Newspaper Ownership in the UK

News UK, Trinity Mirror and DMGT are believed to own 71% of national newspapers.

Lord Rothermere owns 27% of newspapers (The Mail/Mail on Sunday/Metro) which are the second and third most read newspapers in the UK with over 20 million readers.

Rupert Murdoch owns 24% of newspapers (The Sun/The Sun on Sunday/The Times/ The Sunday Times) which are the first and the seventh most read newspapers in the UK with over 18 million readers.

Trinity Mirror Plc. owns 13% of UK Newspapers (The Mirror/The Mirror on Sunday/The People/The Daily Record/The Sunday Mail) with over 9 million readers.

Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev own 10% of national newspapers (The Independent/i/Independent on Sunday/London Evening Standard) with over 7 million readers.

Richard Desmond owns 8% of newspapers (The Daily Express/Sunday Express/Daily Star/Daily Star Sunday) with over 6 millions readers.

Scott Trust owns 7% of newspapers (The Guardian/The Observer) with a readership of over 5 million.

Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev (2016) backed the Conservatives, especially the Tory/Lib-Dem coalition.

Lord Rothermere backed the Conservative party (2016) , especially the Tory/Lib Dem Coalition.

Rupert Murdoch backed the Conservative party (2016).

Scott Trust backed the labour party (2016).

Trinity Mirror backed Labour (2016).

Richard Desmond backed UKIP (2016).

Not only are fewer interests represented but there are fewer opportunities for 'press barons' to be held properly to account.
Media ownership has long been an area of political controversy - particularly when it involves Rupert Murdoch.
The idea of one man or company controlling a large proportion of the nation's newspaper and broadcasting interests is an issue of public concern - particularly when that person takes a close interest in the political agenda of his newspapers and one of them claims to influence general elections.
The famous headline "It's The Sun Wot Won It" appeared on the front page of The Sun on 11 April 1992 after it supported the Conservatives in the lead-up to their election victory.

If newspapers are owned by a minority of people, biases and prejudices wont be challenged or cancel out.

If cultivation theory is correct, the way we vote in elections/referendums may all depend on the newspapers we are exposed to, which somewhat challenging the idea of a democracy.

The audience will have much less of a choice when it comes to what they read and the biases they hold, due to the fact most of them hold the same ideologies as they are owned by the same person/people.

It may create a society where a majority of people's ideas and beliefs will be the same.

News Ownership in the UK

News ownership within the UK is limited already, and seems to be getting more and more limited as time goes on; Trinity Mirror buying out Northern and Shell is an example of this. The fact that News UK, Trinity Mirror and DMGT own 71% of UK newspapers, is something which does seem to be