Newspapers - The Daily Mail

Question 1

What is liberalism

Answer 1

• favours less state intervention some regulation from the government on key policies

Question 2

What is socialism

Answer 2

• favours nationalisation of public services, large state intervention in social and economic policy and greater equality

Question 3

What is conservatism

Answer 3

• favours privatisation of public services, less state intervention in social and economic policy and greater personal autonomy

Question 4

Who is the key player in the daily mail

Answer 4

• Rothermere - British aristocrat and a member of the House of Lords.
• inherited the daily mail group founded by his great grandfather
• net worth of over £1 billion
• Paul Darce - long time editor

Question 5

Ownership of the daily mail

Answer 5

• the daily mail is owned by daily mail and general trust (DMGT), a British multinational media company that also owns other newspapers, such as the mail on Sunday and metro.
• it is a public company, which means that it is owned by a number of shareholders, including institutional investors, e.g pension funds.
• as a public company, the daily mail is subject to the pressures of shareholders who are interested in maximising profits. This can lead to a focus on sensationalism and click bait headlines, as well as a reluctance to report one stroies that may be controversial or unpopular with adversities.

Question 6

Daily mail ownership update (2011)

Answer 6

• From public to private company - lord rotheremer wins bid to take daily mail owner private (been public since 1932)
• increased cost of printing
• streamlining workforce - rothermere is expected to slash jobs in a bid to reduce overheads
• a digital future - me said that being publicly traded hindered his long term vision to ‘spread wings across the globe’, and create by mail online

Question 7

When was DMGT established

Answer 7

DMGT is a very established company and the daily mail has been going since 1989

Question 8

Who owns and publishes the daily mail

Answer 8

• the daily mail is owned and published by the daily mail and general trust (DMGT)

Question 9

Who is the current chairman of the daily mail

Answer 9

• the current chairman of the DMGT is Jonathan harmsowth, part if the rothermere family who established the newspaper
• the newspaper has stayed within a family organisation

Question 10

Where does the DMGT operate

Answer 10

• the DMGT operate in across 40 countries globally which makes them powerful

Question 11

DMGT and horizontal integration

Answer 11

• they have horizontally integrated by buying out many other newspapers over the years including:
• the i newspaper
• the mail on Sunday
• metro

Question 12

The decline of print newspapers

Answer 12

• print newspaper circulation is falling in general in the uk as many audiences are Turing online for news
  Circulation = 1.1m per edition
  Readership = 2.2 m per edition
• the mail online website attracts a massive 218 m unique users every month - the mail online website is the most visited newspaper website in the world

Question 13

The mail online and revenue

Answer 13

• with print circulation declining, there website opens up further opportunities to make money from advertising revenue

Question 14

Daily mail and awards

Answer 14

• the daily mail had won a wide variety of awards including national paper of the year 8 times in 17 years