: UK war reporter Robert Fisk|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4393358.stm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051208212035/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4393358.stm|archive-date=8 December 2005|work=BBC News}}</ref> resigned as foreign correspondent in 1988 over what he saw as "political censorship" of his article on the shooting down of [[Iran Air Flight 655]] in July 1988. He wrote in detail about his reasons for resigning from the paper due to meddling with his stories, and the paper's pro-Israel stance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 July 2011 |title=Robert Fisk: Why I had to leave The Times |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/robert-fisk-why-i-had-to-leave-the-times-2311569.html |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>

In June 1990 ''The Times'' ceased its policy of using courtesy titles ("Mr", "Mrs" or "Miss" prefixes) for living persons before full names on the first reference, but it continues to use them before surnames on subsequent references. In 1992 it accepted the use of "Ms" for unmarried women "if they express a preference."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MOykn3dMaJIC&q=%22the+times+of+london%22+%22courtesy+titles%22&pg=PA188|title=Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger|last=Block|first=Mervin|date=1997|publisher=Bonus Books, Inc.|isbn=978-1-56625-084-9|language=en}}</ref>

In November 2003 News International began producing the newspaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2003/11/the-times-has-gone-tabloid-where-will-the-broadsheet-revolution-end/|title=The Times has gone tabloid: where will the broadsheet revolution end?|last=Glover|first=Stephen|date=29 November 2003|website=The Spectator|language=en-US|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229070529/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2003/11/the-times-has-gone-tabloid-where-will-the-broadsheet-revolution-end/|url-status=live}}</ref> Over the next year, the broadsheet edition was withdrawn from Northern Ireland, Scotland and the English [[West Country]]. Since 1 November 2004 the paper has been printed solely in tabloid format.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/why-the-times-had-to-change-531639.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220620/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/why-the-times-had-to-change-531639.html |archive-date=20 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Why the Times had to change|last=Snoddy|first=Raymond|date=1 November 2004|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=29 December 2019}}</ref>

On 6 June 2005 ''The Times'' redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. According to its [[leading article]] "From Our Own Correspondents", the reason for the removal of full postal addresses was to fit more letters onto the page.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/from-our-own-correspondents-st83m3tm08m|title=From our own correspondents|date=6 June 2005|work=The Times|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228223304/https://www.thetimes.com/article/from-our-own-correspondents-st83m3tm08m|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a 2007 meeting with the [[House of Lords]] Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, Murdoch stated that the law and the independent board prevented him from exercising editorial control.<ref name=Parliament070917>{{cite conference|title=Minute of the meeting with Mr Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation |book-title=Inquiry into Media Ownership and the News |page=10 |publisher=House of Commons Select Committee on Communications |date=17 September 2007 |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/us.doc |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201082014/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/us.doc |archive-date=1 December 2007 }}
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In May 2008 printing of ''The Times'' switched from Wapping to new plants at [[Waltham Cross]] in [[Hertfordshire]], and [[Merseyside]] and [[Glasgow]], enabling the paper to be produced with full colour on every page for the first time.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/08/newsinternational.rupertmurdoch|title=Fortress Wapping to Waltham Cross as News International moves its presses|last=Tryhorn|first=Chris|date=8 October 2004|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228224254/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/08/newsinternational.rupertmurdoch|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 26 July 2012, to coincide with the official start of the [[London 2012 Olympics]] and the issuing of a series of souvenir front covers, ''The Times'' added the suffix "of London" to its masthead.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

In March 2016 the paper dropped its rolling digital coverage for a series of "editions" of the paper at 9am, midday, and 5pm on weekdays.<ref name="Rawlinson 2016">{{cite web | last=Rawlinson | first=Kevin | title=The Times drops online rolling news for four editions a day | website=The Guardian | date=30 March 2016 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/30/times-rolling-editions-website-sunday-times-apps | access-date=16 April 2018 | archive-date=27 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327212454/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/30/times-rolling-editions-website-sunday-times-apps | url-status=live }}</ref> The change also saw a redesign of the paper's app for smartphones and tablets.<ref name="News UK 2016">{{cite news | title=The Times and The Sunday Times launch new website and apps | website=News UK | date=30 March 2016 | url=https://www.news.co.uk/2016/03/the-times-and-the-sunday-times-launch-new-website-and-smartphone-apps/ | access-date=16 April 2018 | archive-date=27 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327213136/https://www.news.co.uk/2016/03/the-times-and-the-sunday-times-launch-new-website-and-smartphone-apps/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

In April 2018 the [[Independent Press Standards Organisation]] (IPSO) upheld a complaint against ''The Times'' for its report of a court hearing in a [[Tower Hamlets]] fostering case.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=07966-19|title=07966-19 Water UK v The Times|website=www.ipso.co.uk |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224045459/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=07966-19}}</ref>

In April 2019 culture secretary [[Jeremy Wright]] said he was minded to allow a request by [[News UK]] to relax the legal undertakings given in 1981 to maintain separate journalism resources for ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times''.<ref name=BBC2019-04-11 /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wright |first1=Jeremy |title=Media Matters:Written statement – HCWS1677 |url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-06-27/HCWS1677/ |website=www.parliament.uk |access-date=28 June 2019 |archive-date=9 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309160047/https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-06-27/HCWS1677/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019 IPSO upheld complaints against ''The Times'' over their article "GPS data shows container visited trafficking hotspot",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=08527-19|title=08527-19 O'Nion v The Times|publisher=IPSO|access-date=23 June 2020|archive-date=23 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623043452/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=08527-19|url-status=live}}</ref> and for three articles as part of a series on pollution in Britain's waterways: "No river safe for bathing", "Filthy Business" and "Behind the story".<ref name="auto1"/> IPSO also upheld complaints in 2019 against articles headlined "Funding secret of scientists against hunt trophy ban,"<ref>{{cite web |title=08417-19 Cooney et al. v The Times |url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=08417-19 |publisher=IPSO |access-date=11 October 2021 |archive-date=2 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002230133/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=08417-19 |url-status=live }}</ref> and "Britons lose out to rush of foreign medical students."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=04817-19|title=04817-19 Wilson v Sunday Times|publisher=IPSO|access-date=23 June 2020|archive-date=25 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625102124/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=04817-19|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2019 ''The Times'' published an article about Imam Abdullah Patel that wrongly claimed Patel had blamed Israel for the 2003 murder of a British police officer by a terror suspect in Manchester. The story also wrongly claimed that Patel ran a primary school that had been criticised by [[Ofsted]] for segregating parents at events, which Ofsted said was contrary to "British democratic principles". ''The Times'' settled Patel's defamation claim by issuing an apology and offering to pay damages and legal costs. Patel's solicitor, Zillur Rahman, said the case "highlights the shocking level of journalism to which the Muslim community are often subject".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Charlotte |first1=Tobitt |title=Times apologises and pays libel damages to imam who appeared on BBC debate |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-apologises-and-pays-libel-damages-to-imam-who-appeared-on-bbc-debate/ |access-date=14 December 2020 |work=Press Gazette |date=12 December 2019 |archive-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120004736/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-apologises-and-pays-libel-damages-to-imam-who-appeared-on-bbc-debate/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019 ''The Times'' published an article titled "Female Circumcision is like clipping a nail, claimed speaker". The article featured a photo of [[Sultan Choudhury]] beside the headline, leading some readers to incorrectly infer that Choudhury had made the comment. Choudhury lodged a complaint with IPSO and sued ''The Times'' for libel. In 2020 ''The Times'' issued an apology, amended its article, and agreed to pay Choudhury damages and legal costs. Choudhury's solicitor, Nishtar Saleem, said, "This is another example of irresponsible journalism. Publishing sensational excerpts on a 'free site' while concealing the full article behind a paywall is a dangerous game".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/the-times-publishes-apology-to-sultan-choudhury-obe-15658 |title=The Times publishes apology to Sultan Choudhury OBE |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224052631/https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/the-times-publishes-apology-to-sultan-choudhury-obe-15658 |url-status=live |date=30 July 2020 |work=InPublishing |location=Eynsford, Kent, England}}</ref>

