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Passionate. Principled. Purposeful.

 

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.


Our Mission

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information. We are committed to treating our colleagues and our audiences with respect, to promoting diversity & inclusion and driving sustainability.


Our responsible media charter

We stand for a free press as an instrument of democracy. We make rigorous legal checks on all of our content and our trusted media brands are regulated by IPSO, which has powers to investigate complaints and impose penalties. Our radio stations have strict compliance processes and abide by the Ofcom code of practice. All of our journalists abide by the law and by the Editors Code. We believe in ethical data practices, brand safety and supply chain transparency.


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News In Numbers


3 in 4

Shoppers reached by our titles each month

1,274m

The number of papers Newsprinters printed and delivered in 2020

16

Sites across the UK and Ireland

145

Kickstart interns and apprentices will join News UK in the next year

3.4m

The number of people News UK’s titles reach every month

58,720,829

Number of times our podcasts have been listened to in the last year

800 tonnes

Amount of single-use plastics we’ve removed from our supply chain

8,200 hours

Hours of live sport broadcasted by talkSPORT each year

Our Executive Team

Our History

Our titles have a long history of innovation and campaigning for change. The Times is the oldest UK national newspaper in existence. Often referred to as ‘the paper of record’, it was first published as The Daily Universal Register on January 1, 1785. The Sunday Times followed on October 23, 1822 and has become renowned for the quality of its investigative journalism, design and editing, and for its coverage of British politics and the arts.  The first issue of The Sun published in tabloid format and under the ownership of Rupert Murdoch was on November 17 1969. The Sun soon became the people's paper, sitting right at the heart of the national conversation.