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 

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