In December 2020 the human rights advocacy group [[Cage (organisation)|Cage]] and [[Moazzam Begg]], a former prisoner at [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]], received damages of £30,000 plus costs in a libel case they had brought against ''The Times''. In June 2020 a report in ''The Times'' suggested that Cage and Begg were supporting a man who had been arrested in relation to a knife attack in [[Reading, Berkshire]], in which three men were murdered. ''The Times'' report also suggested that Cage and Begg were excusing the actions of the accused man by mentioning mistakes made by the police and others. In addition to paying damages, ''The Times'' printed an apology. Cage stated that the damages amount would be used to "expose state-sponsored Islamophobia and those complicit with it in the press. ... The Murdoch press empire has actively supported xenophobic elements and undermined principles of open society and accountability. ... We will continue to shine a light on war criminals and torture apologists and press barons who fan the flames of hate".<ref name="ms041220">{{cite news |last1=Sabin |first1=Lamiat |title=The Times pays £30k damages over article defaming Muslim activists |url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/the-times-pays-30k-damages-over-article-defaming-muslim-activists |access-date=8 December 2020 |work=Morning Star |date=4 December 2020 |language=en |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224054415/https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/the-times-pays-30k-damages-over-article-defaming-muslim-activists}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Harroon |last=Siddique |title=Times pays damages to advocacy group falsely linked to Reading killer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/04/times-pays-damages-to-advocacy-group-cage-over-false-claim-of-link-to-killer |access-date=7 June 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=4 December 2020 |language=en |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224054606/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/04/times-pays-damages-to-advocacy-group-cage-over-false-claim-of-link-to-killer |url-status=live}}</ref>

''The Times'' was forced to correct a false article in January 2025 about [[electric vehicle]] (EV) sales, following successful complaint to IPSO.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mortimer |first=Josiah |date=13 January 2025 |title=The Times Is Forced to Correct a Misleading Article Claiming Electric Vehicle Demand Is Falling When It's Actually Rising |url=https://bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/the-times-was-forced-to-correct-a-misleading-article-claiming-electric-vehicle-demand-is-falling-when-its-actually-rising/ |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=Byline Times |language=en-GB}}</ref>

{{Anchor|De Blasio}}On 28 October 2025 ''The Times'' published an article falsely claiming to feature quotes from the former mayor of New York City [[Bill de Blasio]] regarding the mayoral candidate [[Zohran Mamdani]]; the article was deleted two hours after publication.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fitzsimmons |first=Emma |date=October 28, 2025 |title=De Blasio Impersonator Tricks British Newspaper With Fake Criticism of Mamdani |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-mamdani-agenda.html |access-date=30 October 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en}}</ref> The actual interviewee was later revealed to be Bill DeBlasio, a wine importer living in [[Huntington Station, New York]]. DeBlasio used [[ChatGPT]] to generate a response to the reporter's initial email, and received an interview through his home's [[Ring (company)|Ring]] doorbell.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ruberry |first1=Brendan |last2=Tani |first2=Max |date=29 October 2025 |title=Exclusive: British newspaper spoke to the wrong DeBlasio, not an 'imposter' |url=https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper-spoke-to-the-wrong-deblasio-not-an-imposter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251030065240/https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper-spoke-to-the-wrong-deblasio-not-an-imposter |archive-date=30 October 2025 |access-date=30 October 2025 |work=[[Semafor (website)|Semafor]] |language=en}}</ref> On 30 October ''[[The Nation]]'' magazine published an article by the former mayor de Blasio about the incident, stating that he gave the reporter some credit for apologising to him directly, but expressing concern about the state of journalism "in a hyper-partisan era when standards of objectivity and decency are decaying week by week".<ref name="tn-30oct2025">{{cite news |author1=Bill de Blasio |author1-link=Bill de Blasio |title=The Real Bill de Blasio Has Something to Say |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-de-blasio-times-journalism/ |access-date=30 October 2025 |work=[[The Nation]] |date=30 October 2025}}</ref>

==== Amnesty International report ====
In May 2026, a report by [[Amnesty International]] found that ''The Times'' – along with other major dailies, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', and [[The Sun (United Kingdom)|''The Sun'']] –  had significantly amplified the [[Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom|British anti-transgender movement]]. Coverage from late-2010s onwards became increasingly negative, depicting transgender people as "involved in controversy, demanding or aggressive and with a propensity to be offended", their analysis found. According to Amnesty's research, transgender voices were largely absent from the reporting, while the impact of anti-trans figures and groups was magnified. The report concludes that a concerted, years-long campaign was waged to influence the media, in order to manufacture anti-transgender sentiment.<ref>{{Cite report |title=Like a snowball: The growth and impact of the gender critical movement in the UK |url=https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf |publisher=Amnesty International}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-05-21 |title=Anti trans organisations exerting powerful influence over media and politics, new analysis reveals |url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/new-uk-analysis-reveals--anti-trans-influence-media-politics/ |access-date=2026-05-22 |website=Amnesty International UK |language=en-gb}}</ref>

==Content==
''The Times'' features news for the first half of the paper; the Opinion/Comment section begins after the first news section, with world news normally following this. The Register, which contains obituaries, a Court & Social section, and related material, follows the business pages on the centre spread. The sports section is at the end of the main paper.

===''Times2''===
''The Times''{{'}} main supplement, every day, is ''times2'', featuring various columns.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BcZwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117|title=Literary Research and British Postmodernism: Strategies and Sources|last1=McCafferty|first1=Bridgit|last2=Hartsell-Gundy|first2=Arianne|date=2 September 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-5417-6|pages=117|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131721/https://books.google.com/books?id=BcZwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cSOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|title=Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear|last=Guldberg|first=Helene|date=7 May 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-22626-8|pages=17|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131625/https://books.google.com/books?id=_cSOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> It was discontinued in early March 2010,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2010/feb/17/times-set-axe-times2 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224053122/https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2010/feb/17/times-set-axe-times2|title=Times set to axe Times2 supplement as staff await news of job cuts|last=Brook|first=Stephen|date=17 February 2010|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/times2-is-axed-five-years-after-launch/|title=Times2 is axed five years after launch|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|date=2 March 2010|website=pressgazette.co.uk|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=24 February 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20240224050212/https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/times2-is-axed-five-years-after-launch/}}</ref> but reintroduced on 12 October 2010 after the discontinuation was poorly received.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/11/times2-the-times|title=Times revives Times2 supplement|last=Plunkett|first=John|date=11 October 2010|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224052951/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/11/times2-the-times |url-status=live}}</ref> Its regular features include a puzzles section called ''Mind Games''. Its previous incarnation began on 5 September 2005, before which it was called ''T2'' and previously ''Times 2''.<ref name="auto"/> The supplement contains arts and lifestyle features, television and radio listings, and theatre reviews. ''The Times'' employs [[Richard Morrison (music critic)|Richard Morrison]] as its classical music critic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/sites/competition/judges/grandfinal/richard_morrison.shtml|title=BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=28 December 2019 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224053512/https://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/sites/competition/judges/grandfinal/richard_morrison.shtml}}</ref>

===''The Game''===
''The Game'' is included in the newspaper on Mondays, and details all the weekend's football activity ([[Premier League]] and [[Football League Championship]], [[Football League One|League One]] and [[Football League Two|League Two]].) The Scottish edition of ''The Game'' also includes results and analysis from [[Scottish Premier League]] games. During the [[FIFA World Cup]] and [[UEFA European Championship]], there is a daily supplement of ''The Game''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newscommercial.co.uk/brands/the-times/the-game|title=The Game – The Times|website=newscommercial.co.uk|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=7 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307131754/https://newscommercial.co.uk/brands/the-times/the-game|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Saturday supplements===
The Saturday edition of ''The Times'' contains a variety of supplements.

