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News International Ltd is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
's News Corporation
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc.

The company's major titles are published by three subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers Ltd, News Group Newspapers and NI Free Newspapers Limited. These newspapers are written and published at a large site in Wapping
Wapping

Wapping is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which forms part of the London Docklands to the east of the City of London. It is situated between the north bank of the River Thames and the ancient thoroughfare simply called The Highway....
 in east London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, near Tower Hill, which earned the nickname "Fortress Wapping" after a fierce dispute with the union to which the workforce had previously belonged.






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News International Ltd is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
's News Corporation
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc.

The company's major titles are published by three subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers Ltd, News Group Newspapers and NI Free Newspapers Limited. These newspapers are written and published at a large site in Wapping
Wapping

Wapping is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which forms part of the London Docklands to the east of the City of London. It is situated between the north bank of the River Thames and the ancient thoroughfare simply called The Highway....
 in east London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, near Tower Hill, which earned the nickname "Fortress Wapping" after a fierce dispute with the union to which the workforce had previously belonged. The printing of the papers is now undertaken at Broxbourne
Broxbourne

Broxbourne is a commuter town in the Broxbourne borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England with a population of 13,298 in 2001.It is located 17.1 miles north north-east of Charing Cross in London and about a mile north of Wormley, Hertfordshire and south of Hoddesdon....
 (the world's largest printing plant), Liverpool
Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
 and Glasgow
Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
.

Between 1987 and 1995, News International owned, through its subsidiary News (UK) Ltd, Today
Today (UK newspaper)

Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom, which existed for less than a decade ....
, the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour. All of News International's newspapers (with the exception of thelondonpaper
Thelondonpaper

thelondonpaper is the trading name of a freesheet, published by NI Free Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International . It has been available from Monday to Friday each week in Central London since September 4, 2006....
, launched in 2006) were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago.

In October 2005 News International sold TSL Education, publishers of Times Educational Supplement
Times Educational Supplement

The Times Educational Supplement is a weekly United Kingdom publication covering the world of primary education, secondary education and further education, as well as teaching job vacancies....
 and other education titles, for £235m ($415m). The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation....
, previously part of TSL Education, has been retained by News International as part of this deal. Darwin ltd, who had taken over the company, continued to produce the same product.

Its main competitor is Associated Newspapers
Associated Newspapers

Associated Newspapers is a large national newspaper publisher in the UK, which is a subsidiary of the Daily Mail and General Trust. The group was established in 1905 and is currently based at Northcliffe House in Kensington....
, which is in turn owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust
Daily Mail and General Trust

Daily Mail and General Trust plc is one of the Europe largest media companies and has interests in national and regional newspapers, television and radio....
.

News International Newspapers Limited


Times Newspapers

Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact
Compact (newspaper)

A compact newspaper is a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format, especially in the United Kingdom. The term came into use in its current form when The Independent began producing a smaller format edition for London's commuters, designed to be easier to read on the train/London Underground/bus....
 daily newspaper The Times
The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
 and the broadsheet The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times ...
.

Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation
Thomson Corporation

The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies.Thomson was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science & technology research, and tax & accounting sectors....
 purchased The Times from the Astor family and merged it with The Sunday Times, which it owned since 1959. This company was purchased by Murdoch's News International in February 1981. In 2006 an American edition of The Times was launched in New York, Boston and some other east coast U.S. cities.

Murdoch states that the law and the independent board prevents him from exercising editorial control.

News Group Newspapers

News Group Newspapers publishes the tabloid newspapers The Sun
The Sun (newspaper)

The Sun is a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland with the highest Newspaper circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world and the biggest circulation within the UK, standing at an average of 3,121,000 copies a day between January and June 2008 and with a daily readership of a...
 and the News of the World
News of the World

The News of the World is a United Kingdom tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. It is published by News Group Newspapers of News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and can be considered the Sunday equivalent of The Sun ....
.

The News of the World Organisation was purchased in January 1969. The Sun was acquired in October 1969 from Mirror Group Newspapers.

Murdoch states that he acts as a "traditional proprietor"; exercising editorial control on major issues such as which political party to back in a general election or policy on Europe.

NI Free Newspapers Limited


thelondonpaper
Thelondonpaper

thelondonpaper is the trading name of a freesheet, published by NI Free Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International . It has been available from Monday to Friday each week in Central London since September 4, 2006....
 was the first newspaper to be launched by News International rather than bought. It is an evening freesheet for the London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 Zone 1
Travelcard Zone 1

Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for London's zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London....
 and Zone 2
Travelcard Zone 2

Travelcard Zone 2 is the second most central zone of Transport for London's six zones system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal fares, and fares for London Underground and Docklands Light Railway single journeys....
 areas.

Other holdings

  • News International (Advertisements) Limited
  • News International Associated Services Limited
  • News International Distribution Limited
  • News International Newspapers (Knowsley) Limited
  • News International Newspapers (Scotland) Limited
  • News International Pension Trustees Limited
  • News International Supply Company Limited
  • News International Television Investment Company Limited
  • News International Television Limited
  • NI Syndication Limited


See also


  • News Corporation
    News Corporation

    News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
  • News Limited
    News Limited

    News Limited was the principal holding for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch until the formation of News Corporation in 1979. News Limited is now a subsidiary of that company....
  • News International
  • Rupert Murdoch
    Rupert Murdoch

    Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....


External links

  • , January 15, 2006 - The Observer
    The Observer

    The Observer is a United Kingdom newspaper published on Sundays. In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, it takes a Liberalism/social democratic line on most issues....
    :
    • Three views of the industrial dispute twenty years on.