Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The Guardian Summary

The Guardian is located in the center of London in the United Kingdom. It is one of the largest newspapers in the United Kingdom. It is unique among many papers seeing that it is owned by a foundation, the Scott Trust. The website, guardian.co.uk, is one of the highest-traffic English-language news websites. According to its editor, The Guardian has the second largest online readership of any English-language newspaper in the world, after the New York Times.

Guardian Media Group (often called GMG) owns The Guardian. GMG is based in London. Guardian Media Group owns many different media functions in the UK, making it one of the leading multimedia businesses in the UK. For newspapers, GMG owns The Guardian (the most important thing it owns) and its sister paper The Observer, a paper only published on Sundays. The Observer is the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world. GMG also owns many radio stations throughout the UK and is the third largest radio group in the UK (measured by hours its listeners have listened to the group’s stations). GMG also has divisions that make software for real estate, publish an auto magazine and website in the UK called Auto Trader, and deal with different business-to-business functions for businesses. GMG is owned by a trust called the Scott Trust.

The Guardian covers many different topics. For news, it covers news in the both UK and around the world. The Guardian also covers smaller topics like sports, culture, business, money, life and style, travel, environment, and TV. The Guardian has a strong left wing approach to most issues. Left wing meaning liberal, they generally talk about riots, environment, and other typically liberal topics. They remain one of the most "Left" papers in the UK.

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