Media

Department of British study

faculty of world studiesuniversity of Tehran

Professor: Dr. Shokrkhah

Elham Abedini

The Times

The Times• 1. owner of “ the times “• 2. content of “ the times ”• 3. Readers of “ the times “• 4. channels of “ the times “• 5. effects of “ the times “

whoRupert Murdock!

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register (it became The Times on 1 January 1788).

wholly owned by the News corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch!

Its sister paper: The Sunday times

who• 1. The Times was founded by publisher John Walter on the first of

January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register• 2. In 1809, Paul Stoddert was appointed general editor, replaced in

1817 by Thomas Barnes.• 3. The third John Walter, the founder's grandson, succeeded his father

in 1847. • 4. The Times faced financial extinction in 1890 under Arthur Frazer

Walter, but it was rescued by an energetic editor, Charles Fredric Moberly Bell.

• 5. In 1922,John Jacob Astor ,son of the 1st Viscount Astor, bought The Times from the Northcliffe estate.

• 6. In 1967, members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson, The Thomson corporation merged it with The Sunday Times to form Times Newspapers Limited.

• 7. In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International.

Says what• The Times features news for the first half of the paper with the

leading articles on the second page, the Opinion/Comment section begins after the first news section with world news normally following this. The business pages begin on the center spread, and are followed by The Register, containing obituaries, Court & Social section, and related material. The sport section is at the end of the main paper. The Times current prices are £1 for the daily edition and £1.50 for the Saturday edition.

• Some columnists in The Times are connected to the Conservative Party such as Daniel Finkelstein, Tim Montgomerie and Matthew Parris, but there are also columnists connected to the Labour Party such as David Aaronovitch, Phil Collins and Rod Liddle.

Says what• 1945: although it was increasingly critical of the

Conservative Party's campaign, it did not advocate a vote for any one party

• Next 5 elections: It supported both the Conservatives and the Liberal Party

• 1974: expressly supporting a Con-Lib coalition. • 1997:The paper then backed the Conservatives solidly.• 2001 : The Times declared its support for Tony Blair’s

Labor government• 2005: labor party• 2010: conservative (they forced to make the coalition)

To whom• 1981: The Times had an average daily sale of 282,000 copies in

comparison to the 1.4 million daily sales of its traditional rival The Daily Telegraph.

• 2005 :The Times sold an average of 691,283 copies per day, the second-highest of any British "quality" newspaper (after The Daily Telegraph, which had a circulation of 903,405 copies in the period)

• By June 2012, average daily circulation of The Times had fallen to 400,120 copies, compared to The Daily Telegraph's 573,674

• The Sunday Times has a significantly higher circulation than The Times, and sometimes outsells The Sunday Telegraph. As of January 2013, The Times has a circulation of 399,339 and The Sunday Times of 885,612.

• In a 2009 national readership survey The Times was found to have the highest number of ABC1 25–44 readers and the largest numbers of readers in London of any of the "quality" papers.

Which channel• The Times of India (founded in 1838), • The Straits Times (1845),• The New York Times (1851),• The Irish Times (1859),• the Los Angeles Times (1881), • The Seattle Times (1891),• The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900),• The Canberra Times (1926),• The Times (Malta) (1935)• The Times of Israel (2012). • In these countries and others, the newspaper is often

referred to as The Times of London

Which channels• Times2

• The Times' main supplement is the times2, featuring various lifestyle columns. It was discontinued on 1 March 2010 but reintroduced on 11 October 2010 after negative feedback.

• The supplement contains arts and lifestyle features, TV and radio listings and reviews.

• The Game

• The Game is included in the newspaper on Mondays, and details all the weekend's football activity (Premier League and Football League Championship, League One and League Two.) The Scottish edition of The Game also includes results

and analysis from Scottish Premier League games.

Which channels• Saturday supplements

• The Saturday edition of The Times contains a variety of supplements. These supplements were relaunched in January 2009 as: Sport, Weekend (including travel and lifestyle features), Saturday Review (arts, books, and ideas), The Times Magazine (columns on various topics), and Playlist (an entertainment listings guide).

• Saturday Review is the first regular supplement published in broadsheet format since the paper switched to a compact size in 2004.

• At the beginning of summer 2011 Saturday Review switched to the tabloid format

• Online presence

• The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk. There are now two websites: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content. There are also iPad and Android editions of both newspapers.

Which channels• Times Literary Supplement

• The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to The Times, becoming a separately-paid-for weekly literature and society magazine in 1914.

• The Times Science Review

• Between 1951 and 1966 The Times published a separately-paid-for quarterly science review, The Times Science Review.[

• The Times started a new, free, monthly science magazine, Eureka, in October 2009.

• Times Atlases

• Times Atlases have been produced since 1895. They are currently produced by the Collins Bartholomew imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The flagship product is The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World.

Which channels

• Sponsorships

• The Times, along with the British Film Institute, sponsors the "The Times" bfi London Film Festival (British film institute). It also sponsors the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature at Asia House, London.

Effects

Leveson Inquiry: Confession that Times journalist hacked NightJack

NightJack blogger Richard Horton to sue The Times over email hacking

Turkey's Erdogan threatens to sue Times for publishing critical letter

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