ondon's leading newspaper, The Times, has started printing its US edition which was made available to readers at more than 2,000 retail outlets in New York and New Jersey. This is the newspaper's first offshore edition, besides its existing international edition for subscribers outside the UK. The US edition is priced at a dollar and is being published in the tabloid format, adopted by the newspaper in the UK four years ago.

The decision was based on an increase in readership of its online edition, Times Online (www.timesonline.co.uk) in the US market. The newspaper will be printed at the New York Post presses and it will be edited by John Mair, editor of the International edition.... more