New and Digital Media and News.

The Guardian

•  Founded in 1821
• Online access:  http://www.theguardian.com/uk
• The Guardian was named newspaper of the year at the 2014 British Press Awards
• In the 2015 UK general election, The Guardian endorsed the Labour Party.
• Owned by the Scott Trust who owns The Guardian Media Group
• 1995 - 2015: Edited by Alan Rusbridger
• 2015 - Present: Edited by Katharine Viner 
• Online edition was the second most widely read in the world as of October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers
• Combined print and online editions = nearly 9 million readers.

BBC News

• First broadcast on 14th November 1922
• Online access: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
•  World's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage
•  Annual budget is £350 million
• James Harding - Director of News & Current Affairs
• Mary Hockaday - Head of Newsroom
• Huw Edwards - Chief Presenter

SKY News

• Provides non-stop rolling news on television, online, and on a range of mobile devices
• Online access: http://news.sky.com/
• Launched: 5 February 1989
• Their slogan is "First for breaking news"
• Sky News  provides content for Yahoo! News
• 10th May 2015, Sky News won a BAFTA in the News Category, for Alex Crawford's coverage of the 2014 Ebola crisis.
• Awarded the 2015 Royal Television Society - News Channel of the Year, for the ninth time

Radio 4

• Second most popular domestic radio station in the UK
• Online access; http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
• The station controller is Gwyneth Williams
• Their slogan is "Intelligent Speech"
• First air date: 30 September 1967
• highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011
• Costs £71.4 million
• Radio 4 has also been frequently criticised for being too middle class and being of little interest to non-white listeners

Daily Mail

• The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper 
• Online access: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
• First published in 1896
• second-half of 2013 had a 54.77% female readership the only British newspaper whose female readers constitute more than 50% of its demographic.
• average daily circulation of 1,708,006 copies in March 2014
•  daily readership of approximately 3.951 million, of whom approximately 2.503 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 1.448 million in the C2DE demographic.
• Editor Paul Dacre