Press

In this presentation, I will be talking about the newspaper industry.

The press focuses on delivering news to the general public or target public. This includes print media (newspapers), broadcast news (radio and television), and internet (online newspapers).

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A newspaper is a periodical publication containing news, other informative articles, and usually advertising.

A newspaper is usually printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. Most newspapers now publish online as well as in print. The online versions are called online newspapers or news sites.

The UK press has over 300 businesses and currently employs more than 50,000 people. The revenue of this industry is around £5 billion.

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Size of this industry

News Corporation is an public American multinational mass media company that focuses on newspapers and publishing.

News UKNews UK & is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp.

It is the current publisher of The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers and its former publications include the Today, News of the World and The London Paper newspapers.

News UK's main competitor is DMG Media, which is in turn owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.

DMG Media is a national mass media newspaper and website publisher in the UK. It is a subsidiary of the Daily Mail and General Trust.

This company currently has a revenue of £900 million.

DMG Media

The group was established in 1905 and is currently based at Northcliffe House in Kensington. It takes responsibility for Harmsworth Printing Limited which produces all of its London, Southern England and South Wales editions of the national titles out of print works in Thurrock, Essex and Didcot, Oxfordshire.

DMG Media

DMG Media is a leading multi-channel consumer media company which is home to some of the UK’s most popular brands, including the Daily Mail, MailOnline, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, Wowcher, Jobsite and Jobrapido.

Part of DMGT, DMG Media's portfolio of national newspapers, websites and mobile and tablet applications regularly reach 55%* of the GB adult population.

It publishes two major paid-for national newspaper titles as well as a free nationally available newspaper. DMG Media is also responsible for overseeing and developing the Group’s online consumer businesses, which also include Teletext Holidays,and for the group’s UK newspaper printing operations.

Daily Mail and General Trust is a British public limited Media Company and one of the largest in Europe. In the UK, its interests are in national and regional newspapers, television and radio.

DMGT has revenue of almost £2 billion and 14,000 employees.

This company publishes newspapers such as Daily mail, The Mail on Sunday and Metro.

DMG Media

Daily mail and general trust

Impact of digital technology on press industry

Digital technology on press has made a huge impact on this industry because having a newspaper online makes it easier for people to access and it is also free. By using this it also gives the latest information and is frequently updated whereas newspapers come out every day or so.

The impact from this has caused newspapers to lose sales and interest from the public which impacts the company.

How does this industry relate to other media industries

This industry relates to other industries such as advertising and marketing, photography & photo imaging and publishing.

The newspaper uses advertisements which are paid for by companies because newspapers are publicly known for a source of latest news and information and have a wide audience. So advertising is used in newspapers to get across to their audience.

Photography helps give the information they want to the audience by showing pictures to make their newspaper believable and shows evidence for the information they give. Images are frequently used in newspapers.

Publishing is very similar to newspapers, the difference is they have a different target audience and give different information. Publishing revolves around latest news and information on celebs, tips, fashion, health and beauty.