In addition to the weekly Observer Magazine colour supplement which is still present every Sunday, for several years each issue of The Observer came with a different free monthly magazine. On 27 February 2005, The Observer Blog was launched. In 2003, The Observer interviewed the Iraqi colonel who had arrested and interrogated Bazoft and who was convinced that Bazoft was not a spy. įarzad Bazoft, a journalist for The Observer, was executed in Iraq in 1990 on charges of spying. It became part of the Guardian Media Group in June 1993, after a rival bid to acquire it by The Independent was rejected. In 1977, the Astors sold the ailing newspaper to US oil giant Atlantic Richfield (now called ARCO) who sold it to Lonrho plc in 1981. He remained in the position for 27 years, during which time he turned it into a trust-owned newspaper employing, among others, George Orwell, Paul Jennings and C. Ownership passed to Waldorf's sons in 1948, with David taking over as editor. Northcliffe sold the paper to William Waldorf Astor in 1911, who transferred ownership to his son Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor four years later. Upon Frederick's death in 1903, the paper was purchased by the newspaper magnate Lord Northcliffe. She remained as editor for thirteen years, combining it in 1893 with the editorship of The Sunday Times, a newspaper that she had also bought. Henry Duff Traill took over the editorship after Dicey's departure, only to be replaced in 1891 by Frederick's wife, Rachel Beer, of the Sassoon family. Though Beer's son Frederick became the owner upon Julius's death in 1880, he had little interest in the newspaper and was content to leave Dicey as editor until 1889. In 1870, wealthy businessman Julius Beer bought the paper and appointed Edward Dicey as editor, whose efforts succeeded in reviving circulation. After Doxat retired in 1857, Clement's heirs sold the paper to Joseph Snowe, who also took over the editor's chair. The paper continued to receive government subsidies during this period in 1819, of the approximately 23,000 copies of the paper distributed weekly, approximately 10,000 were given away as "specimen copies", distributed by postmen who were paid to deliver them to "lawyers, doctors, and gentlemen of the town." Ĭlement maintained ownership of The Observer until his death in 1852. ![]() Seven years later, the brothers sold The Observer to William Innell Clement, a newspaper proprietor who owned a number of publications. In 1807, the brothers decided to relinquish editorial control, naming Lewis Doxat as the new editor. As a result, the paper soon took a strong line against radicals such as Thomas Paine, Francis Burdett and Joseph Priestley. When this failed, Bourne's brother (a wealthy businessman) made an offer to the government, which also refused to buy the paper but agreed to subsidise it in return for influence over its editorial content. Though early editions purported editorial independence, Bourne attempted to cut his losses and sell the title to the government. Believing that the paper would be a means of wealth, Bourne instead soon found himself facing debts of nearly £1,600. Bourne, was the world's first Sunday newspaper. The first issue, published on 4 December 1791 by W.S. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. It is a sister paper to The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly, whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays. The Observer (International Edition) ISSN Originally broadsheet, Berliner (2006–2018), Sunday newspaper (If Christmas Day falls on Sunday instead of a normal edition a special Christmas edition would be published on Saturday which is Christmas Eve) The Observer front page on 21 January 2018
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