UK news providers

The Guardian

• Founded in 1821 by John Edward Taylor in Manchester
• The Guardian had a reputation as "an organ of the middle class
• The Guardian is part of the GMG Guardian Media Group of newspapers, radio stations, print media including The ObserverSunday newspaper
• The Guardian has been consistently loss-making. The National Newspaper division of GMG, which also includes The Observer, reported operating losses of £49.9m in 2006, up from £18.6m in 2005
• The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion
• The first edition was published on 5 May 1821, at which time The Guardian was a weekly, published on Saturdays

BBC News

• The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage.
• The department's annual budget is £350 million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists.
• Radio and television operations are currently broadcast from the newly refurbished Broadcasting House, with all domestic, global, and online news divisions housed in Europe's largest live newsroom inside the building. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London.
• The British Broadcasting Company broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station 2LO on 14 November 1922
• BBC and ABC also share video segments and reporters as needed in producing their newscasts.

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Mail online

• MailOnline (also known as dailymail.co.uk) is the website of the Daily Mail, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper The Mail on Sunday.
• It is the most visited newspaper website in the world, with over 189.5 million visitors per month, and 11.7 million visitors daily, as of January 2014.
• The website reached 189.52 million unique web browsers in January 2014, up from 128.59 million in May 2013
• the Daily Mail, being to the right wing of mainstream British politics and typically supporting the UK Conservative Party.
• In December 2013, the Mail Online Android mobile app, Daily Mail Online, was named one of "The Best Apps of 2013" in the UK by the Google Play store