The Observer is a Journal British Hebdomadaire published all the Sunday S, and adopting on the majority of the subjects a leading line social democrat reformist and . Its sister publication is the daily newspaper The Guardian .

History

The first number, published the December 4th 1791, marked the birth of the first Sunday newspaper in the world.

In 1911, the Vicomte William Waldorf Astor (1848 - 1919) bought The Observer with the Harmsworth family. The newspaper remained Tory, as it had always been then, until in 1942, when ended the thirty-four years of James Louis Garvin with the head of the drafting. Thereafter, the newspaper declared not-partisan, which was still relatively unusual for the time.

The property of the publication passed to the son of the Viscount, Waldorf Astor, which bequeathed it in its turn with its sons in 1948. One of between-them, David Astor (1912 - 2001), would become editor association about it during 27 years. Under its direction, The Observer was the first British newspaper to be opposed to the government at the time of the Crise of Suez Canal in 1956, which cost him many readers. In 1977, the Astor family resold a newspaper strongly weakened with the American giant of the Pétrole ARCO, which resold it itself with the group Lonhro in 1981. Since June 1993, The Observer belongs to the Guardian Media Group.

External bonds

• Site of '' To observe ''
• Article of '' The Observe '' on Wikipédia
• History of the newspaper

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