The Guardian

The Guardian [ də gɑ dɪən ː ] is a British newspaper, which was founded in 1821 and until 1959 was known as The Manchester Guardian. The Guardian is of Guardian News & Media Ltd. published, which is owned by the Scott Trust, the Foundation pursued as the main objective to safeguard the journalistic and financial independence of the Guardian. Since 1993, the Sunday newspaper The Observer also part of Guardian News & Media Ltd. The headquarters is located in London's Kings Cross.

Profile

Politically represents the Guardian traditionally a left-liberal position, in contrast to most other British newspapers, which are oriented more conservative. The target group of the newspaper are especially the " left-wing liberal, progressive, intellectual urbanites [ ... ] academics, artists and students." In English-speaking is common term for members of this population Guardian Ista layer and the (rather pejoratively used ).

Selected: With the British Press Awards, the Guardian in 1999, 2006 and 2011 became the " Newspaper of the Year " ( " National Newspaper of the Year" in English).

After a decrease of 17.75% in February 2012 compared to the same month last year, the daily edition of the Guardian was around 216,000 copies. He was making it the third most widely read English newspaper. The conditions of the competition leaves ( and their development ) expenses in the same period: 579,000 ( -7.89 %) at the Daily Telegraph, 398,000 ( -10.86 %) in the Times, and 105,000 ( -42.38 %) in the Independent.

Nicknamed "The Grauniad " received the Guardian of satirical magazine Private Eye due to its numerous typographical errors. Once the newspaper should even have their own name in the imprint misspelled. The domain is registered grauniad.co.uk for the Guardian and forwards to the website theguardian.com.

History

C. P. Scott

CP Scott made ​​the Guardian nationally known as a publisher. From 1872 he was editor for 57 years. In 1907, he became the owner of the newspaper. Under his leadership, supported the Guardian William Ewart Gladstone when the Liberals segregating 1886, and turned against the popular opinion that supported the Second Boer War. Scott supported the movement for women's suffrage but refused militant actions of Stimmrechtlerinnen. " The really bizarre situation is that Mr. Lloyd George is advocating that seven million women are free, and at the same time trying desperately militants to stop him by interject the windows of uninvolved people and cancel the meeting of benevolent associations. " Scott believed that " the courage and dedication" of Stimmrechtlerinnen " better occasion and a more sensible leadership earned" would.

Scott's friendship with Chaim Weizmann played a role in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. 1948 support the Guardian of the State of Israel. Daphna Baram tells in her book " Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel " the history of the Guardian and its relationship to the Zionist movement.

In June 1936, the ownership changed to the Scott Trust ( named after the last owner, John Russell Scott, who was the first chairman of the Trust ). This change ensured the newspaper their independence.

Since 1959

By 1959, the newspaper was called The Manchester Guardian, today it is specially connected in North America with that name. In 1992, the Guardian majority stake in the South African weekly newspaper Weekly Mail, which henceforth appears as Weekly Mail & Guardian, and since 1995 as a Mail & Guardian. On 13 September 2005, the Guardian moved from broadsheet to Berliner format. In June 2006, the editors ventured under editor in chief Alan Rusbridger the journalistic equally important as risky step of allowing articles appear on the internet and only then in the print issue first. 2009 was the website of the Guardian, the sixth largest site of all daily newspapers in the world, counting 26 million users per month.

Since 2009 there has been cooperation with the German weekly newspaper Friday. Since 2011, The Guardian attempts at the form of collaborative journalism. By publishing the list of topics in a separate blog, readers are given the opportunity to report to the authors, can give information and help with the research.

2005-2012 The Guardian tried to get on legal means insight into letters from Prince Charles ( Critics accuse Prince Charles to exceed his powers and trying to enforce his views on ecology, alternative medicine and modern architecture with personal interventions). In September 2012, a chamber of the British Court of freedom of information accepted this suggestion.

Espionage in 2013

Editor in Chief Alan Rusbridger wrote on August 19, 2013 in the newspaper, his hand had been pressured greatly due to the publication of the revelations Snowden by the British government. The government reportedly threatened with court action against the sheet, if hard drives would not be released or destroyed with the information. After all, you have to avoid a lawsuit which might have prevented the further reporting on the affair for months, destroyed two disks under the supervision of agents of the Government Communications Headquarters.

In addition, was the husband of Glenn Greenwald, David Miranda, was arrested at London Heathrow airport nearly nine hours. He had researched for his partner in Berlin and was on his way to this to Rio de Janeiro; the Guardian had paid for the flight. Miranda had handed over to the security agencies and Passwords reveal his laptop and his phone.

"The Guardian" and Glenn Greenwald received for your research related to the communication monitoring programs of the United States, the "Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media" in 2013, the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig.

The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly is an international, published in English newspaper the group was founded in 1919 and summarizes articles of the regular Guardian, The Observer, The Washington Post and articles translated into English by Le Monde.