Beginning on 5 July 2003 (issue 67807<ref name=":3">{{Cite magazine |date=5–11 July 2003 |title=New! Launch Issue |magazine=TheKnowledge |page=1}} Located in: {{Cite news |date=5 July 2003 |title=The Knowledge |work=The Times |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=67807 |id={{Gale|UCTVXJ119947492}}}}</ref>) and ending after 17 January 2009 (issue 69535<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 January 2009 |title=Best of Saturday Times : TheKnowledge |work=The Times |page=2 |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=69535 |id={{Gale|IF0503958245}}}}</ref>), Saturday issues of ''The Times'' came with a weekly magazine called ''TheKnowledge'' containing [[Listings magazine|listings]] for the upcoming week, from that Saturday to the next Friday, compiled by PA Arts & Leisure (part of [[PA Media|Press Association Ltd]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Info |url=http://www.pa.press.net/info/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970601123826/http://www.pa.press.net/info/ |archive-date=1 June 1997 |website=PA NewsCentre}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=THE PRESS ASSOCIATION GROUP LIMITED |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05322278 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926230729/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05322278 |archive-date=26 September 2024 |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=Find and update company information |publisher=Companies House}}</ref>).<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |date=24 January 2009 |title=Inside your new Saturday Times |work=The Times |page=3 |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=69541 |id={{Gale|IF0503959182}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=5–11 July 2003 |title=[Imprint] |magazine=TheKnowledge |page=3}} Located in: {{Cite news |date=5 July 2003 |title=Thisweek |work=The Times |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=67807 |id={{Gale|PWPZBT215270075}}}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=September 2024}} Its taglines/coverlines include: "Your pocket guide to what's on in London",<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 July 2003 |title=[Coverline] |work=The Times |page=1 |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=67807 |id={{Gale|JRKEEM549392329}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite document |last=Cleaver |first=Martin |title=Prensa inglesa. Cacería |type=Photo |publisher=AP}} On page 43 of: {{Cite magazine |last=Mergier |first=Anne Marie |date=27 July 2003 <!-- "27 DE JULIO DE 2003" --> |title=Vergüenza en Gran Bretaña por el suicidio del científico David Kelly<!-- from table of contents --> / Acorralado por el poder: Kelly, el suicida<!-- from first page of article --> |url=<!-- website: http://www.proceso.com.mx --> |department=Internacional |magazine=proceso: semanario de informacion y analisis |publisher=<!-- maybe "cisa: Comunicacion e Informacion, SA de CV" or "apro: agencia proceso de informacion"? --> |pages=42–45 |publication-place=Naucalpan, Mexico <!-- "IMPRESION: Editorial Esfuerzo, S.A. de C.V. Responsable: Jorge Galvez; Calle de Esfuerzo 16-A, Naucalpan, Estado de Mexico; Tel. 53.58.59.58" --> |volume=<!-- AÑO --> 27 |issue=1395}}</ref> "The World's Greatest City, Cut Down To Size",<ref name=":3" /> and "Your critical guide to the cultural week".<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=6–12 August 2005 |title=The Edinburgh issue |magazine=TheKnowledge |page=1 |edition=London / East England}} Located in: {{Cite news |date=6 August 2005 |title=The Knowledge |work=The Times |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=68459 |id={{Gale|IF0502915383}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=6 August 2005 |title=The Knowledge Goes to Edinburgh |work=The Times |page=2 |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=68459 |id={{Gale|IF0502914621}}}}</ref> It has been described as "a weekly entertainment guide to what to see and what to miss".<ref>{{Cite book |url=<!-- www.superbrands.org/uk --> |title=CoolBrands <!-- previous editions were labeled "Cool BrandLeaders" --> |date=2005 |publisher=Superbrands Ltd |isbn=0-9550824-1-2 |edition=4th |publication-place=London |pages=172–173 |chapter=The Times}}</ref>

These supplements were relaunched on 24 January 2009 as: ''Sport'', ''Saturday Review'' (arts, books, TV listings and ideas), ''Weekend'' (including travel and lifestyle features), ''Playlist'' (an entertainment listings guide), and ''The Times Magazine'' (columns on various topics).<ref name="newspaper-history">{{Cite web|date=13 November 2019|title=Full History of the Times Newspaper|url=https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/blog/the-times-newspaper-history/|access-date=5 November 2020|website=Historic Newspapers|language=en-GB|archive-date=2 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202040519/https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/blog/the-times-newspaper-history/|url-status=live}}</ref>

====''The Times Magazine''====
''The Times Magazine'' features columns touching on various subjects such as celebrities, fashion and beauty, food and drink, homes and gardens, or simply writers' anecdotes. Notable contributors include [[Giles Coren]], Food and Drink Writer of the Year in 2005 and [[Nadiya Hussain]], winner of ''[[The Great British Bake Off]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/what-nadiya-did-next-mpvpnhv337d|title=What Nadiya did next|last=Carpenter|first=Louise|date=14 November 2015|work=The Times|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228221816/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-nadiya-did-next-mpvpnhv337d|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Online presence===
{{Redirect|The Times Online|the online version of ''The Beaver County Times''|The Beaver County Times}}
''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' have had an online presence since 1996, originally at ''the-times.co.uk'' and ''sunday-times.co.uk'', and later at ''timesonline.co.uk'' and ''thetimes.co.uk''. Both papers are now hosted on ''thetimes.com''. There are also [[iOS]] and [[Android (operating system)|Android]] editions of both newspapers available in the same app, ''The Times: UK'' & ''World News''. Both papers are also hosted in the Classic app, a purpose-built tablet-only application. Since July 2010 News UK has required readers who do not subscribe to the print edition to pay £2 per week to read ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' online.<ref>{{cite news|date = 26 March 2010|title = Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8588432.stm|work = [[BBC News]]|access-date = 26 March 2010|archive-date = 13 December 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171213071615/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8588432.stm|url-status = live}}</ref>

Visits to the websites decreased by 87% after the paywall was introduced in October 2010, from 21 million unique users per month to 2.7 million one month later.<ref>{{cite news |date=2 November 2010 |title=Times and Sunday Times readership falls after paywall |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11671984 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102081233/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11671984 |archive-date=2 November 2010 |access-date=2 November 2010 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref> In November 2024, ''thetimes.com'' site had a readership of 103 million.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 January 2025 |title=Most popular websites for news in the UK: Monthly top 50 listing |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-uk-monthly-2/ |access-date=23 January 2025 |publisher=Press Gazette}}</ref> In October 2011, there were around 111,000 subscribers to ''The Times''{{'}} digital products,<ref>{{cite web |date=14 October 2011 |title=Digital subscribers to The Times and The Sunday Times continue to grow |url=http://www.newsint.co.uk/press_releases/digital_subs.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114030351/http://www.newsint.co.uk/press_releases/digital_subs.html |archive-date=14 November 2012 |access-date=11 February 2015 |website=News International |format=Press release}}</ref> which increased to 600,000 digital subscribers by September 2024.<ref>{{cite web |date=7 November 2024 |title=NEWS CORPORATION REPORTS FIRST QUARTER RESULTS FOR FISCAL 2025 |url=https://newscorp.com/app/uploads/2024/11/Q1-FY2025-Earnings-Release_FINAL_7-November-2024.pdf |access-date=23 January 2025 |website=News Corp }}</ref> A Reuters Institute survey in 2024 ranked ''The Times'' as having the ninth highest trust rating out of 15 different outlets polled.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Newman |first1=Nic |last2=Fletcher |first2=Richard |last3=Robertson |first3=Craig T. |last4=Ross Arguedas |first4=Amy |last5=Nielsen |first5=Rasmus Kleis |date=17 June 2024 |title=Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 |url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-06/RISJ_DNR_2024_Digital_v10%20lr.pdf |access-date=23 January 2025 |website=Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |doi=10.60625/risj-vy6n-4v57}}</ref>

The Times Digital Archive is available by subscription.

