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BBC News
BBC News, formerly BBC News and Current
Affairs, is the department led by Helen Boaden within the BBC responsible for
the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC
television, radio and online. Producing 120 hours of output daily, the
organisation is the largest broadcasting news gatherer in the world while
carrying out the key objective of the BBC's Royal Charter to "collect news and
information in any part of the world and in any manner that may be thought fit".
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Daily Express
The Daily Express is a conservative,
middle-market British tabloid newspaper. It is the flagship title of Express
Newspapers and is currently owned by Richard Desmond. As of February 2007, it
has a circulation of 761,637. Circulation figures according to the Audited
Bureau of Circulations, in October 2007 show gross sales of its long standing
rival the Daily Mail are at 2,400,143, compared with 789,867 for the Daily
Express. This is an increase of almost a third over the sales figures for the
Daily Mail 25 years ago, when it sold 1.87 million copies a day. By comparison,
the Daily Express was selling over 2 million copies a day, so its sales have
reduced by 60% over the same period.
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Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British newspaper,
currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1896 by Lord
Northcliffe, it is Britain's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The
Sun. Its sister paper, The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982. An Irish version
of the paper was launched on 6 February 2006. The Daily Mail was Britain's first
daily newspaper aimed at what is now considered the middle-market and the first
to sell 1 million copies a day.
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Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror, often referred to simply
as The Mirror, is a British tabloid daily newspaper founded in 1903. It is the
only British national paper to have consistently supported the Labour Party
since 1945. During a couple of periods in its history — 1985 to 1987 and 1997 to
2002 — the front-page masthead was changed to The Mirror.
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Daily Star
The Daily Star is a daily British tabloid
newspaper. Its editor is Dawn Neesom. She was promoted to the post in December
2003 after the previous editor, Peter Hill, moved to become editor of the Daily
Express. Previously she had been an executive on the paper in charge of the
features department.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British
international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in
London that has had a strong influence on the financial policies of the British
government. The periodical is printed at 24 sites. Its main rival as a daily
financial newspaper is the New York City-based Wall Street Journal, which also
publishes several international editions.
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guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk, formerly known as Guardian
Unlimited, is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. It contains
nearly all of the content of the newspapers The Guardian and The Observer, as
well as a substantial body of web-only work produced by its own staff, including
a rolling news service. It is one of the world's leading online newspapers, with
15.9 million unique users in December 2007. On 7 July 2005, following the London
bombings, 1.3 million unique users visited the site and a total of 7.8 million
pages were viewed, a record for guardian.co.uk.
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News of the World
The News of the World is a British tabloid
newspaper published every Sunday. It is published by News Group Newspapers of
News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation,
and can be considered the Sunday equivalent of The Sun. The newspaper tends to
concentrate on celebrity-based scoops and populist news.
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PR Newswire
PR Newswire is a company that sends news
releases on behalf of organizations to the media, general public and the
financial community. The company is headquartered in the U.S. with offices
around the world. Its customers include public relations and investor relations
practitioners at both the agency and corporate level, as well as numerous
non-profits and government agencies. Some marketing and advertising
professionals also use PR Newswire since it offers multimedia capabilities to
target consumers directly.
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Reuters
Reuters Group plc was a financial market
data provider and news service that provided reports from around the world to
newspapers and broadcasters. However, news reporting accounted for less than 10%
of the company's income. Its main focus was on supplying the financial markets
with information and trading products.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a British
broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1855. Excepting the Financial Times, it is the
only remaining daily newspaper printed on traditional newsprint in the
Broadsheet format in the United Kingdom, as most other broadsheet publications
have converted to the smaller tabloid/compact or Berliner formats. Its sister
paper, The Sunday Telegraph, was founded in 1961. In October 2007, the Telegraph
was the highest selling British quality paper, with a certified average daily
circulation of 882,413. This compared with a circulation of 642,895 for The
Times, 240,134 for The Independent, and 364,513 for The Guardian. According to a
MORI survey conducted in 2004, 61% of Telegraph readers support the Conservative
Party.
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The Economist
The Economist is an English-language
weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist
Newspaper Ltd and edited in London. Continuous publication began under founder
James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a "newspaper"
(and refers to its journalists as "correspondents"), each issue appears on
glossy paper, like a newsmagazine. In 2007, it reported an average circulation
of just over 1.3 million copies per issue, about half of which are sold in
North America.
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The Guardian Weekly
The Guardian Weekly is a weekly newspaper
published by the Guardian Media Group, and is one of the world's oldest
international newspapers. It was founded with the aim of advancing the cause of
democracy in post-war Germany. Its first edition was printed a week after the
signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and included the following as a
statement of mission: "We aim at presenting what is best and most interesting in
the Guardian, what is most distinctive and independent of time, in a compact
weekly form".
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The Independent
The Independent is a British compact
newspaper published by Sir Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is
nicknamed the Indie, with the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, being
the Sindie. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily
newspapers, with a circulation of 240,116 in August 2007 according to the UK
Audited Bureau of Circulations; a 5.37% drop from November 2006. The Sunday
edition has bucked its trend of faring worse than its daily sister; up 1.63% in
the last nine months to August 2007 at 216,371. This first rise for a
considerable time would seem to reflect a buoying effect of the June 2007
relaunch. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004
British Press Awards. The Independent is politically left-leaning.
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The Sun
The Sun is a tabloid daily newspaper
published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with the highest
circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at
3,126,866 copies daily in October 2007 and with a daily readership of 7,909,000
in H1 2007. It reaches 2.9 million readers in the ABC1 demographic and 5.0
million in the C2DE demographic, compared to the 1.5 and 0.1 million
respectively of its upmarket stablemate The Times. It is published by News Group
Newspapers of News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News
Corporation.
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The Times
The Times is a daily national newspaper
published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily
Universal Register. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are
published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International. News
International is entirely owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert
Murdoch. Though traditionally a moderately centre-right newspaper and a
supporter of the Conservatives, it supported the Labour party in the 2001 and
2005 general elections. In 2005, according to MORI, the voting intentions of its
readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats,
26% for Labour.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British international
business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London that has
had a strong influence on the financial policies of the British government. The
periodical is printed at 24 sites.
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