The Guardian

The Guardian is a daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom. It was originally known as The Manchester Guardian when it was established in 1821, but the name was changed in 1959. The Guardian, along with its sister publications The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, is a member of the Guardian Media Group, which is owned by the Scott Trust and headquartered in London. "To guarantee the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity, as well as to protect the journalistic freedom and liberal principles of The Guardian free from commercial or political influence," the trust's mission statement reads. It was transformed into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution drafted so that The Guardian would continue to enjoy the same safeguards that were put into the Scott Trust's structure by its founders at the time of conversion. In contrast to most media companies, profits are re-invested in journalism rather than given to the owners or shareholders.

Alan Rusbridger retired in 2015, and Katharine Viner became the new editor-in-chief. Several of the paper's major newspaper sections have been published in tabloid size from the beginning of 2018. According to its print edition's daily circulation statistics as of February 2020, 126,879. It has an online version, TheGuardian.com, and two foreign websites, Guardian Australia (established in 2013) and Guardian United States (formed in 2008). (founded in 2011). In general, the paper's readership is on the left-of-center spectrum of British political thought, and the phrase "Guardian reader" is used to connote a caricature of someone who holds liberal, left-wing, or "politically correct" beliefs. Since there were so many typographical mistakes while manual typesetting was still in use in the 1960s, Private Eye magazine has nicknamed the newspaper the "Grauniad," which is still used by the editors on occasion to make fun of themselves and their work today.