Daily Middle-Market newspaper published in London (Tabloid format)

Founded – 1896, it is the UKs highest circulated newspaper

The paper is owned by The Daily Mail and General Trust

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 among the major British dailies. Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, it has a majority female readership, with women making up 52–55% of its readers. It had an average daily circulation of 1,134,184 copies in February 2020.

Sister paper – Mail on Sunday launched 1982

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 and General Trust

Support of fascism

Rothermere’s article from the issue dated 15 January 1934.

Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail’s editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s. Rothermere’s 1933 leader “Youth Triumphant” praised the new Nazi regime’s accomplishments, and was subsequently used as propaganda by them.

Gay gene controversy

On 16 July 1993 the Mail ran the headline “Abortion hope after ‘gay genes’ finding”. Of the tabloid headlines which commented on the Xq28 gene, the Mail’s was criticised as “perhaps the most infamous and disturbing headline of all”.