The [[Wikipedia community]] considers ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' to be generally reliable sources.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hurley |first=Bevan |date=6 February 2025 |title=Wikipedia accused of blacklisting conservative US media |url=https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/wikipedia-blacklist-sources-websites-rltf92jlx |access-date=26 April 2025 |website=The Times |language=en}}</ref>

==Ownership==
''The Times'' has had the following eight owners since its foundation in 1785:<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UlOAAAAYAAJ|title=Academic American Encyclopedia|date=1985|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-2008-3|volume=20|pages=19|language=en|chapter=Walter, John|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131607/https://books.google.com/books?id=9UlOAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1785 to 1803: [[John Walter (publisher)|John Walter]]
* 1803 to 1847: [[John Walter (editor, born 1776)|John Walter, 2nd]]
* 1847 to 1894: [[John Walter (third)|John Walter III]]
* 1894 to 1908: [[Arthur Fraser Walter]]
* 1908 to 1922: [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe|Lord Northcliffe]]
* 1922 to 1966: [[Astor family]]
* 1966 to 1981: [[Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet|Roy Thomson]] and the [[International Thomson Organization]]<ref name="m541">{{cite web | title=Factbox: A chronology of Thomson Reuters Corp | website=Reuters | date=2018-01-31 | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/business/factbox-a-chronology-of-thomson-reuters-corp-idUSKBN1FK0E0/ | access-date=2025-09-08}}</ref>
* 1981 to present: [[News UK]] (formerly News International, a wholly owned subsidiary of [[News Corp]], run by [[Rupert Murdoch]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/newscorporationt0000marj|url-access=registration|title=News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change|last=Marjoribanks|first=Timothy|date=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77535-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newscorporationt0000marj/page/102 102]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-and-sunday-times-merger-ruled-out-directors-finally-approve-appointments-witherow-and-ivens/|title=Times and Sunday Times merger ruled out as directors finally approve appointments of Witherow and Ivens|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|date=30 September 2013|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229072923/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-and-sunday-times-merger-ruled-out-directors-finally-approve-appointments-witherow-and-ivens/|url-status=live}}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed">
File:John walter.jpg|[[John Walter (publisher)|John Walter]], the founder of ''The Times''
File:John Walter II.jpg|[[John Walter (editor, born 1776)|John Walter II]]
File:John Walter 1818–1894.jpg|[[John Walter (third)|John Walter III]]
File:British newspaper and publishing magnate Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe.jpg|[[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe|Lord Northcliffe]]
File:Roy Thomson Cropped.jpg|[[Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet|Roy Thomson]]
File:Rupert Murdoch - Flickr - Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer.jpg|[[Rupert Murdoch]]
</gallery>

==Readership==
''The Times'' had a circulation of 70,405 on 5 September 1870, due to a reduction in price and the [[Franco-Prussian War]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ifg2AAAAIAAJ |title=The History of the Times: The tradition established, 1841-1884 |date=1951 |pages=303 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Simon-Vandenbergen |first=A. M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tE4dAQAAIAAJ |title=The Grammar of the Headlines in The Times, 1870-1970 |date=1981 |publisher=AWLSK |isbn=978-90-6569-300-6 |pages=67 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Walker |first=Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzdaAAAAYAAJ |title=Powers of the Press: Twelve of the World's Influential Newspapers |date=1983 |publisher=Adama Books |isbn=978-0-915361-10-6 |language=en}}</ref> ''The Times'' had a circulation of 150,000 in March 1914, due to a reduction in price.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Thompson |first=J. Lee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gdAGfACAtJQC&pg=PA14 |title=Politicians, the Press, & Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe & the Great War, 1914-1919 |date=1999 |publisher=Kent State University Press |isbn=978-0-87338-637-1 |pages=14 |language=en}}</ref> ''The Times'' had a circulation of 248,338 in 1958, a circulation of 408,300 in 1968, and a circulation of 295,863 in 1978.<ref name=MediaGuide2001p58>Steve Peak and Paul Fisher (eds). The Media Guide 2001. (The Guardian Media Guide 2001). Ninth Annual Edition. Mathew Clayton. 2000. ISBN 1841154237. p 58.</ref> At the time of Harold Evans' appointment as editor in 1981, ''The Times'' had an average daily sale of 282,000 copies in comparison to the 1.4 million daily sales of its traditional rival, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.<ref name="Stewart, p 51"/> By 1988, ''The Times'' had a circulation of 443,462.<ref name=MediaGuide2001p58/> By November 2005 ''The Times'' sold an average of 691,283 copies per day, the second-highest of any British "[[Quality press|quality]]" newspaper (after ''The Daily Telegraph'', which had a circulation of 903,405 copies in the period), and the highest in terms of full-rate sales.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/presspublishing/tables/0,,1665378,00.html |title=National daily newspaper circulation November 2005 |access-date=13 February 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114030359/http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/tables/0,,1665378,00.html |archive-date=14 November 2012 }}</ref> By March 2014 average daily circulation of ''The Times'' had fallen to 394,448 copies,<ref name="circ">{{cite web|title=Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/print-abcs-seven-uk-national-newspapers-losing-print-sales-at-more-than-10-per-cent-year-on-year/|website=Press Gazette|date=23 January 2017|access-date=28 January 2017|archive-date=5 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505185855/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/print-abcs-seven-uk-national-newspapers-losing-print-sales-at-more-than-10-per-cent-year-on-year/|url-status=live}}</ref> compared to ''The Daily Telegraph''{{'}}s 523,048,<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite web|title=The Daily Telegraph – readership data|url=http://www.newsworks.org.uk/The-Daily-Telegraph|publisher=News Works|access-date=12 April 2014|archive-date=17 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117164607/http://www.newsworks.org.uk/The-Daily-Telegraph|url-status=dead}}</ref> with the two retaining respectively the second-highest and highest circulations among British "quality" newspapers. In contrast, ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', the highest-selling "tabloid" daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, sold an average of 2,069,809 copies in March 2014,<ref name=TheSun>{{cite web|title=The Sun – readership data|url=http://www.newsworks.org.uk/The-Sun|publisher=News Works|access-date=12 April 2014|archive-date=24 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124015618/http://www.newsworks.org.uk/The-Sun|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the ''[[Daily Mail]]'', the highest-selling "middle market" British daily newspaper, sold an average of 1,708,006 copies in the same period.<ref name=DMail>{{cite web|title=Daily Mail – readership data|url=http://www.newsworks.org.uk/Daily-Mail|website=News Works|access-date=12 April 2014|archive-date=25 March 2025|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250325083539/https://archive.ph/20140411235038/http:/www.newsworks.org.uk/Daily-Mail |url-status=dead}}</ref>

