Press in Great Britain

Mass Media in the UK: Newspapers

Fleet Street. Fleet Street has been the home of the British press for 300 years. Here are published almost all Britain’s national newspapers. Here also are the headquarters of many magazines, foreign and provincial press bureaus, international news agencies

{81 A590 B3-7378-41 B6-8 DAA-E8 B60 A608445} National Newspapers “Qualities or Heavies”“Populars or Yellow Press”Dailies. Sundays. Dailies. Sundays. The Daily Telegraph. The Sunday Telegraph. The Sun. The Sunday Mirror. The Guardian. The Observer. The Daily Mirror. The Mail on Sunday. The Times. The Sunday Times. The Daily Mail. The Sunday Express. The Independent. The Daily Express. The People. The Financial Times. The Daily Star. The News of the World

{81 A590 B3-7378-41 B6-8 DAA-E8 B60 A608445}“Qualities”National Dailies. Title, Foundation Date. Circulation The Daily Telegraph (1855)1,138,000 The Guardian (1821)470,000 The Times (1785)450,000 The Independent (1886)375,000 The Financial Times (1888)206,000

The Daily Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the UK and internationally. In January 2009 the Telegraph was the highest selling British broadsheet newspaper.

The Guardian. The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. It is unique among other British newspapers in being owned by a foundation (the Scott Trust). Founded by textile traders and merchants, The Guardian had a reputation as an “organ of the middle class”. It’s nickname is Grauniad because the paper has a reputation for frequent typographical errors.

The Times. The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The newspaper was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years but switched to compact size in 2004 partly in an attempt to appeal to younger readers and partly to appeal to commuters using public transport.

The Independent. The Independent has a reputation for its emphasis on views, rather than on news..

The Financial Times The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. The FT specialises in business and financial news. The FT is the only paper in the UK providing full daily reports on the London Stock Exchange and world markets.

The Sun The Sun is a daily tabloid published in the UK and Ireland. It has the highest circulation of any daily newspaper in the world. The Sun relies heavily on stories and scandals involving celebrities and the entertainment industry. It contains sections such as Bizarre (pop music stories and gossip) and TV Biz (television stories, concentrating on soap operas and reality TV).

THE DAILY MIRRORThe Daily Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. Twice in history its title was changed to read simply The Mirror. It contains cartoon strips, comics, a letters page, a problem page, “shock issues” intended to highlight a particular news story.

The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is a British daily middle market tabloid newspaper. It is the UK’s second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. It was from the outset, a newspaper for women, and is still the only British newspaper whose readership is more than 50% female.

The Daily Express. The Daily Express is a conservative British tabloid newspaper. The Daily Express select front-page stories that follow recurring themes, and often ignore the major news of the day in favour of spurious stories. During 2009 and 2010, health stories were very popular. For example, they featured the discovery of rather unusual potential cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease or cancer. The usual headlines: “Sunshine vitamins cut risk of cancer”. The Daily Express also features global warming stories.