Who is the owner of the Daily Express?
"Newspapers was sold to publisher Richard Desmond in 2000, and the names of the newspapers reverted to ""Daily Express"" and ""Sunday Express"". In 2004, the newspaper moved to its present location on Lower Thames Street in the City of London. On 31 October 2005, UK Media Group Entertainment Rights secured majority interest from the ""Daily Express"" for Rupert Bear. They paid £6 million for a 66.6% control of the character. The ""Express"" retains minority interest of one-third plus the right to publish Rupert Bear stories in certain Express publications. In 2000, Express Newspapers was bought by Richard Desmond, publisher of"
"March 2018. The paper's editorial stances have often been seen as aligned to the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Euroscepticism and other right-wing factions including the right-wing of the Conservative Party. On 9 February 2018, Trinity Mirror said it would acquire the Daily Express' parent company, Northern and Shell Media, in a deal worth £126.7m. In addition to its sister paper, Express Newspapers also publishes the red top newspapers the ""Daily Star"" and ""Daily Star Sunday"". The ""Daily Express"" was founded in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson, with the first issue appearing on 24 April 1900. Pearson, who had lost his"
"Richard Desmond Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December 1951) is a British publisher, businessman and philanthropist. He is the former owner of Express Newspapers and founder of Northern & Shell, which publishes various celebrity magazines, such as ""OK!"" and ""New!"", and British national newspapers ""Daily Star"" and ""Daily Express"". Express Newspapers were sold to Reach Plc (formerly Trinity Mirror) for a consideration of £200m of which £74m was invested in the Express newspapers pension scheme until 2027. Northern & Shell owned Channel 5 before selling it to US broadcaster Viacom for £463m in May 2014. The company sold its adult"
"Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, (24 February 1866 – 9 December 1921) was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, best known for founding the ""Daily Express"". Pearson was born in the village of Wookey, Somerset to Arthur Cyril and Phillippa Massingberd Maxwell (née Lyte) Pearson (the granddaughter of the hymn-writer and poet Henry Francis Lyte) and educated at Winchester College in Hampshire. His father was Rector of Drayton Parslow in Buckinghamshire, England. His first job was as a journalist working for the London-based publisher George Newnes on ""Tit-Bits"" magazine. Within his first year he"
"The Indian Express The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper. It is published in Mumbai by Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name ""The New Indian Express"", while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ""Indian Express"" name, with """"The"""" prefixed to the title. ""The Indian Express"" is published at ten locations—Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Kolkata, Vadodara, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Ahmedabad,Tirupati Later Goenka bought the remaining 26% of the company held by"
"Victor Matthews, Baron Matthews Victor Collin Matthews, Baron Matthews (5 December 1919 – 5 December 1995) was Group Managing Director of Trafalgar House, one of the United Kingdom's largest contracting businesses as well as the proprietor of the ""Daily Express"". Born in Islington and educated at Highbury School, Victor Matthews initially worked as an office boy for a tobacco business. During World War II he served as an able seaman in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and saw action at Dunkirk. After the War he joined Trollope & Colls, a large construction business, where he became a contracts manager. He"
"Philippines Daily Express The Philippines Daily Express, or commonly known as Daily Express and Sunday Express (every Sunday), was a newspaper in the Philippines. It was better known for circulating news articles related to then-President Ferdinand Marcos during the time of his regime. It was founded on May 9, 1972, by businessman Roberto Benedicto. The newspaper was re-opened few days after Marcos declared martial law wherein most media and newspaper outlets who were critical against the latter were closed its operations and took over by the military. Benedicto assigned Enrique Romualdez, a relative of first lady Imelda Marcos, as chief"
"D Wetherspoon Tim Martin who both gave interviews for 8 January's special edition of the paper. The first week of the campaign saw a response of around 370,000 signatures being received (just over 50% of daily readership or around 0.6% of the UK population). Daily Express The Daily Express is a daily national middle-market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (which is owned by publisher Trinity Mirror). It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the Sunday Express, was"