''The Sunday Times'' has significantly higher circulation than ''The Times'', and sometimes outsells ''The Sunday Telegraph''. In January 2019, ''The Times'' had a circulation of 417,298<ref name=ABC>{{cite web|title=National newspaper ABCs|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/national-newspaper-abcs-mail-titles-see-year-on-year-circulation-lift-as-bulk-sales-distortion-ends/|website=[[Press Gazette]]|access-date=10 March 2019|date=14 February 2019|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814194802/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/national-newspaper-abcs-mail-titles-see-year-on-year-circulation-lift-as-bulk-sales-distortion-ends/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''The Sunday Times'' 712,291.<ref name=ABC />

In a 2009 national readership survey, ''The Times'' was found to have the highest number of [[NRS social grade|ABC1]] 25–44 readers and the largest number of readers in London of any of the "quality" papers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Times and BBC Radio 5 Live {{!}} Journoblog.com |url=http://www.journoblog.com/2009/11/the-times-and-bbc-radio-5-live/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515050142/http://www.journoblog.com/2009/11/the-times-and-bbc-radio-5-live/ |archive-date=15 May 2014 |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=www.journoblog.com |language=en-US |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Typeface==
''The Times'' is the originator of the widely used [[Times New Roman]] typeface, originally developed by [[Stanley Morison]] of ''The Times'' in collaboration with [[Monotype Imaging]] for its legibility in low-tech printing. In November 2006, ''The Times'' began printing headlines in a new typeface, [[Times New Roman#Later typefaces used by The Times|Times Modern]]. ''The Times'' was printed in [[broadsheet]] format for 219 years, but switched to [[compact (newspaper)|compact]] size in 2004 in an attempt to appeal more to younger readers and commuters using public transport. ''The Sunday Times'' remains a broadsheet.

{{quote box|The... typeface{{snd}}The Times New Roman{{snd}}debuted on October 3, 1932... The design was exclusively available to ''The Times'' for one year, and then made available to other customers on October 3, 1933. (Documented in a few places, but the reference I have in front of me is The Monotype Recorder vol. XXXI, no. 247, from September–October 1932. Complicating matters, this was misprinted as being vol. XXI, no. 246.)

This is the big one: the previous face was not known as Times Old Roman. Jeez. Just think about it: why would something be known as "old" whatever before there was a new version? In fact{{snd}}and this is documented in ''Printing in the Twentieth Century'' (published by ''The Times''), The Monotype Recorder, and elsewhere{{snd}}the various typefaces used before the introduction (The) Times New Roman {{sic}} didn't really have a formal name.

They were a suite of types originally made by Miller and Co. (later Miller & Richards) in Edinburgh around 1813, generally referred to as "modern". When The Times began using Monotype (and other hot-metal machines) in 1908, this design was remade by Monotype for its equipment. As near as I can tell, it looks like Monotype Series no. 1{{snd}}Modern (which was based on a Miller & Richards typeface){{snd}}was what was used up until 1932.
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| width = 50%|[[Dan Rhatigan]], type director<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2011/08/it_was_never_ca.html|website=Ultrasparky|title=It was never called Times Old Roman|date=19 August 2011|access-date=13 December 2015|archive-date=12 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012192243/http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2011/08/it_was_never_ca.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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[[File:Times New Roman-sample.svg|thumb|right|An example of the [[Times New Roman]] typeface]]
''The Times'' started using the Monotype Modern typeface in 1908.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Tally of Types|author=Morison|year=1953|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=15}}</ref>

''The Times'' commissioned the [[serif]] typeface [[Times New Roman]], created by [[Victor Lardent]] at the English branch of [[Monotype Corporation|Monotype]], in 1931.<ref name="loxley">{{cite book|last=Loxley|first=Simon|title=Type: the secret history of letters |publisher=I. B. Tauris |year=2006|pages=130–131|isbn=1-84511-028-5}}</ref> It was commissioned after [[Stanley Morison]] had written an article criticising ''The Times'' for being badly printed and typographically antiquated.<ref name="oxdnb">{{cite book |last=Carter|first=H. G.|others=rev. David McKitterick |chapter=Morison, Stanley Arthur (1889–1967) |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2004|title=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]}}</ref> Victor Lardent, an artist from ''The Times''{{'}} advertising department, created the typeface under Morison's supervision. Morison used an older typeface named [[Plantin (typeface)|Plantin]] as the basis for his design but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. Times New Roman made its debut in the issue of 3 October 1932.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.typolis.de/version1/engl/ftimes.htm |title=TYPOlis: Times New Roman |website=Typolis.de |date=3 October 1932 |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=17 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717043052/http://www.typolis.de/version1/engl/ftimes.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> 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 (newspaper format)|tabloid]] in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch typeface five times since 1972. However, all the new typeface have been variants of the original New Roman type:
* Times Europa was designed by [[Walter Tracy]] in 1972 for ''The Times'', as a sturdier alternative to the Times font family, designed for the demands of faster printing presses and cheaper paper. The typeface features more open counter spaces.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34aLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT345|title=The Essential Type Directory: A Sourcebook of Over 1,800 Typefaces and Their Histories|last=Dawson|first=Peter|date=17 December 2019|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-7624-6851-5|pages=345 <!-- &pg=PT345 -->|language=en|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131615/https://books.google.com/books?id=34aLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT345#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Times Roman replaced Times Europa on 30 August 1982.<ref name="Driver2006">{{cite news |last1=Driver |first1=David |title=After 221 years, the world's leading newspaper shows off a fresh face |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/after-221-years-the-worlds-leading-newspaper-shows-off-a-fresh-face-vxs5wkc0ch6 |access-date=23 June 2018 |work=The Times |date=20 November 2006 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=24 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624010621/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/after-221-years-the-worlds-leading-newspaper-shows-off-a-fresh-face-vxs5wkc0ch6 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Times Millennium was made in 1991,<ref name="Driver2006" /> drawn by Gunnlaugur Briem on the instructions of Aurobind Patel, composing manager of News International.
* Times Classic first appeared in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fontshop.com/features/fontmag/002/02_news/ |title=Typography of News Bigger, faster, better |website=Fontshop.com |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=14 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214084026/http://www.fontshop.com/features/fontmag/002/02_news/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Designed as an economical face by the British-type team of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, it took advantage of the new PC-based publishing system at the newspaper while obviating the production shortcomings of its predecessor, Times Millennium. The new typeface included 120 letters per font. Initially, the family comprised ten fonts, but a condensed version was added in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title=Times® Font Family Typeface Story |url=https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/times/story |website=Fonts.com |access-date=11 October 2021 |language=en |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017171231/https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/times/story |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Times Modern was unveiled on 20 November 2006, as the successor of Times Classic.<ref name="Driver2006" /> Designed for improving legibility in smaller font sizes, it uses 45-degree angled bracket serifs. Ben Preston, the deputy editor of ''The Times'', and the designer Neville Brody led Research Studios in creating the custom typeface, which remains wholly owned by The Times.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=184449 |title=Neville Brody's Research Studios Creates New Font and Design Changes for The Times as Compact Format Continues to Attract Loyal Readership |location=London |publisher=PR Newswire |date=15 November 2006 |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=23 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523125758/http://www2.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=184449 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Political alignment==
{{Conservatism UK|Media}}
Historically, the paper was not overtly pro-[[Tories (British political party)|Tory]] or [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]], but has been a bastion of the [[The Establishment#United Kingdom|British Establishment]] and the [[British Empire]]. In 1959 the historian of journalism [[Allan Nevins]] analysed the importance of ''The Times'' in shaping the views of events of London's elite, writing:
<blockquote>"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]]."<ref>Allan Nevins, "American Journalism and Its Historical Treatment", ''Journalism Quarterly'' (1959) 36#4 pp 411–22</ref></blockquote>

