Ownership and Regulation
Look at the newspapers in the UK and research who owns what titles. Answer the following questions on your own blog.
Depending on who owns a newspaper they will put their opinion and view in and only let their audience read what the owner believes so they can easily brainwash people, yet people only buy what newspaper agrees with them, for example a man who is very right wing will only buy a newspaper that shares his right wing views, so he might buy the Daily Mail.
- How many organisations own national newspapers and do any companies own more than one title? If so, are these titles linked together?
| UK national newspapers, ranked by 2017 sales | |||
| Title | Type | Owner | Sales March 2017 (Mar 05) |
| Sun | popular tabloid | News International Newspapers Ltd |
1,602,320
(3.273m) |
| Daily Mail | midmarket tabloid | Associated Newspapers (DMGT) |
1,442,924
(2.426m) |
| Daily Mirror | popular tabloid | Trinity Mirror* |
692,295
(1.720) |
| The Daily Telegraph | quality broadsheet | Telegraph Group Ltd |
460,585
(907,329) |
| The Times | quality compact | News International Newspapers Ltd |
440,736
(679,190) |
| Daily Star | popular tabloid | Express Newspapers Ltd (Northern & Shell) |
436,963
(854,480) |
| Daily Express | popular tabloid | Express Newspapers Ltd (Northern & Shell) |
386,720
(948,375) |
| City AM | quality compact | City AM Ltd |
91,065
(2005 launch) |
| The Financial Times** | quality broadsheet | Financial Times Ltd (Nikkei) |
190,046
(419,386) |
| The Guardian | quality Berliner | Guardian Newspapers Ltd |
153,431
(366,645) |
| i | tabloid 'cheapsheet' | Independent Print/ Johnston Press |
265,284
(2000 launch) |
| Independent (online only 2016) | quality compact | Independent Print Ltd |
n/a
(263,595) |
| New Day | tabloid 'cheapsheet' | Trinity Mirror |
2016 launch and closure
|
- Which companies own regional newspaper titles? Look at newspapers that you may be familiar with such as The Leicester Mercury.
Trinity Mirror own: The Leicester Mercury, Birmingham Mail, Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News, Surrey advertiser, Bristol Post and the Herald Express
News Corp Australia own: The Mercury
Newsquest own: The Oxford Times, Oxford Mail, Reading Chronicle, Southern Daily Echo and The Press
Local World: Express & Echo, Cambridge News and the Lincolnshire Echo
News Corp Australia own: The Mercury
Newsquest own: The Oxford Times, Oxford Mail, Reading Chronicle, Southern Daily Echo and The Press
Local World: Express & Echo, Cambridge News and the Lincolnshire Echo
- Do any of these companies own other media outlets? How does this link to Hesmondhalgh's ideas on Cultural Industries?
The owner of Leicester Mercury is Trinity Mirror the largest newspaper company, they also own other newspapers like: Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday people and others, they also own regional newspapers like: Birmingham Mail, Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News and a couple other.
A company called Johnston Press own a lot of newspapers including: i, The Scotsman, Diss Express, Times & Citizen, Stornoway Gazette, and Wigan Evening Post.
The Daily Telegraph is a well known newspaper owned by a company called News Corp Australia, this isn't the only newspaper they own they also own other such as: Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail, The Sunday Times, mX, Gold Coast Bulletin, Northern Territory News, The Mercury and The Cairns Post.
A company called Johnston Press own a lot of newspapers including: i, The Scotsman, Diss Express, Times & Citizen, Stornoway Gazette, and Wigan Evening Post.
The Daily Telegraph is a well known newspaper owned by a company called News Corp Australia, this isn't the only newspaper they own they also own other such as: Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail, The Sunday Times, mX, Gold Coast Bulletin, Northern Territory News, The Mercury and The Cairns Post.
- Why do you think ownership is something to be concerned about in the UK? Use Curran and Seaton's Power and Media Industries to explore this idea in your post.
Depending on who owns a newspaper they will put their opinion and view in and only let their audience read what the owner believes so they can easily brainwash people, yet people only buy what newspaper agrees with them, for example a man who is very right wing will only buy a newspaper that shares his right wing views, so he might buy the Daily Mail.
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