The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish newspaper publisher with headquarters in Edinburgh. Your Sunday edition is called Scotland on Sunday.

History

The Scotsman was founded in 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper dated lawyer William Ritchie and was officially published by Charles Maclaren in response to the "submission" of the other newspapers in Edinburgh in terms of the urban society. The newspaper was " impartiality ", " independence " and " determination " rumored. After the abolition of stamp duty The Scotsman was refounded as a daily newspaper and now had a price of 1 pence and had a circulation of 6000 copies.

The newspaper was bought in 1953 by Canadian millionaire Roy Thomson, which created a huge media empire. In 1995, the twin brothers David and Frederick Barclay bought (both successful businessmen and billionaires ) " The Scotsman " for £ 85 million. They moved the main building of the publishing house, which has traditionally been in Northbridge and where a hotel now stands, in the Holyrood Road, near the new Scottish Parliament building.

In December 2005, The Scotsman was acquired in a £ 160 million deal by Johnston Press, one of the three largest newspaper publisher in the UK.

In the last decade the sheet more and more of The Herald was disparaged as a leading Scottish quality newspaper.

Policy and readers

The Scotsman is regarded as advocates of Scottish self-government. The newspaper was strongly opposed to the inclusion of Scottish troops in the British Army.