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Who Owns What?

    1. 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 
TitleTypeOwnerSales
March 2017
(Mar 05)
Sunpopular tabloidNews International Newspapers Ltd
1,602,320
(3.273m)
Daily Mailmidmarket tabloidAssociated Newspapers (DMGT)
1,442,924
(2.426m)
Daily Mirrorpopular tabloidTrinity Mirror*
692,295
(1.720)
The Daily Telegraphquality broadsheetTelegraph Group Ltd
460,585
(907,329)
The Timesquality compactNews International Newspapers Ltd
440,736
(679,190)
Daily Starpopular tabloidExpress Newspapers Ltd (Northern & Shell)
436,963
(854,480)
Daily Expresspopular tabloidExpress Newspapers Ltd (Northern & Shell)
386,720
(948,375)
City AMquality compactCity AM Ltd
91,065
(2005 launch)
The Financial Times**quality broadsheetFinancial Times Ltd (Nikkei)
190,046
(419,386)
The Guardianquality Berliner Guardian Newspapers Ltd
153,431
(366,645)
itabloid 'cheapsheet'Independent Print/ Johnston Press
265,284
(2000 launch)
Independent (online only 2016)quality compactIndependent Print Ltd
n/a
(263,595)
New Daytabloid 'cheapsheet'Trinity Mirror
2016 launch and closure

2. Which companies own regional newspaper titles? Look at newspapers that you may be familiar with such as The Leicester Mercury.

Top 20 regional dailies in 2004OwnerCirculation
(Jul-Dec 04)
1Evening Standard (London)Associated Newspapers Ltd (Daily Mail and Gen. Trust)
361,340
2Express and Star
(West Midlands)		West Midlands Express & Star Group
157,783
3Manchester Evening NewsManchester Evening News Ltd (Guardian Media Group)
141,737
4Liverpool EchoLiverpool Daily Post and Echo (Trinity)
129,681
5Birmingham Evening MailBirmingham Post & Mail Ltd (Trinity)
96,143
6Belfast TelegraphBelfast Telegraph Newspapers
94,540
7Evening Times (Glasgow)Newsquest (Herald and Times) 
91,613
8Evening Chronicle(Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Newcastle Chronicle & Journal Ltd
89,074
9Aberdeen Press & JournalAberdeen Journals Ltd (Northcliffe Newspapers)
87,858
10Leicester MercuryLeicester Mercury Group Ltd
84,419
11Dundee Courier & AdvertiserDC Thomson & Co Ltd
81,002
12Shropshire StarShropshire Newspapers
79,460
13The Herald (Glasgow)Newsquest (Herald and Times)
78,746
14The Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent)Staffordshire Sentinel Newspapers Ltd
73,210
15Nottingham Evening PostNottingham Post Group Ltd
72,269
16Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) 
71,095
17Yorkshire Evening Post(Leeds)Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd
68,635
18Evening News (Edinburgh)Scotsman Publications
63,771
19Sheffield Star 
62,623
20News & Sports Mail (Portsmouth) 
60,663

































3. Do any of these companies own other media outlets? How does this link to Hesmondhalgh's ideas on Cultural Industries (see below)?

DMGT own the Daily Mail however, they also own other newspapers like The Mail On Sunday, the Mail Online and the Metro. Trinity Mirror own the Daily Mirror and New Day however, they own the Daily Record, The Sunday Mirror, the Sunday People and the Sunday Mail as well. They also own local newspapers like the Manchester Evening News, Bristol Post, Liverpool Echo and Nottingham Post. Trinity Mirror is the largest national and regional multimedia content publisher in the UK. They own 240 regional newspapers as well as big national papers. These link to Hesmondhalgh's ideas that cultural production is owned by a few conglomerates who vertically integrate across a range of media.

4. 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.

Personally, I think it is a good thing that a range of companies own different newspapers because this means that the public can get a range of views from different ideologies and different information/opinions about the same stories. If this didn't happen then the public would all be brainwashed into believing one particular view/opinion/ideology and would think that no one else can have a different opinion because one company would own every single newspaper so there wouldn't be a variety of different views/opinions/ideologies which makes ownership very important in the UK.

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