The guardian is a tabloid style daily newspaper which was founded on the 5th May 1821 (199 years ago). It was originally called the Manchester Guardian however was renamed in 1959. The paper was founded by John Edward-Taylor, and it's current chief editor is Katharine Viner. The Guardian is in a compact format now, but has previously been berliner, and was originally broadsheet.
The Guardian has two sister papers, The Observer - which is published on Sundays and was founded in 1791, however was taken over buy the guardian media group in 1952, it is the longest running Sunday paper - and The Guardian Weekly - the first edition was published in 1919, this paper takes different stories from the daily version and from the observer and puts them into one weekly paper.
The political alignment of the Guardian (and it's two sister papers) is center-left.
Just like the Daily Mail, the Guardian has also been caught up in a number of different controversies including accusations of antisemitism, misleading stories (for example the Julian Assange statement) and the hacking of murdered teen Millie Dowlings phone in 2011.
The Guardian has a website however it is just a digital copy of the paper and doesn't have a different editor like The Mail Online does.
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