List of newspapers in Scotland

This is a list of newspapers in Scotland.

Daily newspapers

Title	Market type	Print	Location	Format	Scottish circulation 2017[1]	Scottish circulation 2016[2]	Scottish circulation 2015[3]	Foundation date
The Herald	Scottish – Quality	Morning	Scottish	Broadsheet	25,869	28,872	32,141	1783
The Scotsman	Scottish – Quality	Morning	Scottish	Compact	19,792	19,449	22,740	1817
The National	Scottish - Tabloid	Morning	Scottish	Compact	9,746	8,496	12,124	2015
Daily Record	Scottish – Popular	Morning	Scottish	Tabloid				1895
The Press and Journal	Regional	Morning	Scottish	Compact	48,208	51,880	56,422	1747
The Courier	Regional	Morning	Scottish	Compact	35,813	39,324	43,031	1801
Greenock Telegraph	Local	Morning	Scottish	Tabloid	8,959	9,555	10,511	1857
Paisley Daily Express	Local	Morning	Scottish	Tabloid	4,508	4,800	5,109	1874
Evening Express	Local - Aberdeen	Evening	Scottish	Tabloid	22,736	25,744	28,802	1879
Evening Times	Local - Glasgow	Evening	Scottish	Tabloid	20,874	23,696	27,733	1876
Edinburgh Evening News	Local	Evening	Scottish	Tabloid	16,660	18,362	21,803	1873
Evening Telegraph	Local - Dundee	Evening	Scottish	Tabloid	13,321	14,971	16,855	1877
The Times (Scottish edition)	UK – Quality	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Compact				1785
The Daily Telegraph (Scottish edition)	UK – Quality	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Broadsheet				1855
i	UK – Quality	Morning	UK newspaper widely available in Scotland	Compact				2010
The Guardian	UK – Quality	Morning	UK newspaper widely available in Scotland	Tabloid				1821
The Financial Times	UK – Quality	Morning	UK newspaper widely available in Scotland	Broadsheet				1888
Scottish Daily Mail	UK – Mid Market	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid				1896
Scottish Daily Express	UK – Mid Market	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid				1900
The Scottish Sun	UK – Popular	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid				1964
Daily Star of Scotland	UK – Popular	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid				1978
Scottish Daily Mirror	UK – Popular	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid				1903
Metro, Scottish Edition	UK – Free	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid				1999
The Morning Star	UK – Mid Market	Morning	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid				1930

Traditionally newspapers could be divided into 'quality', serious-minded newspapers (usually referred to as 'broadsheets' due to their large size) and 'tabloids', or less serious newspapers. But these definitions no longer apply, as several 'quality' papers in Scotland have followed the lead of The Independent, by adopting a tabloid format (which some prefer to refer to as 'compact' to avoid being associated with their more downmarket peers). In Scotland two broadsheet newspapers have made the switch to 'compact' format. The Scotsman did so in August 2004, and the Sunday Herald followed in November 2005.

In addition to newspapers published in Scotland, including Scottish editions of United Kingdom newspapers, a number of local newspapers published in other parts of the British Isles are widely available.

Sunday newspapers

Title	Market type	Location	Format	Scottish circulation
Scotland on Sunday	Scottish – Quality	Scottish	Broadsheet	16,289
The Sunday Post	Scottish – Mid Market	Scottish	Tabloid	123,393
Sunday Mail	Scottish – Popular	Scottish	Tabloid	140,743
Sunday National	Mid Market (pro-independence)	Scottish	Broadsheet
The Sunday Times Scotland	UK – Quality	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Broadsheet	46,593
The Observer	UK – Quality	UK newspaper widely available in Scotland	Tabloid	11,772
The Sunday Telegraph Scotland	UK – Quality	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Broadsheet	11,234
Mail on Sunday Scotland	UK – Mid Market	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid	63,290
Scottish Sunday Express	UK – Mid Market	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid	21,661
Sun on Sunday	UK – Popular	UK newspaper widely available in Scotland	Tabloid	142,272
Daily Star Sunday	UK – Popular	UK newspaper widely available in Scotland	Tabloid	19,299
Scottish Sunday Mirror	UK – Popular	Scottish edition of UK newspaper	Tabloid	7,523
The People	UK – Popular	UK newspaper widely available in Scotland	Tabloid	4,656

Local weekly newspapers

Specialist newspapers

• The i-Witness - Muslim paper in English
• The Pink Paper - Edinburgh soccer paper, which shares its name with a separate gay publication
• Scots Independent - mainly supporting the SNP
• Scottish Catholic Observer
• Scottish Socialist Voice - printed by the SSP
• Third Force News - newspaper serving the voluntary sector, non-party-political

University newspapers

• Brig – University of Stirling
• Gaudie – University of Aberdeen (see: Aberdeen University Students' Association)
• Glasgow University Guardian – University of Glasgow
• The Journal – University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Napier University, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow
• The EDIT - Glasgow Caledonian University
• The Magdalen – University of Dundee (see: Dundee University Students' Association)
• qmunicate – University of Glasgow's Queen Margaret Union
• The Saint – University of St Andrews
• Strathclyde Telegraph – University of Strathclyde
• Student – University of Edinburgh
• Veritas – Napier University

Defunct newspapers

• An Gàidheal Ùr - for speakers of Scottish Gaelic (monthly)
• The Bulletin
• Business am
• The Citizen
• East Lothian News
• Edinburgh Advertiser
• Edinburgh Courant
• Glasgow Evening News
• The Highlander
• Mercurius Caledonius
• The North Briton
• Perth Shopper
• Scottish Daily News
• Scottish Guardian
• Scottish Leader (3 January 1887 – 4 July 1894) - Edinburgh-based daily, Liberal and pro-home rule, established in competition with The Scotsman
• Scottish Standard
• Sunday Scot
• Sunday Standard
• West Lothian Herald & Post

See also

• List of magazines published in Scotland
• Media in Scotland
• Newspapers
• List of Scotland-related topics
• History of British newspapers
• List of left-wing publications in the United Kingdom
• List of right-wing publications in the United Kingdom

Further reading

• Reid, Harry (2006) Deadline: the Story of the Scottish Press. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press ISBN 0-7152-0836-5

References

External links

• ThePaperboy.com UK newspaper directory
• allmediascotland.com
• Advertising spend in Scottish newspapers, Scottish Executive
• Media ownership in the UK
• National and local newspaper links
• Media UK newspaper directory
• History of British newspapers
• The Audit Bureau of Circulation provides circulation figures for Scottish newspapers. Their research is also reproduced in digested form at this Media Guardian index along with commentary.