News institutions

BBC 

• Publicly owned
• Founded 18 October 1922
• Founded by John Reith 
• The BBC website is Europe's most popular content-based site
• 13.2 million people visit the page
• BBC is the largest news operation in the world
• Addition of BBC mobile has improved the accessibility of news
• Provides news on radio and programmes BBC News, BBC parliament and BBC World News
• BBC Red Button is the interactive digital television, this provides news, weather and sport 24 hours a day

SKY

• Owned by Sky Plc
• Founded 5 February 1989
• Distributed by Fox International Channels
• Broadcast worldwide 
• 24 hour multimedia news operation based in Britain 
• Skynews.com is the official website
• The website provides news, sport, weather, showbiz and business 
• Blogs and forums are also written by staff to create an interactivity

The Sun

• Tabloid paper founded in 1964
• Largest newspaper behind Daily Mail
• Approximately 5.5 million readers
• 31% in ABC1 demographic and 68% in C2DE
• 41% of readers are female
• The Sun also has an official website
• Editior is Tony Gallagher
• Owned by News UK (News Corp UK and Ireland)    

Daily Mail 

• The publisher is DMG Media 
• Founded on May, 1896
• Owned by Daily and General Trust 
• Britain's first daily news paper 
• First newspaper to ever sell a million copies a day
• 55% of the readers of this newspaper is female
• Approximately 3.951 million readers per day
• 2.503 million of those readers fell under the ABC1 demographic 
• 1.448 million were in the C2DE demographic 
• Editor is Paul Dacre

BBC News App

• Allows users to personalise which news stories are priority 
• Available on ios as well as android
• Free to download on both systems
• Positive ratings on both ios and Android

1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry?

Showing relevant and breaking from news sites on their homepage Google prevents newspapers from claiming advertising revenue. This is because people don't need to go onto their websites. Also, they are essentially sharing information from these websites and not actually giving credit or shares to the source of that information.

2) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?

Google is in place to provide its consumers with a service and to make things more convenient. It's up to the audience to choose who they get their news from, hence it's not Google's fault that the consumers don't want to view their pages/papers. With services such as Google, I think inevitable that people would want to take the more convenient root, rather than go on multiple News sites for information, that Google could offer in one place. As technology advances, traditional concepts will essentially die down. So I don't think that Google is to blame.