''The Times'' adopted a stance described as "peculiarly detached" at the [[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945 UK general election]]; although it was increasingly critical of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]'s campaign, it did not advocate a vote for any one party.<ref>[[R. B. McCallum]] and Alison Readman, ''The British General Election of 1945'', Oxford University Press, 1947, p.&nbsp;181–2.</ref> However, the newspaper reverted to the Conservatives at the [[1950 United Kingdom general election|next election]], in 1950. It supported the Conservatives for the subsequent three elections, followed by support for both the Conservatives and the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] for the next five elections, expressly supporting a Conservative–Liberal coalition in 1974. It then backed the Conservatives solidly [[1997 United Kingdom general election|until 1997]], when it declined to make any party endorsement but supported individual (primarily [[Euroscepticism|Eurosceptic]]) candidates.<ref>[[David Butler (psephologist)|David Butler]] and Dennis Kavanagh, "The British General Election of 1997", Macmillan, London, 1997, p. 156.</ref>

For the [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001 general election]], ''The Times'' declared its support for [[Tony Blair]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government, which was returned to government in a [[Landslide victory|landslide]] (although not as large as in 1997). It supported Labour again [[2005 United Kingdom general election|in 2005]], when Labour achieved a third successive win, albeit with a reduced majority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.supanet.com/business--money/which-political-parties-do-the-newspapers-support--25923p1.html|title=Which political parties do the newspapers support?|last=Lancaster|first=Dave|date=1 October 2009|publisher=Supanet|access-date=27 October 2010|archive-date=9 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009142632/http://www.supanet.com/business--money/which-political-parties-do-the-newspapers-support--25923p1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, according to [[Ipsos MORI|MORI]], the voting intentions of ''The Times''' readership were 40% for the Conservatives, 29% for the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]], and 26% for the Labour Party.<ref name="MORI survey">{{cite web|url=http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/755/Voting-Intention-by-Newspaper-Readership.aspx|title=Voting intention by newspaper readership|date=9 March 2005|publisher=Ipsos MORI|access-date=18 July 2009|archive-date=16 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716090017/http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/755/Voting-Intention-by-Newspaper-Readership.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> For the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]], ''The Times'' declared its support for the Conservatives once again; the election ended with the Conservatives taking the most votes and seats but having to form [[Cameron–Clegg coalition|a coalition with]] the Liberal Democrats in order to form a government as they had failed to gain an overall majority.<ref name = uk>{{cite news|last=Stoddard|first=Katy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/04/general-election-newspaper-support |title= Newspaper support in UK general elections|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=4 May 2010|access-date=27 October 2010 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224051644/https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/04/general-election-newspaper-support |url-status=live}}</ref>

Its changes in political alignment make ''The Times'' the most varied newspaper in terms of political support in British history.<ref name = uk/> Some columnists in ''The Times'' are connected to the Conservative Party, such as [[Daniel Finkelstein]], [[Tim Montgomerie]], [[Matthew Parris]] and [[Matt Ridley]], but there are also columnists connected to the Labour Party, such as [[David Aaronovitch]] and [[Jenni Russell]].<ref>{{cite web|title=How left or right-wing are the UK's newspapers?|url=https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2017/03/07/how-left-or-right-wing-are-uks-newspapers|last=Smith|first=Matthew|date=7 March 2017|website=[[YouGov]]|access-date=14 September 2020|archive-date=11 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711060555/https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2017/03/07/how-left-or-right-wing-are-uks-newspapers|url-status=live}}</ref>

''The Times'' occasionally makes endorsements of foreign political candidates. In November 2012 it endorsed a second term for [[Barack Obama]] as [[President of the United States]] in the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012 US presidential election]], although it also expressed reservations about [[Foreign policy of the Obama administration|his foreign policy]].<ref>{{cite news |date=1 November 2012 |title=America Decides |newspaper=The Times |location=London |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/america-decides-v3xnllbv03f |url-status=live |access-date=31 December 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20251116073957/https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/america-decides-v3xnllbv03f |archive-date=16 November 2025}}</ref>

During the [[2019 Conservative Party leadership election|2019 Conservative leadership election]], ''The Times'' endorsed [[Boris Johnson]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-times-view-on-the-next-prime-minister-boris-johnson-at-no-10-njpzrff8v|title=The Times view on the next prime minister: Boris Johnson at No 10|date=6 July 2019|work=The Times|access-date=29 September 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=15 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115030736/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-the-next-prime-minister-boris-johnson-at-no-10-njpzrff8v|url-status=live}}</ref> and subsequently endorsed the Conservatives in the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|general election of that year]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-times-s-endorsement-for-the-general-election-back-to-the-future-bmtz9gv97|title=The Times's endorsement for the general election: Back to the Future|date=11 December 2019|work=The Times|access-date=13 April 2020|archive-date=18 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118102219/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-s-endorsement-for-the-general-election-back-to-the-future-bmtz9gv97|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2022 [[Tony Gallagher (editor)|Tony Gallagher]] was appointed to replace [[John Witherow]], who had served nine years as editor. A former editor of ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', Gallagher enthusiastically backed [[Brexit]] during the [[2016 EU referendum]]. According to ''[[The Guardian]]'', "''The Times''{{'}} readership is split politically, with journalists at the outlet speculating on how Gallagher will shape the paper's editorial line as the prospect of a Labour government became more likely (in 2024)."<ref name="Waterson 2022">{{cite web |last=Waterson |first=Jim |title=Tony Gallagher confirmed as new editor of the Times |website=The Guardian |date=28 September 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/28/tony-gallagher-confirmed-as-new-editor-of-the-times |access-date=21 August 2023 |archive-date=16 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230916232657/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/28/tony-gallagher-confirmed-as-new-editor-of-the-times |url-status=live }}</ref>

''The Times'' did not endorse any political party at the [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 general election]]. In its leader article, it stated that Labour "cannot expect an endorsement" as it had "yet to earn the trust of the British people" and had been "sparing with the truth about what it will do in office".<ref>{{cite news |date=3 July 2024 |title=The Times view on Labour in power: Leap in the Dark |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/the-times-view/article/the-times-view-on-labour-in-power-leap-in-the-dark-sppjn6q5f |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Times}}</ref>

