Ownership of Newspapers

How many organisations own national newspapers and do any companies own more than one title? If so, are these titles linked together?

  • The Barclay Brothers own: The Daily Telegraph an The Sunday Telegraph
  • News Corporation (CEO and chairman Rupert Murdock) own: The Times and The Sunday Times
  • Scott Trust Limited own: The Guardian and The Observer
  • Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail and General Trust plc own: The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday
  • Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell own: The Daily Express and the Sunday Express
  • News Corporation - Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch own: The Sun and The Sun on Monday
  • Trinity Mirror own: Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People
  • Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell own: Daily Star and Daily Star People
Which companies own regional newspaper titles?

  • Trinity Mirror own: The Leicester Mercury, Birmingham Mail, Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News, Surrey advertiser, Bristol Post and the Herald Express
  • News Corp Australia own: The Mercury
  • Newsquest own: The Oxford Times, Oxford Mail, Reading Chronicle, Southern Daily Echo and The Press
  • Local World: Express & Echo, Cambridge News and the Lincolnshire Echo
Look at newspapers that you may be familiar with such as The Leicester Mercury. Do any of these companies own other media outlets?
  • The owner of Leicester Mercury is Trinity Mirror the largest newspaper company, they also own other newspapers like: Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday people and others, they also own regional newspapers like: Birmingham Mail, Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News and a couple other.
  • A company called Johnston Press own a lot of newspapers including: i, The Scotsman, Diss Express, Times & Citizen, Stornoway Gazette, and Wigan Evening Post.
  • The Daily Telegraph is a well known newspaper owned by a company called News Corp Australia, this isn't the only newspaper they own they also own other such as: Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail, The Sunday Times, mX, Gold Coast Bulletin, Northern Territory News, The Mercury and The Cairns Post.

 Why do you think ownership is something to be concerned about in the UK? Use Curran and Seaton's Power and Media Industries to explore this idea in your post.


Depending on who owns a newspaper they will put their opinion and view in and only let their audience read what the owner believes so they can easily brainwash people, yet people only buy what newspaper agrees with them, for example a man who is very right wing will only buy a newspaper that shares his right wing views, so he might buy the Daily Mail.


















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