Murdoch tells UK: ‘Every day’s a Sun day’

Sunday and confirmed that the editor of the weekday paper, Dominic Mohan, would also edit the Sun on Sunday.
A News International spokeswoman said in an email to AFP on Monday: “Dominic (Mohan) is the editor and yes, Rupert Murdoch is overseeing the launch.”
Murdoch (80), flew into Britain last week to announce the creation of the new paper and to promise demoralised staff he would stand by them despite the arrest of senior Sun journalists over bribery allegations.
“Rupert Murdoch said during his visit on Friday that a new Sunday title would be published ‘very soon’ — and that is a week from today,” the company’s chief executive Tom Mockridge said in an internal memo to staff on Sunday.
“Rupert will be staying in London to oversee the launch.
“We will have to act quickly over the coming days.
“This is our moment. I am sure every one of us will seize the opportunity to pull together and deliver a great new dawn for The Sun this Sunday.”
It will replace the News of the World tabloid, the top-selling Sunday newspaper which Murdoch shut down in July amid a spiralling scandal over the hacking of voice mails belonging to celebrities, politicians and crime victims.
The Sun, which sells 2,5-million copies a day, splashed the news in black, white and red all over the front page of yesterday’s edition, saying: “The Sun Next Sunday.”
Inside it carried a full page of some of its best known front covers and a picture of Murdoch examining The Sun coming off the presses in 1969.
The story had the headline: “Every da’s a Sun day”.
“Forty-three years ago when Rupert Murdoch first launched a new-look Sun, we promised that YOU, our readers, would be at the heart of all we do,” said the tabloid.
“Now we are answering your clamour for a Sunday edition of the nation’s favourite paper.
“You told us it could not come soon enough, and next weekend the historic new edition of The Sun will rise.”
Among the covers it left out were “Gotcha”, printed after the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands War, and “Up Yours Delor”, a 1990 example when the paper criticised Jacques Delors, the French chief of the then-European Common Market.
Mohan called the launch of the new Sunday paper “a truly historic moment in newspaper publishing”.
The paper’s future was clouded by the arrests last weekend of five of its senior journalists on allegations of bribery, in addition to five former and current staff members arrested on similar charges since November. — AFP.