Daily mail

• The Daily Mail is owned and published by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT)
• The newspaper has been going since

  1896
• The current chairman of the company is Jonathan Harmsworth
• Jonathan Harmsworth is a relative of the original founders of the newspaper
• DMGT brings in around 2 billion pounds of revenue every single year
• DMGT operates across a wide range of media industries including newspapers, property investments, and events
• DMGT operates in 40 countries around the world
• Print products by DMGT

  • The Eye newspaper
  • The Metro newspaper
  • New Scientist
• Newspaper circulation has been in heavy decline over the last 20 years
• The Daily Mail has a daily circulation of 1.1 million
• The Daily Mail's website, Mail Online, gets 280 million unique users every month
• Mail Online is the most visited newspaper website in the world
• The Daily Mail has won national newspaper of the year eight times in 17 years
• The Daily Mail has its own team of editors and journalists
• The Daily Mail syndicates stories to other sources and purchases stories from other places
• The Mail Online is free to access
• The Mail Online has a free app with no in-app purchases
• DMGT set up Mail Plus, a premium access website and app with exclusive content and no ads
• Mail Plus is not as successful as the Mail Online website
• Mailplus is not as successful as the mail online website
• The Daily Mail is a conservative supporting newspaper
• The Daily Mail has written articles politically against Labour and the Lib Dems and more pro-Conservatives
• The Daily Mail historically was pro-Nazi in the 1930s and 1940s
• In 2009, The Daily Mail came under scrutiny for writing a homophobic and insensitive article about the death of Stephen Gately
• In 2013, The Daily Mail wrote an anti-semitic article about Ed Miliband's father
• In 2015, an ex-member of The Daily Mail reporting staff wrote an expose article about their journalistic techniques
• In 2017, The Daily Mail printed a front cover about a man with a bomb, which was false
• In 2019, Meghan Markle sued The Daily Mail for libel
• In 2017, Melania Trump successfully sued The Daily Mail over a story suggesting she worked as an escort
• In 2015, The Daily Mail tried to buy footage of a terrorist attack despite police efforts to keep it under wraps
• Newspapers like The Daily Mail often breach regulations set out by companies like IPSO and IMPRESS
• Advertisers hold more power over The Daily Mail than regulatory bodies like IPSO
• The Daily Mail targets a range of audiences worldwide with different versions for different countries
• DMGT has formed partnerships with several other companies over the years
• Partnerships formed by DMGT


  • Several other companies, People's Daily, Stage 29 Productions
• People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party
• Reason for partnership with People's Daily

  To get exclusive access to news stories from within China
• News and media are heavily censored and controlled within China
• Exclusive access to content from China gave Daily Mail a unique brand in the UK
• Complaints received due to exclusive content affecting reporting on Chinese politics