"Daily Mail and General Trust Daily Mail and General Trust plc is a British media company, the owner of The ""Daily Mail"" and several other titles. The company manages a multinational portfolio of companies, with total revenues of almost £2 billion. The company operates in over forty countries through its subsidiaries RMS, DMG Information, DMG Events, Euromoney Institutional Investor and DMG Media. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the company. The head office is located in Northcliffe House in Kensington, London. The group can trace its"
"Express (Washington, D.C. newspaper) The Express is a free daily newspaper, distributed in the Washington metropolitan area. It is a publication of ""The Washington Post"". , it has the second highest circulation in the District of Columbia after ""The Washington Post"", and is read by 239,500 people every day. The ""Express"" has been published every weekday in a tabloid format since it started publication on August 4, 2003. It is distributed by hawkers at Washington Metro stations and in newspaper racks at other locations throughout the Washington metropolitan area. It is owned and printed by the Washington Post Company, owner"
"Life of Sir Arthur Pearson"", was written by Sidney Dark and published by Hodder and Stoughton. Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, (24 February 1866 – 9 December 1921) was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, best known for founding the ""Daily Express"". Pearson was born in the village of Wookey, Somerset to Arthur Cyril and Phillippa Massingberd Maxwell (née Lyte) Pearson (the granddaughter of the hymn-writer and poet Henry Francis Lyte) and educated at Winchester College in Hampshire. His father was Rector of Drayton Parslow in Buckinghamshire, England. His first job was as a"
"The New Indian Express The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as ""The Indian Express"", under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu. In 1991, following the death of owner Ramnath Goenka, his family split the group into two companies. Initially, the two groups shared the ""Indian Express"" title, as well as editorial and other resources. But on 13 August 1999, the northern editions, headquartered in Mumbai, retained the ""Indian Express"" moniker, while the southern editions became ""The New Indian Express"". Today, the two newspapers"
"of ""The Washington Post"", which is itself owned by Jeff Bezos through a holding company called Nash Holdings LLC. , it had a daily print circulation of 180,000. The ""Express"" is published by Express Publications Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. ""Express"" is written and edited from the ""Washington Post""<nowiki>'s</nowiki> office on Franklin Square in Washington, D.C. Prior to 2010, it was produced from an office in Arlington, Virginia. Printing the newspaper requires over 700 tons of newsprint annually. ""Express"" is written and edited by a staff of 23, up from 13 in 2003. Although"
"""Scottish Daily Express"" building. It is now based at in a purpose-built building in Renfield Street, Glasgow. One of the most traumatic episodes in the history of ""The Glasgow Herald"" was the battle for control and ownership of the paper in 1964. Millionaires Hugh Fraser and Roy Thomson, whose newspaper empire included ""The Glasgow Herald""s archrival, ""The Scotsman"", fought for control of the title for 52 days. Sir Hugh Fraser was to win. The paper's then editor James Holburn was a ""disapproving onlooker"". The Labour Party condemned the battle as ""big business at its worst"". The newspaper changed its name"
"(businessman). Harris advised Forbes 400 member Richard Desmond on the £125 million acquisition of the Express Group, the media company that publishes the Daily and Sunday Express newspaper. Together with German investment banker Jan Huber, who is believed to co-head with Stephan Lotze an advisory boutique exclusively focusing on adult entertainment transactions in the EMEA region, he represented American billionaire, Randy Lerner, in the acquisition of Aston Villa football club, one of the oldest clubs in the world. Lerner is also the owner of the Cleveland Browns whose fortune was originally derived from the MBNA banking group. It was a"
"announced the sale of its digital recruitment businesses in May 2014. DMGT holds stakes in a number of businesses, some as minority investments as well as joint ventures and associates. The head office is located in Northcliffe House in Kensington, London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. In addition to housing the DMGT head office, the building also houses the offices of ""The Independent"" series, ""Daily Mail"", ""Mail on Sunday"", ""Evening Standard"", ""Metro"" and ""Metro.co.uk"". Daily Mail and General Trust Daily Mail and General Trust plc is a British media company, the owner of The ""Daily Mail"" and several other titles."
