The sun

• News UK


  Subsidiary of News Corp, a massive global conglomerate owned and run by Rupert Murdoch
• Newspapers published by News UK

  • The Sun
  • The Times
  • The Sunday Times
• Industries News Corp operates in

  • Newspapers
  • TV news
  • TV
  • Film
• Revenue streams for the Sun

  • People buying the paper
  • Sun dating website
  • Sun bingo website
  • Premium rate telephone numbers
• Encouraging readers to buy the paper again

  1. Putting puzzles in the following day's edition

  2. Advertising free gifts in future editions
• The Sun is owned by News UK

  News UK also operates radio stations like Talk Radio, which are advertised in the Sun
• News Corp was involved in the phone hacking scandal, which caused a lot of bad publicity
• Damage control


  Shutting down the News of the World newspaper to protect the reputation of other News Corp products
• IPSO


  Newspaper-led regulatory body that the Sun belongs to, with power to issue sanctions and fines
• The Sun has ways of minimizing the impact of IPSO regulations, like burying apologies in small print
• Readers have more power to regulate the Sun than IPSO, as seen with the Hillsborough disaster coverage
• Regulating online comments


  • Using algorithms to detect offensive language
  • Having human moderators
  • Readers finding ways to bypass regulations
• The Sun's printed newspaper is making a loss, but it is still worth continuing to print due to other revenue streams
• Declining newspaper circulation


  Due to rise of online and social media news
• Newspapers have developed websites and social media pages to compete with online news