The
Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply
The Mirror. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the
Sunday Mirror. Unlike other major British tabloids such as
The Sun and the
Daily Mail, the
Mirror has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the
Daily Record and the
Sunday Mail, which incorporate certain stories from the
Mirror that are of Scottish significance.