"Sunday Express (Montreal) The Sunday Express was an English-language weekly newspaper published in Montreal. The paper was published by ""Midnight"" founder Joe Azaria, who also tried without success to turn the paper into a daily, under the name ""Daily Express."" That experiment lasted less than a year, as the paper was unable to compete with the then-dominant ""Montreal Star"" and the second place ""Montreal Gazette"" (now Montreal's only English daily). In 1974, the ""Sunday Express"" was acquired by Quebecor, which ran it until closing the paper in 1985. Contributors included Antonia Zerbisias, who briefly worked there at the start of"
"Daily Mail The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's second-biggest-selling daily newspaper after ""The Sun"". Its sister paper ""The Mail on Sunday"" was launched in 1982, while Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders,"
"by Theodore Dwight, and thus referred to as the ""New York Daily Express"". William B. Townsend of the ""Advertiser"" became a part owner of the ""Express"" with James Brooks. When the Whig Party declined, the ""Express"" supported the Know Nothing movement, and then the Constitutional Union Party, followed by the Democrats. James Brooks remained editor-in-chief of the paper until his death in 1873, and in June 1877 Erastus gave over control to a group led by John Kelly (a boss of Tammany Hall) and Augustus Schell, though he still made contributions to the paper. In late 1881 Cyrus West Field"
"""Daily Mail"" (1995), ""The Sun"" (1999), ""Daily Express"" (2002), ""London Lite"" (2005–2009), MailOnline (2009–2012), the New York Daily News Online (2012–2014) and ""Metro"" (2014–present). In 2004 Young left the ""Daily Express"" after allegedly being punched by its then-owner Richard Desmond. Desmond, who denied attacking Young, was reportedly unhappy that a story about the death of 1960s pop star Carl Wayne had not been included in the newspaper. Young took the ""Daily Express"" to an employment tribunal in 2005 but a settlement was reached the day before the hearing was due to begin. The terms of the settlement were not made"
"R E X, a. s. whose owner is Karol Biermann, holding the company through Florena a. s. Praha. The ownership of the company changed in March 2010, after the company was sold by the former owner, The Northcliffe International Ltd, a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust which publishes i.a. the British ""Daily Mail"". The latter had held ""Pravda"" since 2006. The acquisition was arranged by financial group J&T. Pravda (Slovakia) Pravda (the Slovak word for ""Truth"") is a major centre-left, newspaper in Slovakia. It is owned by PEREX. ""Pravda"" was established in 1920. The average daily circulation of"
"R. D. Blumenfeld Ralph David Blumenfeld (pen-name R.D.B., 7 April 1864 – 17 July 1948) was an American-born journalist, writer and newspaper editor who is chiefly notable for having been in charge of the British newspaper ""Daily Express"" from 1902 to 1932. Blumenfeld was born in Watertown, Wisconsin on 7 April 1864, the fourth son of David Blumenfeld, and his wife Nancy. A former professor from Nuremberg, David Blumenfeld had emigrated to the United States in 1848, where he founded ""Der Weltbürger"", a German language newspaper. Aspiring to follow in his father's footsteps, Blumenfeld began his journalistic career working with"
"wealth was already such that he never took a salary. After the Second World War, the ""Daily Express"" became the largest-selling newspaper in the world, with a circulation of 3,706,000. Beaverbrook launched the ""Sunday Express"" in December 1918, but it only established a significant readership after John Junor became its editor in 1954. In 1923, in a joint deal with Lord Rothermere, Beaverbrook bought the ""Evening Standard"". Beaverbrook acquired a controlling stake in the Glasgow ""Evening Citizen"" and, in 1928, he launched the ""Scottish Daily Express"". Consolidation was rampant. James Curran and Jean Seaton state: Beaverbrook purchased The Vineyard, Fulham,"
"Buffalo Courier-Express The Buffalo Courier-Express was a morning newspaper in Buffalo, New York. It ceased publication in September 1982. The ""Courier-Express"" was created in 1926 by a merger of the ""Buffalo Daily Courier"" and the ""Buffalo Morning Express."" William James Conners, the owner of the ""Buffalo Courier"", brought the two papers together. The combined newspapers claimed a heritage dating to 1828. One notable part-owner and editor of the ""Buffalo Express"" was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, whose tenure at the newspaper lasted from 1869 to 1871. In August 1979, The ""Courier-Express"" was purchased by the Cowles Media"
"is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor, Geordie Greig, who succeeded Paul Dacre in September 2018. A survey in 2014 found the average age of its reader was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15- to 44-year-olds among the major British dailies. Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, it has a majority female readership with women making up 52–55% of its readers. It had an average daily circulation of 1,383,932 copies in November 2017."
