the daily mail

  • Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail 
  •  The Daily Mail’s main target audience is lower-middle-class British women
  • The Daily Mail is a British daily tabloid formatted newspaper founded in 1896.
  • The Monday to Saturday edition of the Daily Mail circulates 1,158,192 copies and has a daily readership of 2.2 million.
  • Geordie Greig is the Editor of the Daily Mail, and also Editor of Mail Newspapers. For six years until 2018 he was Editor of The Mail on Sunday.
  • MailOnline is the website of the Daily Mail and of its sister paper The Mail on Sunday. MailOnline is a division of dmg media, which is owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc
  • Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail’s editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s.
  • It is the United Kingdom’s highest-circulated daily newspaper.
  • A survey in 2014 found the average age of its readers was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15- to 44-year-olds 

The Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a tabloid British newspaper that was founded by Alfred and Harold Harmsworth in 1896. The Newspaper has a right wing political bias as there is no evidence of this time to suggest otherwise. The newspaper is also available online. The main target audience is middle to lower class women. It has a total revenue of 2 Billion It’s now owned by Jonathan Harmsworth.

In February 2020, the paper had an average daily circulation of 1,134,184 copies. From April 2019 and March 2020, it had an average daily readership of 2.180 million. 1.407 million consumers were in the ABC1 demographic and 773,000 thousand were in the C2DE demographic.

DMGT said circulation revenues fell by 17% and advertisement revenue down by 46%