Ownership and Regulation

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How many organisations own national newspapers and do any companies own more than one title? If so, are these titles linked together?

companies do own more than one newspaper and the titles are linked together, for example the express newspaper ltd are called daily star and daily express.

News international(Rupert Murdoch): sun, times, Sunday times, sun on Sunday(news of the world)
Daily mail and daily trust: mail, mail on Sunday
Northern and shell(Richard Desmond): express, express on Sunday, star
Trinity mirror plc: mirror, Sunday mirror, Sunday people, daily record
Telegraph group(Barclay brothers: daily telegraph, Sunday telegraph(the businesses)
Guardian media group(Scott trust): guardian, observer
Nikkei(brought from Pearson): financial times

Which companies own regional newspaper titles? Look at newspapers that you may be familiar with such as The Leicester Mercury.

The Leicester Mercury is owned by trinity mirror.
Birmingham evening mail is owned by Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd (Trinity mirror)
Liverpool Echo is owned by Liverpool Daily Post and Echo (Trinity mirror)


Do any of these companies own other media outlets? How does this link to Hesmondhalgh's ideas on Cultural Industries (see below)?

a lot of companies own more than one title, this could either be national, regional or both. This fits Hesmondhalgh's theory on Cultural Industries, it says that there is an increasing number of conglomerates that have vertically integrated a number of different news companies to reduce risk for themselves. Companies own multiple newspapers in order to reproduce stories in different ways because this costs less. 


Why do you think ownership is something to be concerned about in the UK? Use Curran and Seaton's Power and Media Industries to explore this idea in your post.

Ownership is something to be concerned about as media industries follow the normal capitalist pattern of increasing concentration of ownership in fewer and fewer hands. This is referencing to Curran and Seatons theory of ownership.












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