Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily tabloid newspaper and one of the most widely read papers in the UK, with a major global website. It is widely regarded as right-leaning in editorial orientation and covers news, politics, celebrity, and lifestyle for a mass audience. Its online edition reaches large international audiences.

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Daily Mail at a glance

Country: United Kingdom
Region: Northern Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Tabloid
Editorial leaning: Right-leaning
Founded: 1896
Owner: DMG Media (Daily Mail and General Trust)
Published from: London
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How Crosswire groups Daily Mail

Crosswire groups Daily Mail as Right-leaning for comparisons within the United Kingdom's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In the United Kingdom, The Guardian is listed as Left-leaning, while BBC News and Financial Times are listed as Centrist — so you can open Daily Mail beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Daily Mail sits in the United Kingdom's press

Daily Mail was founded in 1896, is published from London and is owned by DMG Media (Daily Mail and General Trust). It is one of 9 outlets tracked in the United Kingdom, and one of 2 tabloids among them — the other being The Sun. By outlets tracked, the United Kingdom ranks fifth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 19 of the 23 tabloids in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Daily Mail outside the United Kingdom, starting with Northern Europe, are BILD (Germany), Kronen Zeitung (Austria), Blick (Switzerland) and Correio da Manhã (Portugal). Opening one of them beside Daily Mail is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.