This document discusses newspapers, including their content, production process, size and readership trends. It then provides details about the newspaper industry in the UK, including employment figures and revenue. It also gives an overview of some national newspapers in the UK, their owners and political alignments.

1. The Press (Newspapers)
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.
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.

2. 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.

3. National Newspapers
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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
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625,952. Richard Desmond is also the owner of Northern & Daily Mail, was Founded on the 4 of
may 1896. it’s political alignment is
Shell.
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
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
theukare Metro. The ‘’Sister’’
newspaper of Daily Mail is the Mail
on Sunday

4. National Newspapers
Newspapers 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
--Some examples of local are:--Camden New Journal
-Morpeth Herald
-Daily mail

5. 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

6. 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.