The Sun is a British tabloid daily newspaper owned by News UK, a subsidiary of right-wing Australian-born American media baron Rupert Murdoch'sNews Corp
The Sun was originally published only 6 days a week until News Corp also started producing The Sun on Sunday in 2012
The Sun has an average daily print circulation of roughly 1.3 million copies in the UK and a daily readership of about 2.3 million.
News Corp described the Sun as "an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse, a daily relationship". The format of The Sun is tabloid and colloquially known as a red-top
The majority of its print audience is male, C2DE and aged between 35-64 years old