楼上抛砖我来引玉The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register (it became The Times on 1 January 1788) The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News I News International is in turn wholly owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert M The Times had an average daily circulation in July 2011 of 441,[1] The Times is the first newspaper to have born that name, lending it subsequently to numerous other papers around the world, such as The Times of India (1838), The Straits Times (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), and The Times (Malta) (1935) For distinguishing purposes it is therefore sometimes referred to, particularly in North America, as the 'London Times' or 'The Times of London'[2][3] The paper is also the originator of the ubiquitous Times Roman typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to compact size in 2004 partly in an attempt to appeal to younger readers and partly to appeal to commuters using public An American edition has been published since 6 June [2] Though traditionally a moderate newspaper and sometimes a supporter of the Conservatives, it supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 general [4] In 2004, according to MORI, the voting intentions of its readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats, 26% for L[5]