The Guardian

The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. It is published Monday to Saturday in the Berliner format, with left-of-centre politics. Until 1959 it was called The Manchester Guardian, reflecting its provincial origins: the paper is still occasionally referred to by this name, especially in North America, although it has been based in London since 1964 (with printing facilities in both Manchester and London).

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Newspaper - Guardian Media Group - Berliner - Left-of-centre - Politics - 1959 - North America - London

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Today The Guardian is the only British national newspaper to publish in full-colour (though not in Northern Ireland); it is also the first newspaper in the UK to be printed on the Berliner size. The Guardian has a daily circulation of around 325,000 copies (Aug 2005), as compared to sales of 855,000 for the Daily Telegraph, 642,000 for The Times, and 220,000 for The Independent. The paper is sometimes known as "The Grauniad" (coined by Private Eye), as a result of frequent typographical errors for which it became infamous in the era before computer typesetting.

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Northern Ireland - Daily circulation - Daily Telegraph - The Times - The Independent - Private Eye

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The Guardian Unlimited web site won the Best Newspaper category in the 2005 Webby Awards, an award described by Time magazine as the online Oscar, beating the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Variety. http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php#webby_entry_newspaper It has been the winner for six years in a row of the British Newspaper Awards for Best Daily Newspaper on the World Wide Web (the pcsdotNet Award http://www.newspaperawards.co.uk/). The site won an Eppy award from the US-based magazine Editor & Publisher in 2000 for the best-designed newspaper online service. http://royal.reliaserve.com/eppy/winners2000.html

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Guardian Unlimited - 2005 - Webby Awards - ''Time'' magazine - Oscar - New York Times - Washington Post - Wall Street Journal - Variety - British Newspaper Awards - Eppy - Editor & Publisher - 2000

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