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The Times was founded by John Walter on the 1st of January 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register. It adopted its current name on the 1st of January 1788, after 940 editions under the original title.
The Times is owned by News UK, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp run by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch's News International purchased The Times and The Sunday Times from the Thomson Corporation in 1981.
The Times commissioned Times New Roman in 1931. Victor Lardent, an artist in the newspaper's advertising department, created it under the direction of Stanley Morison. The typeface first appeared in the issue of the 3rd of October 1932 and was released for commercial sale one year later.
When the paywall launched in October 2010, unique monthly visitors to The Times website fell by 87 percent, from 21 million to 2.7 million within one month. By September 2024, the paper had grown to 600,000 digital subscribers.
On the 8th of May 1920, The Times published an editorial under editor Wickham Steed endorsing The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document and calling Jews the world's greatest danger. The following year, Times correspondent Philip Graves exposed the Protocols as a forgery, and the paper retracted the editorial.
The Times had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020. In January 2019, its circulation stood at 417,298. The Sunday Times, its sister paper, had a circulation of 647,622 in the same March 2020 period.