"South China Morning Post The South China Morning Post (also known as SCMP or The Post), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong English-language newspaper and Hong Kong's newspaper of record, owned by Alibaba Group. The journal was founded by Australian-born revolutionary Tse Tsan-tai and British journalist Alfred Cunningham (formerly with ""China Mail"", ""Hong Kong Daily Press"" and ""New York Sun"") in 1903. The first edition of the paper was published on 6 November 1903. The journal's circulation has been relatively stable for years—the average daily circulation stands at 100,000. It was owned by Rupert"
"his stake in the paper and bought out owners, the Mirror Group. O'Reilly, who had a high regard for Marr, asked him to collaborate as co-editor with Rosie Boycott, in an arrangement whereby Marr would edit the comment pages, and Boycott would have overall control of the news pages. Many pundits predicted the arrangement would not last and two months later, Boycott left to replace Richard Addis as editor of the ""Daily Express"". Marr was sole editor again, but only for one week. Simon Kelner, who had worked on the paper when it was first launched, accepted the editorship and"
"the announced terms of the settlement, the previous owner, the Media News Group, held a perpetual option to re-purchase 20% of the paper, had two of five seats on the management board, and determined the size of the budget for its news staff and choose its editorial content. The Daily Gazette was required to seek government permission to cease publication of the Daily Mail and the intellectual property of the paper passed to the Media News Group when it shut down. This intellectual property once included the domain name dailymail.com which the newspaper beat the larger London paper in registering"
"In December 1866, the syndicate bought the now defunct ""The Telegraph"" (by this time renamed ""The Daily Telegraph"" with a morning edition and a weekend ""Weekly Mail"") at auction, and incorporated it with ""The Express"" to form ""The Express and Telegraph"". In 1871, when the shareholders were Barrow, Goode, Robert Stuckey, Thomas Graves, William Parkin, Thomas King, James Counsell, and George Williams Chinner, the partnership was dissolved and the business was carried on by Barrow and King. J. H. Barrow died on 22 August 1874, and Thomas King ran the papers for himself and Mrs. Barrow for about five years."
"£88,000 for the two holdings and under the exchange rate of late March 2016, he is believed to have received £460,000 since 2011. Paul Dacre Paul Michael Dacre (; born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British newspaper the ""Daily Mail"". He is also Editor-in-Chief of DMG Media, which publishes the ""Daily Mail"", ""The Mail on Sunday"", the free daily tabloid ""Metro"", the Mailonline website, and other titles. He is a Director of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc (Associated Newspapers' holding group) and was a member of the Press Complaints"
"New York Post The New York Post (sometimes abbreviated as NY Post) is a daily newspaper in New York City. The ""Post"" also operates the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, the entertainment site Decider.com, and co-produces the television show ""Page Six TV"". The modern version of the paper is published in tabloid format. Established in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the ""Post"" for US$30.5 million. Since 1993, the ""Post"" has been owned by News Corporation and its"
"Telegraph Media Group The Telegraph Media Group (TMG, previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of ""The Daily Telegraph"" and ""The Sunday Telegraph"". It is a subsidiary of Press Holdings. David and Frederick Barclay acquired the group in July 2004, after months of intense bidding and lawsuits, from Hollinger Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the newspaper group controlled by the Canadian-born British businessman Conrad Black. In 2015, TMG made an operating profit of £51 million. Profits before tax were £47m, and turnover for the 53 weeks up to 3 January 2016 was £319m, according to unaudited accounts leaked to ""The"
"Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922) was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the ""Daily Mail"" and the ""Daily Mirror"", he was an early developer of popular journalism, and he exercised vast influence over British popular opinion during the Edwardian era. Lord Beaverbrook said he was ""the greatest figure who ever strode down Fleet Street."" About the beginning of the 20th century there were increasing attempts to develop popular journalism intended for the working class and tending to emphasize sensational topics. Harmsworth was the"