Newspaper in Britain

The National PressThe Local

Press

The National Daily Press

_The popular papers are all

“tabloids”, this means they are

published in a small page format.

The National Daily Press

_“The Sun” was founded in 1964. Now, “The

Sun” is still one of the leading papers with

daily sales is more than 3 million (3,001,882) .

That has minimum amount of political news,

maximum about football, sports, horseracing,

pictures of girls.

The National Daily Press

“Daily Mirror ” was founded in

1903, this has many pictures, not

so much text and has always

traditionally supported the

Labour Party.

The National Daily Press

“ Daily Express” was founded in 1896,

and “The Daily Mail” was founded in

1900. Their pages are a mixture of texts

and pictures. Conservative people tend to

read them. “ Daily Star” is run by Daily

Express management but directed at

northern news

The National Daily Press

_The quality papers are the papers read by

the higher income classes, include most

important national and world news items.

_ Three most influential newspapers are

The Times, the Daily Telegraph and the

Guardian.

The National Daily Press

_ The Daily Telegraph was founded in

1855 and quickly became Britain's best-

selling paper with its mix of sport and

politics and news service.

_ It was bought mainly by middle-class

readers, and the latest daily circulation is

651,184

The National Daily Press

The Times was old established and

influential, founded in 1785, it is perhaps

the best-known British newspaper with

the daily circulation is 457,250.

_ It is read by lawyers, politicians, and

businessmen, by all those who work in the

government.

The National Daily Press

_ The Guardian began as a provincial

paper, the Manchester Guardian,it is a

liberal and humanitarian newspaper.

_ It’s about education, medical reforms,

the problems of aging people and

retirees, protection of the environment,

etc.