1. News corp subsidiaries
News UK Fox news company
Star india Fox entertainment group
Sky Italia Fox 21 television
Sun (motorcycle)
2. Mirror Group subsidiaries
Local world Daily mirror
Sunday mirror Daily records/sunday mail
Western mail The people
The new day
3. News Corp Structure
There is only one person in charge of the news corp
company, Rupert Murdoch, and he is the executive
chairman. His son , Lachlan Murdoch is the co-chairman.
He is the founder of News Corp. The company is a publicly
traded company, this means that there are several
investors i.e. Rupert James Thomson.
Rupert
Murdoch
Rupert James
Thomson
4. Mirror Group/Trinity Mirror
structure
There are 8 people that are in charge of the
trinity mirror, they are Simon Fox (chief
executive), Vjay Vaghela (group financial
director), David Grigson (chairman) then Lee
Ginsberg, Helen Stevenson, Dr David Kelly,
Steve Hatch and Olivia Stefeild are all
non-executive
directors.
Simon Fox Vjay Vaghela
David Grigson Lee Ginsberg
Helen Stevenson Dr David Kelly Steve Hatch Olivia Stefeild
5. Pros and Cons of having one company delivering
the news.
Pros
● A company is able to target a larger target audience
● Different news outlets have different ways of distributing news
● Everyone can access the news in different ways (e.g. TV, Print, Online and
Radio)
● The distribution of breaking news is faster
Cons
● There will always be the same view, (left or right wing view)
● TV, Radio and print news isn’t breaking news
● The news can be restricted because of its content
● What we see is controlled
