News International Ltd is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Until June 2003, they were called News International plcThe Times Online Style Guide – see entry for News International for change from plc to Ltd.
The company's major titles are published by two subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers Ltd and News Group Newspapers. These newspapers are published at a large site in Wapping in east London, near Tower Hill, which earned the nickname "Fortress Wapping" after a fierce dispute with the union to which the workforce had previously belonged. Between 1987 and 1995, News International owned News (UK) Ltd which published Today, the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour. All of these newspapers were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago.
In October 2005 News International sold TSL Education, publishers of Times Educational Supplement and other education titles, for £235m ($415m). The Times Literary Supplement, previously part of TSL Education, has been retained by News International as part of this deal.
Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper The Times (outside the UK, informally known as the London Times) and the broadsheet The Sunday Times.
Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased The Times from the Astor family and merged it with The Sunday Times, which it owned since 1959. This company was purchased by Murdoch's News International in February 1981.In 2006 an American edition of The Times was launched in New York, Boston and some other east coast U.S. cities.
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