The Press (Newspapers)

It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6,580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a day.

Newspapers contains articles of current events, informative articles, diverse features, editorials, and advertising. newspaper is a periodical publication containing news regarding current events, informative articles, diverse features, editorials, and advertising.

Size, Shape and Structure

The newspaper industry employs approximately 52,000 people across the UK. The current revenue in this industry is £5billion yet the annual growth has reduces to -6.6%.

This is because in the modern day people much prefer digital news and news from the internet. There is less demand for printed news due to the digital technology being a faster and reliable place to find everything you want to know.

In terms of company size, the industry is relatively polarized with 7.5% of enterprises having more than 250 employees and 72.5% of enterprises having less than 10 employees.

• Daily Express, was founded in 1900, it’s political alignment is Conservative is a newspaper owned by Richard Desmond, in 2011 June the daily express the average daily circulation of 625,952. Richard Desmond is also the owner of Northern & Shell.

National Newspapers

Northern & Shell also produces the Daily Star, Daily Sunday Star and Sunday Express. Richard Desmond’s Net worth is nine hundred and fifty million pounds, in us dollars his net worth is one point fifty three billion dollars. Furthermore Richard Desmond owns many other companies for different Platforms such as television channels like, Channel 5, Television X and Red Hot TV as Richard Desmond owns Portland TV & Channel 5 Television network. The editor for the Daily Express is Hugh Whittow. Hugh Whittow has been the editor of many newspapers across Britain; Evening News, Daily Star, The Sun

Daily Mail, was Founded on the 4th of may 1896. it’s political alignment is Conservative. It happens to be the best selling daily newspaper in the UK only to be second to the Sun. The Daily Mail is owned by daily mail and general trust. Daily Mail and General Trust is one of the Largest media conglomerate in the whole of Europe. Daily Mail and General Trust own other national newspapers within the UK as well as outside the UK. The national newspaper which Daily Mail and General Trust own within the uk are Metro. The ‘’Sister’’ newspaper of Daily Mail is the Mail on Sunday

National NewspapersNewspapers are also a type of a media platform that earns their money from advertisement. Although it is not as much as TV they earn a lot from 100’s of different advertisements from tutors and window cleaners and car hires.

Also newspapers earn their money from the people who buy their newspapers everyday. Therefore the money depends a lot on whether the newspaper is big and the amount of readers they have nationally

--Some examples of national newspaper are---The Sun -The Guardian -Daily mail --Some examples of local are:---Camden New Journal-Morpeth Herald

Ownership of Companies

Daily mail is a tabloid newspaper that is owned by general trust. The general trust also own DMG Media. DMG Media is the national newspaper arm and website publisher of DMGT and publishes the following titles:

-Daily Mail-The Mail on Sunday-Ireland on Sunday-Metro

Potential Disadvantage if only a few owners owning a lot of newspapers

A disadvantage is that the newspapers will all contain biased views and there will not be a balanced amount of views for people to have there own opinions on different stories.

Although there are various different newspapers, if there's a few owners, then people may not be able to have there own views on each story. Rupert Murdoch owns lots of news outlets (both press and TV) all around the world). This means he can help promote ideas and political interests that he approves of and people might not get balanced view points.