I dont expect anyone reading this reads the S*n (I certainly don’t) but 17th November 2025 marked the 56th anniversary of the first edition of the paper under Murdoch’s ownership (it had a pre-history which I’ll post about later).
The Guardian published a report about the preparations for the new paper including an interview with the first Editor Larry Lamb.
The tabloid style was there from the start with the headline to the first Editorial being ‘Reach for the Sun’. The Guardian also noted that the paper had no specialist editors (Defence etc) and no Foreign Editor. In short Murdoch started as he meant to go on.
There were few job losses in London but the Manchester operation of the old Sun was shut with no jobs kept on.
The Sun had been sold by the owners of the Mirror, IPC and from the first issues of the Murdoch Sun the competition was on.
At that time, 56 years ago, both papers supported Labour and the new Sun carried an interview with Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
The tabloid style has lasted over 5 decades, the political allegiance soon switched
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