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| Aberdeen Journals |
Owners of one of the top five Scottish papers,
the Press
and Journal. Main website: Thisisnorthscotland.co.uk
Part of Northcliffe Newspapers, which is in turn owned by Daily
Mail General Trust plc. Northcliffe's buying of the group from
Thomson was cleared by the Competition Commission in 1996. |
| D
C Thomson |
Dundee-based group founded in 1905. Famed for
newspapers such as the Courier and Advertiser and
Sunday Post; magazines such as the Scots magazine;
and comics such as the Beano
(founded in 1998). Bought Surrey-based Puzzler Media, which
publishes 50 puzzle magazines, including 280,000-a-month
selling Puzzler Sudoku, for £85m in December
2005. |
| Johnston
Press plc |
One of the biggest groups in the UK, owning
the Yorkshire Post and more than 300 other titles,
and 90 websites using the 'Today' branding, such as Jobstoday
and Pocklingtontoday.
Based in Edinburgh and dates back to 1767. Listed on the
London stock market since 1988 |
| Scotsman
Publications |
Bought by Johnston Press in 2005 from the Barclay
brothers' Press Holdings Ltd (profile).
Publishes The Scotsman
(which has a free archive of the period 1817 to 1920), the
Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday
(launched August 7, 1988) from Edinburgh. Sunday paper went
tabloid in 2005 |
| Daily
Record and Sunday Mail Ltd |
Based in Glasgow and controlled by Trinity Mirror
Group (profile). Daily Record
is the largest-selling Scottish paper, claiming a readership
of half the Scottish population. The first popular paper in
Britain to carry extensive colour (1971) |
| Newsquest
(Herald and Times) |
Publishes the Glasgow-based Herald
(founded 1784) and Evening
Times (founded 1876) and Caledonian magazines. Launched
Sunday
Herald on 7 February 1999 with 50,000 sales target within
a year (launch case study click here). Newsquest
profile |
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Related newspaper bodies Back to top
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| ABC |
Audit Bureau of Circulations. Audits sales of big
Scottish papers. Registration required (free) |
| All
Media Scotland |
portal for journalists and media professionals |
| NRS |
National Readership Survey. Measures readership
(as opposed to sales) of major papers and magazines |
| Newspaper Society
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represents regional publishers across the UK |
Scottish
Newspaper
Publishers
Association |
represents 18 groups owning some 100 weekly or
bi-weekly paid papers and 30 freesheets |
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