News institutions research

The Scott trust are a British company owning two major news outlets, The Guardian and the observer.

Rupert Murdoch also owns several UK newspapers including the sun, the times and the sunday times. He has a lot more influence in Australia. 2014, owned a 1/3 of uk newspaper market.

Channel 4 television corporation owns and operates channel 4 as public service provider, though it is commercially funded (mostly).

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Daily Mail/The Mail on Sunday (dailymail.co.uk)The Sun/The Sun on Sunday (thesun.co.uk)Daily Mirror/Sunday Mirror (mirror.co.uk)The Guardian/The Observer (theguardian.com)The Daily Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)The Independent/The Independent on Sunday/i (independent.co.uk)The Times/The Sunday Times (thetimes.co.uk/thesundaytimes.co.uk)Daily Express/Sunday Express (express.co.uk)Daily Star/Daily Star Sunday (dailystar.co.uk)Daily Record/Sunday Mail (Scotland) (dailyrecord.co.uk)

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This graph is showing monthly readership for newspapers of the uk. The papers owned by Murdoch dominate this graph with the highest monthly readership.

BBC 1Channel 4ITVBBC 2Channel 5ITV 2Channel 4+1More 4DaveITV+1E4BBC 4Film 4ITV 4ITV 35*ITV 2+14sevenSky 1E4+1

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This graph shows the Quarterly reach of the leading 20 TV channels in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 1st quarter 2016 (in millions). BBC was rated number one channel for news with 34% of adults in the UK saying this is where they go to. 

1) Google have have been a major contributor into the decline of the media (newspaper) business because they have been 'siphoning' off billions of dollars in classified advertising revenue from newspapers.

2)“It’s uncanny, therefore, that of the $60 billion plus of potential annual ad sales that print publications seem to have lost, Google had grabbed about $44 billion by 2012, from virtually nothing in 2000. That two-thirds of slice of the spoils is about equal to the company’s market share of the online search business.”

3) The steepest decline can be seen from around 2006-2010 when figures fall to below half from their peak in 2000.

4) The amount of money lost by newspapers is quite significant but google operated so well because people wanted to use that rather than newspapers and journalists, its difficult to completely blame google as people like to keep up with new technology and google thrived because of this.

5)Sorry, you didn’t convince me. So what if they didn’t invent the Internet. They did figure out a good way to advertise on other people’s content without sharing anything with the people who did the work. They could have built a system that actually paid the content creators. They could have tossed in a microcent every time someone clicked on a search link. But no, they kept ALL of the money for themselves. And they still do it. They seem to think that Google News is a service. It’s just a leech on the hardworking reporters.

To some extent i agree with this comment as it wouldnt be impossible for google to have shared some of the money with the content creators, nevertheless on youtube ( a google application) people can monetize videos via advertisement. Also google capitalised on the opportunity that was just waiting there.