News International

News International plc is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

The company's major titles are published by two subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers. These newspapers are published at a large site in Wapping in east London, near Tower Hill, which earned the nickname "Fortress Wapping" after a fierce dispute with the union to which the workforce had previously belonged. Between 1987 and 1995, News International-owned News (UK) Ltd which published Today, the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour. All of these newspapers were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago.

In October 2005 News International sold TSL Education, publishers of Times Educational Supplement and other education titles, for £235m ($415m). The Times Literary Supplement, previously part of TSL Education, has been retained by News International as part of this deal.

News International Newspapers Limited

Times Newspapers

Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper The Times (outside the UK, informally known as the London Times) and the broadsheet The Sunday Times.

Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased The Times from the Astor family and merged it with The Sunday Times, which it owned since 1959. This company was purchased by Murdoch's News International in February 1981. In 2006 an American edition of The Times was launched in New York, Boston and some other east coast U.S. cities.

News Group Newspapers

News Group Newspapers publishes the tabloid newspapers The Sun and the News of the World.

The News of the World Organisation was purchased in January 1969. The Sun was acquired in October 1969 from Mirror Group Newspapers.

Other holdings

News International (Advertisements) Limited
News International Associated Services Limited
News International Distribution Limited
News International Newspapers (Knowsley) Limited
News International Newspapers (Scotland) Limited
News International Pension Trustees Limited
News International Supply Company Limited
News International Television Investment Company Limited
News International Television Limited
NI Syndication Limited

External links

http://www.newsoftheworld.com/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
http://www.the-sun.co.uk/
http://www.newsint.co.uk/
Wapping: legacy of Rupert's revolution, January 15, 2006 - The Observer:
- Three views of the industrial dispute twenty years on.

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