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UK readership: Mail Online still most-viewed news site, but only Guardian increased daily web audience

Recently-released reports show that Daily Mail’s combined print and digital circulation dominates that of other British publications, but The Guardian was the only major publication to significantly increase daily web viewers for the month of February.

According to February ABC data, Mail Online led with 110.7 million unique visitors in February, which reflects a 21 percent increase from last year and signifies a 75 percent growth in visits for the year, a Daily Mail release says. The Guardian brought 43 percent fewer viewers than Daily Mail with 77.4 million for the month.

The Telegraph and The Guardian have been grappling for top circulation in the National Readership Survey’s “quality” publication category. According to Journalism.co.uk, in September The Guardian led, but in November The Telegraph won. February data shows the two remain neck-and-neck for top spot: The Guardian had a monthly web and print audience of 12.7 million, and The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph together just under 12.5 million. This contrasts to Daily Mail’s 20 million combined readership and The Sun’s 17.4 million.

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Kira Witkin

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2013-03-22 13:55

The Daily Mail takes on Leveson: sorting the wheat from the chaff

A ‘dossier’ signaling an imminent ‘coup’ from that ‘incestuous […] quasi-masonic nexus’, the ‘Left’s old boy network’; it could only really be one UK newspaper, couldn’t it. Never one for sending its cavalry round the flank, today’s Daily Mail charges headlong into the boggy mire of the Leveson battlefield, bayonets fixed and ready for a scrap. Over the course of its front page, five subsequent double-page spreads and its main leader column, the paper marshals a typically uncompromising thesis of corruption, cronyism and general left-wing Establishment conspiracy which, it fears, threatens to inveigle the otherwise irreproachable Lord Leveson’s august inquiry down the path of unrighteousness, imperiling freedom of the press and the world as we know it. Or something like that.

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Frederick Alliott

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2012-11-16 19:22

Mail Online is the world's biggest newspaper site, according to comScore

The Daily Mail has overtaken The New York Times to become the world's biggest newspaper site, according to data from comScore.

Buzzfeed reports that in December 2011 Mail Online reached 45.3 million users, compared to 44.8 million reached by the The New York Times.

Mail Online publisher Martin Clarke told Buzzfeed in an interview that growing US audiences and the hiring of deputy editor Katherine Thompson, formerly of the Huffington Post, have helped fuel the Mail's boom in readers. The site has a strong presence in America, with permanent staff in New York and Los Angeles.

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Emma Goodman

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2012-01-27 10:54

The Daily Mail expands online with Indian site

British tabloid The Daily Mail is broadening its online presence with the introduction of Mail Online India, reports Roy Greenslade in The Guardian today.

The new page is integrated into Mail's UK website, but contains content from Mail Today, a publication launched by the Daily Mail's parent company Daily Mail & General Trust together with the India Today Group in November 2007.

Mail Online India features Mail Today's logo on its banner, but it also reproduces large amounts of content from its British counterpart; the 'Femail' section, for example, is identical on both sites' home pages.

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Emma Goodman

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2012-01-19 19:24

A defence of British tabloids

At a time when the conduct and the ethics of the red-top press (and others) is under the lens of the Leveson inquiry, the British press is defending tabloids in the wake of the conviction of two of Stephen Lawrence's killers.

The Guardian published an editorial - taken up by PressGazette's blog - which praised the Daily Mail for its coverage (entirerly summerized by the Mail itself here), starting from the famous page one accusation back in 1997. "It did not simply keep the case in the public eye. It also became a national reprimand to the criminal justice and political system in a wider sense", the editorial said.

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Federica Cherubini

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2012-01-04 14:16

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