Overview
– It has won the Press Award for Newspaper of the Year
– The Daily Mail is owned by Jonathon Harmsworth (4th Viscount of Rothermere), who is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT)
– General Trust is a media company that publishes newspapers, radio programmes and television programmes.
– It was founded on the 4th May 1896, making it 124 years old.
– As of February 2020, there are approximately 1,134,834 newspapers sold daily and are in circulation
– It has a sister paper, which is called the Mail on Sunday
– Their website (www.dailymail.co.uk) has more than 218 visitors per month
– The Daily Mail is published daily and is a middle-market newspaper, which is published in London and is available in a tabloid format
– The Daily Mail is mentioned in The Beatles’ hit single Paperback Writer
– The Daily Mail (founded 1896) was the first UK daily newspaper to sell more than 1 million copies, making it the biggest selling Western newspaper
Institution
– The Daily Mail is under conglomerate Murdoch’s News UK, which also own the subsidiaries The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, The Times and The Sunday Times.
– A survey held in 2015 shown that the average age of The Daily Mail readers was 58 and unlike other newspapers, has a high female readership of around 52-55%
– Between April 2019 and March 2020 it had an average daily readership of approximately 2.180 million. Of these figures, approximately 1.407 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 773,000 readers in the C2DE demographic.
– The Daily Mail targets social class B/C1
– It contains a mixture of hard news and soft news
Criticisms of the Daily Mail
– The Daily Mail was criticised by Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia) because he claimed it published fake news articles and hyped up headlines of stories that aren’t true
– CNBC also reported that the Daily Mail relies on clickbait and hype headlines
– The Daily Mail has been criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate stories surrounding science and medicine.
– In 2017, Wikipedia banned the Daily Mail because they found it to be an unreliable news source.
The political spectrum
– – It is a right-wing politically aligned newspaper
– As well as being a right-wing political newspaper, the Daily Mail is also known for supporting the Conservative Party.
