"The Guardian" is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as "The Manchester Guardian", and changed its name in 1959.

Since 2018, the paper's main newsprint sections have been published in tabloid format (a tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet). As of February 2020, its print edition had a daily circulation of 126,879. The newspaper has an online edition, TheGuardian.com, as well as two international websites, "Guardian Australia" (founded in 2013) and "Guardian US" (founded in 2011).

As of March 2020, the journal claims to be "the first major global news organisation to institute an outright ban on taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels."

Chief among the notable "scoops" obtained by the paper was the 2011 "News International phone-hacking scandal" — and in particular the hacking of the murdered English teenager Milly Dowler's phone. The investigation led to the closure of the "News of the World", the UK's best-selling Sunday newspaper and one of the highest-circulation newspapers in history.

In 2016, "The Guardian" led an investigation into the "Panama Papers", exposing then–Prime Minister David Cameron's links to offshore bank accounts. It has been named "newspaper of the year" four times at the annual British Press Awards: most recently in 2014, for its reporting on government surveillance.

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