The Times es un periódico nacional publicado diariamente en el Reino Unido. Aunque se estuvo imprimiendo en formato broadsheet durante 200 años, hoy en día es de tamaño compacto tabloide (tabloid). Ha llegado a ser popular, puesto que en la actualidad es el único periódico del Reino Unido cuyas cifras de lectores van en aumento. The Times es publicado por News International, una subsidiaria del grupo News Corporation, encabezado por Rupert Murdoch. Durante la mayor parte de su historia, ha sido considerado un periódico sin rival, el periódico por excelencia en el Reino Unido. Ha jugado un papel fundamental tanto en política como en la opinión pública en temas internacionales. Algunos afirman que, recientemente, refleja las ideas conservadoras de Rupert Murdoch, a pesar de mostrar su apoyo al Partido Laborista en 2001 y 2005. The Times es llamado a veces por gente ajena al Reino Unido The London Times o The Times of London para distinguirlo de los otros muchos Times, como puede ser el The New York Times. Sin embargo, éste es el periódico Times original. Es además el creador del tipo de letra Times New Roman, desarrollada originalmente por Stanley Morison del The Times en colaboración con la Monotype Corporation.

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The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its current name on on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by the News Corp group headed by Rupert Murdoch. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967. In 1959 the historian of journalism Allan Nevins analysed the importance of The Times in shaping the views of events of London's elite: 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. The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (founded in 1838), The Straits Times (Singapore) (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), Le Temps (France) (1861-1942), the Cape Times (South Africa) (1872), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Manila Times (1898), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), El Tiempo (Colombia) (1911), The Canberra Times (1926), The Times (Malta) (1935), and The Washington Times (1982). In these countries, the newspaper is often referred to as The London Times or The Times of London, although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. The Times is the originator of the widely used Times Roman typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech printing. In November 2006 The Times began printing headlines in a new font, Times Modern. The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to compact size in 2004 in an attempt to appeal more to younger readers and commuters using public transport. The Sunday Times remains a broadsheet. Though traditionally a moderate newspaper and sometimes a supporter of the Conservative Party, it supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections. In 2004, according to MORI, the voting intentions of its readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats, and 26% for Labour. The Times had an average daily circulation of 394,448 in March 2014; in the same period, The Sunday Times had an average daily circulation of 839,077. An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006. It has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index. A complete historical file of the digitised paper is online from Gage Cengage publisher.

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