==Sponsorships==
''The Times'', along with the [[British Film Institute]], sponsored the [[BFI London Film Festival]] from 2003 to 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3116646.stm|title=Female stars lead London festival|access-date=20 July 2012|work=BBC News|date=17 September 2003|first=Neil|last=Smith|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131604/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3116646.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.screendaily.com/lffs-increased-ambition/5019188.article |title=LFF's increased ambition |work=Screendaily |date=13 October 2010 |first=Geoffrey |last=Macnab |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> It also sponsors the [[Cheltenham Literature Festival]] and the [[Asia House Festival of Asian Literature]] at Asia House, London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/|title=The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival|website=Cheltenham Festivals|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=24 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224082400/https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Editors==
{{div col|colwidth=25em}}
* [[John Walter (publisher)|John Walter]] 1785 to 1803
* [[John Walter (editor, born 1776)|John Walter, Jnr]] 1803 to 1812
* Sir [[John Stoddart (journalist)|John Stoddart]] 1812 to 1816
* [[Thomas Barnes (journalist)|Thomas Barnes]] 1817 to 1841
* [[John Thadeus Delane]] 1841 to 1877
* [[Thomas Chenery]] 1877 to 1884
* [[George Earle Buckle]] 1884 to 1912
* [[George Geoffrey Dawson]] 1912 to 1919
* George Sydney Freeman 1919 (two-month 'inter-regnum')<ref>{{cite news |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:xL_MgkxdZ5cJ:www.collegeofteachers.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/Patricia%2520Rowan%25201997.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi9n_oSQao1AIo6QeWHiTRwU_1BWsGgYNnnNGYQb7bl1SZLQ27euy8z_LJNV45XxjZE0l_l09WY1W8Mc4YPOlU7-xynUOLrNSgMY8cA8TNp0FbquzC6AAoCG7KizxcnQIAOZXJi&sig=AHIEtbS0uHXcFpUJMIYzdTfxDwW864Ecpg |title=Power or Influence: Can educational journalists make a difference |year=1997 |access-date=23 January 2013 |archive-date=3 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303083439/https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:xL_MgkxdZ5cJ:www.collegeofteachers.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/Patricia%2520Rowan%25201997.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi9n_oSQao1AIo6QeWHiTRwU_1BWsGgYNnnNGYQb7bl1SZLQ27euy8z_LJNV45XxjZE0l_l09WY1W8Mc4YPOlU7-xynUOLrNSgMY8cA8TNp0FbquzC6AAoCG7KizxcnQIAOZXJi&sig=AHIEtbS0uHXcFpUJMIYzdTfxDwW864Ecpg |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Wickham Steed|Henry Wickham Steed]] 1919 to 1922
* [[George Geoffrey Dawson]]1923 to 1941
* [[Robert McGowan Barrington-Ward]] 1941 to 1948
* [[William Francis Casey]] 1948 to 1952
* Sir [[William John Haley]] 1952 to 1966
* [[William Rees-Mogg]]<!-- not ennobled at the time --> 1967 to 1981
* [[Harold Evans]] 1981 to 1982
* [[Charles Douglas-Home (journalist)|Charles Douglas-Home]] 1982 to 1985
* [[Charles Wilson (journalist)|Charles Wilson]] 1985 to 1990
* [[Simon Jenkins]] 1990 to 1992
* [[Peter Stothard]] 1992 to 2002
* [[Robert James Thomson|Robert Thomson]] 2002 to 2007
* [[James Harding (journalist)|James Harding]] 2007 to 2012
* [[John Witherow]] 2013 to 2022
* [[Tony Gallagher (editor)|Tony Gallagher]] 2022 to date
{{div col end}}

==Related publications==
An Irish [[digital newspaper|digital]] edition of the paper was launched in September 2015 at TheTimes.ie.<ref name="Marketing.ie 2018">{{cite web |title=Irish edition of The Times launched |website=Marketing.ie |date=16 April 2018 |url=http://marketing.ie/irish-edition-of-the-times-launched/ |access-date=16 April 2018 |archive-date=9 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309215110/http://marketing.ie/irish-edition-of-the-times-launched |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.todayfm.com/WATCH:-Gavan-Reilly-gives-us-an-overall-update-from-Midday--GE16 |title = WATCH: Gavan Reilly gives us an overall update from Midday – #GE16 |website = Today FM |access-date = 29 February 2016 |archive-date = 19 October 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171019042332/https://www.todayfm.com/WATCH:-Gavan-Reilly-gives-us-an-overall-update-from-Midday--GE16 |url-status = dead }}</ref> A print edition was launched in June 2017, replacing the international edition previously distributed in Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news.co.uk/2017/05/the-ireland-edition-of-the-times-available-in-print/|title=The Ireland edition of The Times available in print|website=www.news.co.uk|date=24 May 2017|language=en-GB|access-date=1 June 2017|archive-date=24 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524195129/https://www.news.co.uk/2017/05/the-ireland-edition-of-the-times-available-in-print/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Irish edition was set to close in June 2019 with the loss of 20 jobs.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/times-ireland-to-make-most-editorial-staff-redundant-1.3899808|title=Times Ireland to make most editorial staff redundant|first1=Jack|last1=Horgan-Jones|first2=Laura|last2=Slattery|date=21 May 2019|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2 July 2020|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731053855/https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/times-ireland-to-make-most-editorial-staff-redundant-1.3899808|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]'' (''TLS'') first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'', becoming a separately paid-for weekly literature and society magazine in 1914.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/the-ultimate-review-of-reviews-6352818.html |title=The ultimate review of reviews |access-date=20 July 2012 |newspaper=London Evening Standard |date=6 November 2001 |archive-date=30 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430120156/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/the-ultimate-review-of-reviews-6352818.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''TLS'' is owned and published by [[News UK|News International]] and co-operates closely with ''The Times'', with its online version hosted on ''The Times'' website, and its editorial offices based in 1 London Bridge Street, London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Contact us |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/contact-us/ |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=TLS |language=en-GB |archive-date=24 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624232249/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/contact-us/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Between 1951 and 1966'', The Times'' published a separately paid-for quarterly science review, ''[[The Times Science Review]]''. ''The Times'' started a new, free, monthly science magazine, ''Eureka'', in October 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.campaignlive.com/article/times-launches-science-magazine-eureka/943053|title=The Times launches science magazine Eureka|last=Ramsay|first=Fiona|date=2 October 2009|website=Campaign|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229060350/https://www.campaignlive.com/article/times-launches-science-magazine-eureka/943053|url-status=live}}</ref> The magazine closed in October 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Turvill |first=William |date=1 October 2012 |title=News International confirms closure of Times science magazine Eureka |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/news-international-confirms-closure-times-science-magazine-eureka/ |access-date=29 December 2019 |website=Press Gazette |language=en-US |archive-date=29 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229060817/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/news-international-confirms-closure-times-science-magazine-eureka/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

''The Times Review of Industry'' (began in 1947)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAhXAAAAYAAJ |title=The Economist |date=1947 |publisher=Economist Newspaper Limited |language=en}}</ref> and ''Technology'' (began in 1957)<ref>{{Cite book |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGrgAAAAMAAJ |title=Union List of Serials in New Zealand Libraries |date=1969 |publisher=National Library of New Zealand |language=en}}</ref> merged in March 1963 to become ''The Times Review of Industry & Technology''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Coman |first=Edwin Truman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uuBtIsy9RdAC&pg=PA54 |title=Sources of Business Information |date=1970 |publisher=University of California Press |pages=54 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUj4hv1OSfYC |title=New Serial Titles |date=1961 |publisher=Library of Congress |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_tWAAAAMAAJ |title=MULS, a Union List of Serials |date=1981 |publisher=MINITEX |language=en}}</ref>  From 1952 ''The Times Review of Industry'' included the ''London and Cambridge Economic Bulletin''.<ref>Carter and Roy, British Economic Statistics, 1954, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F2mcCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 p 169] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103090235/https://books.google.com/books?id=F2mcCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 |date=3 November 2023 }}. Cairncross, Austin Robinson: The Life of an Economic Adviser, [https://books.google.com/books?id=df6-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125 p 125] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103044052/https://books.google.com/books?id=df6-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125 |date=3 November 2023 }}.</ref>

Times Atlases have been produced since 1895. The Collins Bartholomew imprint of HarperCollins Publishers is currently responsible for producing them. The flagship product is ''[[Times Atlas of the World|The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collins.co.uk/pages/times-books-our-heritage|title=The Times Books – our heritage|website=Collins|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229073842/https://collins.co.uk/pages/times-books-our-heritage|archive-date=29 December 2019|access-date=29 December 2019}}</ref>

