Terry Kirby

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New Books in American Studies · Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

His descendants still run it.

One of the few newspapers, you know, is still run by the family.

They still sort enormous control.

They're about to, they put in a bid to buy the British Daily Telegraph newspapers, which would see an amazing concentration of newspapers in their hands.

And the one thing about the Daily Mail, you may or may not like its politics.

It depends on the perspective.

you come from.

But, but I, I, it's one newspaper that has such a firm identity.

And, um, and I always say it knows its audience probably better than Taylor Swift knows our audience.

Well, I mean, that's a very good question.

I think it's a bit difficult to say at the moment because certainly, you know, in the recent election or the election last year of the new Labour Prime Minister, Kirsten Naughton, certainly now the Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, the Labour Party was

petrified of doing anything saying anything which might affect the my anger the tabloids and really we're talking about the Sun and the Daily Mail in the UK the Daily Mirror which is no longer the Daily Mirror but it once was and the Daily Mirror of course was originally founded by Harnsworth in 1904

And it was not an immediate success, but that's a whole other story which I can come back to if you want.

But Keir Starmer and the Labour Party were paranoid about doing anything about the Sun or the Mail.

So they still have quite an influence.

The influence isn't quite the same.

I mean, the Sun circulation is not published these days.

Neither is the Daily Mail.

But it's a fraction of what it was when you're talking about sort of 10 to 12 million people reading those newspapers every day.

Thank you.

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