The Guardian

==References in popular culture==
The paper's nickname ''{{Not a typo|The Grauniad}}'' (sometimes abbreviated as "Graun") originated with the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye (magazine)|Private Eye]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/16/society|title=Surely shome mishtake?|work=The Guardian|date=16 December 2000|location=London|last=Sherrin|first=Ned|author-link=Ned Sherrin|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-date=18 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318175533/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/16/society|url-status=live}}</ref> This [[anagram]] played on ''The Guardian''{{'}}s early reputation for frequent [[typographical error]]s, including misspelling its own name as ''The {{not a typo|Gaurdian}}''.<ref name=Bernhard>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/porcupinepicayun00bern_0 |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/porcupinepicayun00bern_0/page/26 26]–27 |title=Porcupine, Picayune, & Post: how newspapers get their names |first=Jim|last=Bernhard|publisher=University of Missouri Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-8262-1748-6|access-date=11 August 2013}}</ref>

The first issue of the newspaper contained a number of errors, including a notification that there would soon be some goods sold at ''{{not a typo|atction}}'' instead of ''auction''. Fewer typographical errors are seen in the paper since the end of [[hot metal typesetting|hot-metal typesetting]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=(unknown)|journal=[[Encounter (magazine)|Encounter]]|volume=58 |page=28 |publisher=Congress for Cultural Freedom |year=1982}}<span style="color:blue;"> This article refers to the paper by the facetious name "''The Grauniad''".</span></ref> One ''Guardian'' writer, [[Keith Devlin]], suggested that the high number of observed misprints was due more to the quality of the readership than the misprints' greater frequency.<ref>{{cite news|title=Prime beef: Mathematical micro-mysteries: Keith Devlin returns to prime time computation|author-link=Keith Devlin|last=Devlin|first=Keith|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=1 March 1984}} Reprinted in {{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pdZSGb5DqzsC&pg=PA42|page=[https://archive.org/details/allmaththatsfitt0000devl/page/42 42]|title=All the Math That's Fit to Print: Articles from The Guardian|chapter=Prime beef"|first=Keith|last=Devlin|author-link=Keith Devlin|year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-88385-515-7|access-date=11 August 2013|url=https://archive.org/details/allmaththatsfitt0000devl/page/42}}</ref> The newspaper was printed in Manchester until 1961 and the fact that the prints sent to London by train were the early, more error-prone, prints may have contributed to this image as well.<ref>Taylor, Geoffrey, ''Changing Faces: A History of The Guardian 1956–1988'', Fourth Estate, 1993.</ref><ref name=Bernhard /> When [[John Cole (journalist)|John Cole]] was appointed news editor by [[Alastair Hetherington]] in 1963, he sharpened the paper's comparatively "amateurish" setup.<ref name="guardian obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/08/john-cole|title=John Cole obituary|first=David|last=McKie|work=The Guardian|date=8 November 2013|access-date=8 November 2013|archive-date=10 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110073634/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/08/john-cole|url-status=live}}</ref>

Employees of ''The Guardian'' and sister paper ''The Observer'' have been depicted in the films ''[[The Fifth Estate (film)|The Fifth Estate]]'' (2013), ''[[Snowden (film)|Snowden]]'' (2016) and ''[[Official Secrets (film)|Official Secrets]]'' (2019), while [[Paddy Considine]] played a fictional ''Guardian'' journalist in the film ''[[The Bourne Ultimatum (film)|The Bourne Ultimatum]]'' (2007).