Major players in UK news:
- Murdoch
- BBC
- ITN
UK Newspapers ranked in terms of readership print + online
Murdoch
Murdoch has full control as CEO of his holding company News Corporation. It is the second largest media conglomerate.Therefore, he has a big influence on the changing news industry both in the UK and aboard (USA).
Companies owned by Rupert Murdoch
- News Corporation
- 21st Century Fox
Assets of News Corp
UK
- The Sun
- The Times
- The Sunday Times
- Press Association (Part owned, News UK in one of 26 shareholders)
New South Wales
- The Daily Telegraph
- The Sunday Telegraph + insert Sunday Magazine
USA
- The Wall Street Journal
- Wall Street Journal Europe
- Wall Street Journal Asia
- Financial News
These are just some of the assets that News Corp holds they also have holds in Australia.
News Corp Statistics - GLOBAL REACH OF NEWS CORP
- Annual revenue of more than $31bn (£19bn)
- News Corp owns 44% of the Sky Network in Australia
- News Corp also owns some 150 national and local newspapers in Australia including The Australian, Herald Sun and The Telegraph.
- News Corp owns 50% stake in Premier Media Group that operates 9 Fox TV channels in Australia
- Under the STAR name, News Corp owns 9 cable channels in Asia
- 20% stake in India's Tata Sky Channel
- Owns a 39% share of British Sky Broadcasting (BSKyB)
- 45% share in Sky Deutschland
ITN - Inderpendant Television News
- Established in 1954 for the regional ITV companies, ITN is a British based news and content provider
- It is made up of three divisions ITN News, ITN Source and ITN Productions
- ITN is owned by ITV PLC (40%), DMGT (20%), Thomson Reuters (20%) and UBM PLC (20%).
Despite being owned 40% by the biggest commercial TV channel,it is ITN that holds the influence over the news industry as they produce content for many other channels that also have news segments. I would say that ITN has quite a large influence behind Murdoch and his companies. I think that it is ITN that has the influence as they are governing how the content is coming to us which I think essentially determines if we are interested it what we are being shown.
ITN - Produces content for...
- ITV
- Channel 4
- Channel 5
- UK mobile operators
- Online outlets (YouTube, MSN, Telegraph Media Group, Yahoo!)
- Film producers and researchers worldwide
ITN has worldwide coverage, and therefore influences a lot of people in a variety of differnet ways.
BBC - The British Broadcasting Corporation
The BBC, is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and has a big influence on the news industry as it changes. The BBC has been there right of the start and changed with the times. They have a large influence but must remember to remain impartial at all times with whatever the choose to broadcast. Choosing what to broadcast is the responsibility of the gatekeepers at the BBC, who decide if they should broadcast stories that they are sent from a variety of sources.
BBC Subsidiaries
BBC audience statistics
The BBC has a very large reach and is therefore very influential nationally and globally. Personally, I think that the reach of the BBC has often shaped our trust in the news that we receive. The BBC is always our first port of call and due to the developments in new and digital media we can access it whenever and wherever we like as the BBC almost always will have the story. The BBC has been there from the start and we trust them to be more accurate which likely explains why they have extremely high audience figures. The most recent figures I could find span April - June 2015 across a variety of their different channels showing the reach that they had to their different target audiences.
Other statistical information about the BBC audience figures
-- The BBC weekly global audience 2016 reaches 348m
-- BBC monthly performance pack for Jan 2016, shows everything from TV channels to Iplayer preferences and Iplayer use by time of day.
The impact of Google
1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry?
Google has led to the decline in the newspaper industry by siphoning off billions of dollars in classified advertising revenue in the past few years. Google
2) Find a statistic from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media.
More than $40 billion or about 60% of ad revenue generated at its peak in 2000 disappeared.
3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?
The steepest decline is from the 2000 mark through to 2010, as it began declining from just of the $50bn and kept declining to below $20bn for both print and online.
4) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?
I think that Google isn't to blame. This is because you cannot just single out Google just because they are a large tech company. There are many other companies such as Apple Inc, who are also responsible for sucking out the lifeblood of traditional media because they to have their own version of news apps and have invested thousands in the journalism industry. In fact, Google and other companies are probably more of a help than a hindrance as many elements of the journalism industry such as peoples blogs are discovered by its audience on Google.
5) Read the comments below the article. Pick one comment you agree with and one you disagree with and justify your opinions in detail.
Google has led to the decline in the newspaper industry by siphoning off billions of dollars in classified advertising revenue in the past few years. Google
2) Find a statistic from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media.
More than $40 billion or about 60% of ad revenue generated at its peak in 2000 disappeared.
3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?
The steepest decline is from the 2000 mark through to 2010, as it began declining from just of the $50bn and kept declining to below $20bn for both print and online.
4) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?
I think that Google isn't to blame. This is because you cannot just single out Google just because they are a large tech company. There are many other companies such as Apple Inc, who are also responsible for sucking out the lifeblood of traditional media because they to have their own version of news apps and have invested thousands in the journalism industry. In fact, Google and other companies are probably more of a help than a hindrance as many elements of the journalism industry such as peoples blogs are discovered by its audience on Google.
5) Read the comments below the article. Pick one comment you agree with and one you disagree with and justify your opinions in detail.
I agree with this comment as many journalistic elements out there even those of the large newspaper conglomerates were discovered on Google. For example, some of the major newspaper companies have established their online audiences with Google as they pay them to advertise at the top of a search menu. Also, many talented YouTubers have found there fame with the help of Google and gone on to win several awards for it such as Lilly Singh and Cameron Dallas. In my opinion, just like this individual says Google has helped companies to innovate with the changing times and technologies.
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