Newspaper data

News and Online Media

Comparing The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Sun

• The Daily Mail have the largest online readership (14,068,817). This is because they it is free (unlike The Sun which you have to pay for), it has a simple and easiest to use layout and there are very little adverts.
• The Sun have the most print circulation (1,666,714)/readership(5,350,725)
• The Guardian have the most social media readers with a 6.87 million twitter followers. However they have the least print circulation/ readership. 
• Generally the more mainstream the paper, the more copies it sells.
• The Guardian seem to have made the biggest transition from paper to online as there figures on paper have been multiplied by 7 to online. 

Online News Advantages/Disadvantages

Advantages

- Easily accessible 

- Give you recent updates, if you sign up, they give you notifications 

- Mainly free

- You can search for specific articles

- No adverts on The Daily Mail

- The apps make it more navigable

- More interactive; this is called 'participatory media'→ You can watch videos and comment/like/share on Instagram, Facebook, twitter etc.

- Helpful for disabled people who struggle to get it from shops

- There is an archive option to view news you have missed

Disadvantages

- Sometimes can give you an overload of news you don't want to read

- You might not have internet connection 

- A lot more advertising that pops up and disturbs your reading

- The ability to comment to result in hurtfulness