Newspapers: The Times - Introduction

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 Newspapers: The Times - Introduction

1) The Times was founded in 1785 and used the name "Times" in 1788.

2) He suggested that content should have something for every palette, as there should be aspects for each person in it.

3) Rupert Murdoch of News International now owns The Times. They claim to continually evaluate their list of preferred partners and allow their audience to have trust in them.

4) They introduced websites in 2010 in order to gain a wider range of audiences online.

5) In 2018, The Times was named Britain’s most trusted national newspaper by the Reuters Institute for Journalism at the Oxford University.

6) The Times say that they take complaints about editorial content seriously, and that they are committed to abiding by the Independent Press Standards Organisation regulations and the Editors’ Code of Practice that Ipso enforces.

7) The Times and The Sunday Times are published by Times Media Limited, wholly owned by News UK & Ireland Ltd. The current editor is Tony Gallagher.

8) 1.04m - average daily readership. Times readers have a mean family income of £55,885. 62% are of the social grade AB.

9) These sections suggest that The Times targets a wide variety of the audience's life and information that can be attributed to them.

10) Travel - more Times readers took a holiday abroad last year than any other newspaper.

13,000 advertisements are placed in Entertainment every year. Entertainment runs in Times 2 every day.

Education - Times readers are twice as likely to have a university degree of doctorate.

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