Associated Newspapers Ltd

Infobox_Company
company_name=Associated Newspapers
company_logo=
company_type=Media
foundation=1905
location=Kensington, London
key_people=Kevin Beatty Lord Rothermere Paul Dacre
industry=Mass media
products=Newspapers and Websites
revenue=profit £931m
num_employees=
homepage= [http://www.associatednewspapers.com/ associatednewspapers.com]

Associated Newspapers is a large national newspaper publisher in the UK, which is a subsidiary of the Daily Mail and General Trust. The group was established in 1905 and is currently based at Northcliffe House in Kensington. It takes responsibility for Harmsworth Quays, the London Docklands print works plant at which it produces all of its London, South of England and South Wales editions of the national titles.

It publishes four major national newspaper titles and two local newspapers situated in London. Its sister group is Northcliffe Media, who take care of DMGT's regional newspaper titles. Associated Newspapers is also responsible for overseeing and developing the Group’s consumer businesses within Associated Northcliffe Digital and Teletext and for the Group’s UK newspaper printing operations.

Titles

Associated Newspapers publishes the following titles:

*"Daily Mail" - The main national newspaper owned by Associated. In terms of circulation, it sells more than two million, giving it one of the largest circulations of any English language daily newspaper, and the twelfth highest of any newspaper in the world.
*"The Mail on Sunday" - The sister paper of the Daily Mail, published weekly on Sundays. First published in 1982, it has become the most read Sunday newspaper in Britain.
*"Evening Standard" - The paper was launched as the "Standard" on May 21, 1827 [British Library. (2000) [http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century"] Accessed April 13 2007.] . Paid for London newspaper, it has a dominant City and financial emphasis as well as carrying national and international news.
*"Ireland on Sunday" - Associated Newspapers took over the publishing of Ireland on Sunday in 2001. The title was re-launched in April 2002 to coincide with the move to its new offices in Ballsbridge, Dublin. It included TV Week magazine and in September 2006 it was merged with the Mail on Sunday and became the Irish Mail on Sunday.
*"Metro" - Metro is the UK’s only urban national newspaper. Launched in March 1999 as a free, stapled newspaper, it was distributed initially in London. But since has been published every weekday morning, around Yorkshire, the North West, the North East, the East Midlands, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Cardiff and Scotland. Metro’s readership is 2.2 million (NRS June ‘07), with over 1.3 million copies printed.
*"Loot" - not a mainstream newspaper, although is available nationally. Classified directory.
*"London Lite" - free sheet that was formerly called the Standard Lite, but was re-designed to compete with News International's new free sheet thelondonpaper. It is also a free sheet and is handed out by vendors in the evening around the London Zone 1 area.
*" [http://www.mailtoday.in/ Mail Today] " - A 48-page compact size newspaper launched in India on November 16 2007 that is printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida with a print run of 110,000 copies. Based around a subscription model, the newspaper has the same fonts and feel as the Daily Mail and was set up with investment from Associated Newspapers and editorial assistance from the Daily Mail newsroom. [ [http://www.thomascrampton.com/media/thomas-jacob-mail-todays-india-newspaper-ifra/ Associated Newspapers launches Mail Today in India] ] Indian foreign media ownership laws restrict holdings to 26 percent.this work is good when emedia comes into hand.

Teletext

Teletext provides commercial teletext services on all the ITV channels, Channel 4 and analogue five. Other than television, its digital businesses are Teletext Holidays, This is Travel, Teletext Cars, Teletext Mobile and Villarenters.com.

Associated New Media

Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) is the digital publishing division of Associated Newspapers Ltd. It was launched in 1995, ANM publishes some of the UK's most successful new media resources and services. The group has designed websites including Mail Online, for the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers. And other websites for Loot, Jobsite, travelAds, londonjobs.co.uk, This is Money, for Financial Mail on Sunday, business and financial news, This is London and FindaProperty.

Controversy

On 27 April 2007, Associated Newspapers was ordered to pay undisclosed damages to Hugh Grant. Grant has sued over claims made about his relationships with his former girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles, which were published in the "Daily Mail" and "The Mail on Sunday" on 18, 21 and 24 February. His lawyer stated that all of the articles' "allegations and factual assertions are false." [cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6598937.stm |title=Hugh Grant accepts libel damages |publisher=BBC |date=2007-04-27 |accessdate=2007-02-24] Grant said, in a written statement, that he took the action because: "I was tired of the "Daily Mail" and "Mail on Sunday" papers publishing almost entirely fictional articles about my private life for their own financial gain. I'm also hoping that this statement in court might remind people that the so-called 'close friends' or 'close sources' on which these stories claim to be based almost never exist." [cite news |url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,2066970,00.html |title=Associated pays Grant damages |last=Tryhorn |first=Chris |publisher="Guardian Unlimited" |date=2007-04-27 |accessdate=2007-02-17]

The publisher has also lost libel cases and paid damages to personalities such as Television presenter Thea Rogers [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/may/08/dailymail.associatednewspapers Mail apologises for 'stalker' story] ] and Oisin Fanning, former CEO of Smart Telecom. [ [http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/newspaper-bosses-are-left-smarting-after-libel-action-1222410.html Newspaper bosses are left smarting after libel action] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.associatednewspapers.com/ Associated Newspapers website]
* [http://www.anm.co.uk/ Associated New Media website]