The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in as The Manchester Guardian and changed its name in , [ 5 ] followed by a move to London. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in As of July [update] , its print edition had a daily circulation of , The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion, [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and the term " Guardian reader" is used to imply a stereotype of a person with modern progressive , left-wing or " politically correct " views.
It was also reported to be the most-read of the UK's "quality newsbrands", including digital editions; other "quality" brands included The Times , The Daily Telegraph , The Independent , and the i. While The Guardian ' s print circulation is in decline, the report indicated that news from The Guardian , including that reported online, reaches more than 23 million UK adults each month. Chief among the notable " scoops " obtained by the paper was the News International phone-hacking scandal βand in particular the hacking of the murdered English teenager Milly Dowler 's phone.
It has been named "newspaper of the year" four times at the annual British Press Awards : most recently in , for its reporting on government surveillance.
The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle , a group of non-conformist businessmen. They do not toil, neither do they spin, but they live better than those that do. The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, and all of the Little Circle wrote articles for the new paper.
The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called The Manchester Guardian "the foul prostitute and dirty parasite of the worst portion of the mill-owners". Of the Ten Hours Bill, the paper doubted whether in view of the foreign competition "the passing of a law positively enacting a gradual destruction of the cotton manufacture in this kingdom would be a much less rational procedure.