In 1971 ''The Times'' began publishing the ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' (now known as the ''[[Times Higher Education]]'') which focuses its coverage on tertiary education.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoW9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT27|title=Researching Higher Education: International perspectives on theory, policy and practice|last1=Case|first1=Jennifer M.|last2=Huisman|first2=Jeroen|date=14 October 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-38206-5|language=en|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131629/https://books.google.com/books?id=KoW9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT27#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Historical value==
In 1915, R. P. Farley said "the files of ''The Times'' must be constantly studied" as an authority for the political and social history of the English people during the period from the [[Reform Bill 1832]] to the [[Elementary Education Act 1870]] (1832–1870).<ref>R P Farley. "Authorities" in "A Political and Social Survey of the Period from 1815-1914". Chapter 2. John Richard Green. A Short History of the English People. Green's Short History of the English People: with Introduction and Notes by L Cecil Jane and a Survey of the Period 1815-1914 by R P Farley. (Everyman's Library). J M Dent & Sons. London and Toronto. E P Dutton & Co. New York. October 1915. Reprinted December 1915. Volume 2. Page 804.</ref> From 1971 to 1973, John Joseph Bagley said ''The Times'' is "valuable" as a source of nineteenth-century English history<ref>J J Bagley. "Historical Interpretation 2: Sources of English History: 1540 to the Present Day". Historical Interpretation. St Martin's Press. New York. 1973. [Date of authorship is 1972.] [https://books.google.com/books?id=5boIAQAAMAAJ Volume 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124061736/https://books.google.com/books?id=5boIAQAAMAAJ |date=24 November 2023 }}. Page 275. (The value of ''The Times'' (and other newspapers) for the study of Nineteenth Century history is discussed further on pages 273 to 276 and 281.)</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bagley |first=John Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5boIAQAAMAAJ |title=Historical Interpretation: Sources of English history, 1540 to the present day |date=1973 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |language=en}}</ref> and that the annual index to ''The Times'' is useful for the twentieth century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bagley |first=John J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DsgAAAAMAAJ |title=Sources of English history, 1540 to the present day |date=1972 |publisher=David & Charles |pages=282 |language=en}}</ref> In 2003 Richard Krzys said ''The Times'' is very reliable as a source of history.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Drake |first=Miriam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sqr-_3FBYiYC&pg=PA1628 |title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition - |date=20 May 2003 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8247-2079-7 |pages=1628 |language=en}}</ref> In 2016 Denise Bates said ''The Times'' is "indispensable" as a source for historical events of national importance.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bates |first=Denise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QRUDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 |title=Historical Research Using British Newspapers |date=30 April 2016 |publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=978-1-4738-5902-9 |pages=11 |language=en}}</ref>

In 2019 James Oldham said ''The Times'' is an important source for ''[[nisi prius]]'' trials.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ibbetson |first1=David J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RIOWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 |title=English Legal History and its Sources: Essays in Honour of Sir John Baker |last2=Jones |first2=Neil |last3=Ramsay |first3=Nigel |date=2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-48306-3 |pages=54 |language=en}}</ref> In 2015 Johnston and Plummer said that ''The Times'' is an important source for music reviews.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Johnston |first1=Roy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzkrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 |title=The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast |last2=Plummer |first2=Declan |date=5 July 2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-54211-1 |pages=18 |language=en}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
In the [[dystopia]]n future world of [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', ''The Times'' has been transformed into an organ of the totalitarian ruling party.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction|last=Shippey|first=Tom|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=2016|isbn=9781781384398|series=Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies|pages=233|chapter=Variations on Newspeak: The Open Question of Nineteen Eighty-Four|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0DjDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131607/https://books.google.com/books?id=y0DjDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|url-status=live}}</ref> The book's lead character, [[Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)|Winston Smith]], is employed to rewrite past issues for the [[Ministry of truth|Ministry of Truth]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=maBtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78|title=The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984|last=Lynskey|first=Dorian|date=4 June 2019|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-385-54406-1|pages=78 <!-- pg=PT78 -->|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131609/https://books.google.com/books?id=maBtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Rex Stout]]'s fictional detective [[Nero Wolfe]] is described as fond of solving ''The'' ''Times''{{'}} [[crossword puzzle]] at his New York home, in preference to those of American papers.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTytJzXMEEgC&pg=PR6|title=Murder by the Book|last=Stout|first=Rex|date=12 May 2010|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-75606-0|pages=vi|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131610/https://books.google.com/books?id=zTytJzXMEEgC&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOKCQ297WX0C&pg=PA119|title=Triple Jeopardy|last=Stout|first=Rex|date=28 April 2010|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-75630-5|pages=119|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131720/https://books.google.com/books?id=mOKCQ297WX0C&pg=PA119#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the [[James Bond|James Bond series]] by [[Ian Fleming]], [[James Bond (literary character)|James Bond]] reads ''The Times''. As described by Fleming in ''[[From Russia, with Love (novel)|From Russia, with Love]],'' ''The Times'' was "the only paper that Bond ever read."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|title=Licence to sell|access-date=20 July 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=28 December 2002|first=John|last=Mullan|location=London|archive-date=26 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326213538/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|url-status=live}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Journalism|London}}
* [[History of journalism in the United Kingdom]]
* [[List of the oldest newspapers]]

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* Bingham, Adrian. "The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2006 (Gale Cengage)", ''English Historical Review'' (2013) 128#533 pp.&nbsp;1037–1040. {{doi|10.1093/ehr/cet144}}.
* Evans, Harold (1983). ''Good Times, Bad Times''. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. {{isbn|0-297-78295-9 }}: Includes sections of black-and-white photographic plates, plus a few charts and diagrams in text pages.
* Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher (1980). ''The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers''. pp.&nbsp;320–329.
* Morison, Stanley (1952).''The History of the Times'' – Volume 1: ''The Thunderer in the Making 1785–1841''. Volume 2: ''The Tradition Established 1841–1884''. Volume 3: ''The Twentieth Century Test 1884–1912''. Volume 4 [published in two parts]: ''The 150th Anniversary and Beyond 1912–1948''.
* Riggs, Bruce Timothy. [https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278388/m2/1/high_res_d/1002720956-riggs.pdf   "Geoffrey Dawson, editor of ''The Times'' (London), and his contribution to the appeasement movement". (PhD dissertation, U of North Texas, 1993) online], bibliography pp. 229–233.

== External links ==
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{{Wikisource|The Times|''The Times''}}
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* {{Official website}}
* [https://archive.org/details/pub_times?sort=-date ''The Times''] at the [[Internet Archive]]
* [https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=01080 Times (London, England) Collection] at the [[Harry Ransom Center]]
* {{Internet Archive author |search=( "The Times" AND London )}} (archives)
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* [[Anthony Trollope]]'s satire [https://web.archive.org/web/20080817081520/http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/trollope/anthony/warden/chapter14.html on the mid-nineteenth century ''Times'']
* Journalism Now: ''The Times'' – [https://web.archive.org/web/20110317185723/http://journalism.winchester.ac.uk/?page=353 Winchester University Journalism History project on ''The Times'' in the 19th century]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140408213603/http://www.timesatlas.com/index.html ''Times'' World Atlases official website] including a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090423130724/http://www.timesatlas.com/Heritage/Pages/Home.aspx History and Heritage section] detailing landmark ''Times'' atlases
* [http://gale.cengage.co.uk/times.aspx/ Archive from 1785 to 2008] – full text and original layout, searchable (not free of charge, registration required)
* {{cite news |author1=Neil, Andrew |author-link=Andrew Neil |author2=Griffiths, Ian |author3= Fitzpatrick, Barry |url= https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/jan/15/rupertmurdoch.pressandpublishing |title= Three views of the industrial dispute twenty years on |date= 15 January 2006 |work=The Observer |ref=none }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070830161221/http://www.rmit.edu.au/appliedcommunication/publiclectures ''The Times'' editor Robert Thomson lecture online: From the editorial desk of ''The Times'', RMIT School of Applied Communication Public Lecture series]

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