English in the Media

• Right-wing (Conversative).
• Launched in 2003.
• Most visited English-language newspaper website in the world.
• Had 11.34m daily visitors in August 2014.
• Almost 70% of the website traffic is from outside the UK (mainly USA).
• Introduced sponsored articles - guarantee 450,000 page views for £65,000 - commercial.
• Mixture of international news, UK sport, personal finance, travel, celebrity news and lifestyle editorial.
• Create 750 articles per day.
• Articles tend to be dominated by pictures rather than long-form journalism.
• Estimated that 25% of the website's traffic is purely to access the gossip/entertainment stories.
• Allows people to express anonnymous comments on articles and reserve the right to remove/edit these comments.
• Has been blocked in China.
• Effective Design award.

Controversies: racism, sexism, innacurate and hoax sources/stories, as well as piracy of stories.

• Founded in 1896.
• Tabloid.
• UK's third-highest-circulation newspaper.
• Daily middle-market newspaper.
• Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline website, despite being managed by a separate editor.
• In 2014, it had the lowest demographic for 15-to-44-year-olds among the major dailies.
• It is the only British daily newspaper to have a higher female (than male) readership.
• In November 2018, it had an average daily circulation of 1,222,611 copies.
• Never had a female editor.

Criticisms: Homophobia, sexism, inaccuracy, racism, taboo topics (e.g. Stephen Lawrence, cannabis, etc.).

• Left-wing (Labour).
• Founded in 1903.
• In December 2016, it had a daily circulation of 716,923.
• Converted into a working-class newspaper after 1934 to increase the audience size.
• During the mid-1960s, daily sales exceeded 5m (a feat never repeated by a British daily paper since).
• Had two female editors (including current Alison Phillips 2018-); Anne Robinson is deputy editor.

Controversies: Homosexuality, Iraq War, Nazis and KKK, working-class topics.

• Right-wing populism (Conservative).
• Euroscepticism
• Tabloid.
• In February 2019, it had an average daily circulation of 315,142.
• Switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977.
• One female editor (1998-2001).

Controversies: Conspiracy theories (Lady Di), obsession (Madeline McCann), xenophobia and hate speech.

• Politically centre-left.
• Launched in 1821.
• Compact tabloid newspaper since 2018.
•  As of February 2020, it has a daily circulation of 126,879.