Friday 18 September 2015

News institutions

BBC news - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
  • founded October 18 1922
  • Founded by John Reith
  • generates about 120 hours of radio and TV output each day
  • Annual budget of £350 million a year
  • it has 3500 staff members
  • 2000 being journalists
  • website launched in November 1977
  • website has 14 million readers per month
  • the headquarters is in central London

Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
  • owned by Daily Mail and general Trust plc
  • Founded in 1922
  • recently added news to Snapchat
  • owned by Jonathan Harmsworth
  • The daily mail on Sunday was launched in 1982
  • Second half on 2013 had 54.77% female readership
  • average circulation of 1,708,006 copies a day
  • average daily readership of 3.951 million
  •  website has more than 100 million viewers per month

The Sun - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/
  • Owned by Ruper Murdoch
  • CEO is Mike Darcey 
  • Founded February 1981
  • Parent organization is News corp
  • 47% of sign-ups are on mobile
  • Subscribers enjoy print and digital
  • They have 13.6 million readers a week
  • 2.8 million social media footprint
  • had big debate about page 3 which was recently removed
Sky News - http://news.sky.com/
  • launched February 5 1989
  • owned by Sky plc
  • distributed by Fox international channels
  • originally had a £40 million budget
  • Works internationally including Australia, Ireland and Arabia
  • it runs 24 hours a day

Sky news app - 
  • Available for iPhone and android
  • it is free to download 
  • had over 3 million downloads for apple
  • only has a 1 star rating in iTunes
  • has a 4 star review on Google play
  • Is also on Snapchat

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