News of the World
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations.[4] It was established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies.[5] The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969, it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Limited. In 1984, as News Limited reorganised into News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, the newspaper transformed into a tabloid and became the Sunday sister paper of The Sun.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:23.8 | Citation Needed, a podcast where we choose a subject, |
| 0:26.7 | a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts. |
| 0:30.2 | This is the internet, and that's how it works now. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Heath, and for today's discussion of the news game, |
| 0:35.9 | I'll be the kid with the hat yelling extry, extry. |
| 0:40.3 | And I actually have one of those hats. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm joined by the rest of the journalism team. |
| 0:45.3 | We have the chief editor, the investigative reporter, the muscle, and the grease man. |
| 0:51.5 | Cecil, Marsh, Tom, and Eel. |
| 0:53.2 | I just wish Eli would do one big meltdown |
| 0:55.4 | an episode instead of 25 micro meltdowns. |
| 0:57.8 | It'd be so much easier to cut that. |
| 0:59.1 | That's true. |
| 0:59.9 | It's true. |
| 1:00.4 | Okay. |
| 1:00.7 | And I know I'm not the chief editor |
| 1:02.5 | because I'm pretty sure that was a euphemism |
| 1:04.8 | for what your people did you in the Trail of Tears. |
| 1:07.4 | Jesus. |
| 1:09.1 | I don't even know how to follow a joke from a |
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