Daily Mail

  • Launched in 1896
  • offers many opportunities for studying the relationship between ownership patterns, economic factors and political viewpoints
  • Sister paper of The Mail on Sunday
  • MailOnline is a division of dmg media which is owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc
  • Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market and published in London
  • The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982
  • Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively
  • Johnathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, great-grandson of one of the original co-founders. Current shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, editorial decisions often made by a team led by the editor Geordie Greig
  • Average age of readers is 58 and had the lowest demographic for 15-44 year olds
  • Most of the the readers are female, with women 52-55% being women
  • Had an average circulation of 1,134,184 copies in February 2020, but between April 2019 and March 2020 it had an average daily readership of around 2.180 million
  • The website has more than 218 million visitors per month
  • The Daily Mail is considered unreliable and is widely criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research, and also for copyright violations
  • The Daily Mail received the National Newspaper of the Year award from The Press Awards eight times since 1995, they also won the award again in 2019
  •  According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of Daily Mail readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats
  • When the newspaper was first released it cost half a penny where other newspapers cost one penny, and it was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals
  • Additional printing facilities has to be acquired in order to sustain circulation which rose to 500,000 in 1899 after it selling 397,215 copies on the first day rather than the anticipated 100,000 that were printed
  • The Mail was the first newspaper to recognise the potential market of the female reader with a women’s interest section, considering the wider population and relating content to their readers, reactionary to demands of the public
  • In 1906 the paper offered £10,000 for the first flight from London and Manchester, which was followed by a £1,000 prize for the first flight across the English Channel
  • before WW1, the paper was accused of warmongering
  • Launched in 1896
  • offers many opportunities for studying the relationship between ownership patterns, economic factors and political viewpoints
  • Sister paper of The Mail on Sunday
  • MailOnline is a division of dmg media which is owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc
  • Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market and published in London
  • The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982
  • Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively
  • Johnathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, great-grandson of one of the original co-founders. Current shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, editorial decisions often made by a team led by the editor Geordie Greig
  • Average age of readers is 58 and had the lowest demographic for 15-44 year olds
  • Most of the the readers are female, with women 52-55% being women
  • Had an average circulation of 1,134,184 copies in February 2020, but between April 2019 and March 2020 it had an average daily readership of around 2.180 million
  • The website has more than 218 million visitors per month
  • The Daily Mail is considered unreliable and is widely criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research, and also for copyright violations
  • The Daily Mail received the National Newspaper of the Year award from The Press Awards eight times since 1995, they also won the award again in 2019
  •  According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of Daily Mail readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats
  • When the newspaper was first released it cost half a penny where other newspapers cost one penny, and it was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals
  • Additional printing facilities has to be acquired in order to sustain circulation which rose to 500,000 in 1899 after it selling 397,215 copies on the first day rather than the anticipated 100,000 that were printed
  • The Mail was the first newspaper to recognise the potential market of the female reader with a women’s interest section, considering the wider population and relating content to their readers, reactionary to demands of the public
  • In 1906 the paper offered £10,000 for the first flight from London and Manchester, which was followed by a £1,000 prize for the first flight across the English Channel
  • In 1919, Alcock and Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic, winning a prize of £10,000 from the Daily Mail
  • The Mail made a great story of another aviation stunt, awarding another prize of £10,000 to Amy Johnson for making the first solo flight from England to Australia
  • before WW1, the paper was accused of warmongering (encouragement or advocacy of aggression towards other countries or groups) when it reported that Germany was planning to crush the British Empire

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