With the internet giving newsrooms the ability to publish thousands of stories a day, how do the UK's top news outlets compare when it comes to coverage and topics?
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Press Gazette (PG) tracked the content published on the RSS feeds of eight major UK news sites over the week of September 13-19. While the amount of content varies depending on the time of year, the number of reporters present and the intensity of the news agenda, PG wanted to get a snapshot of what the UK’s biggest newsrooms produce in a week.
As a result, Mail Online published the most content of any newsroom under review. Between 13 and 19 September, Mail Online published an average of 1,490 stories a day, or 14 stories an hour from Monday to Friday.
On Saturdays and Sundays, the outlet publishes an average of 1,114 stories a day. Most newsrooms have fewer reporters on duty on weekends. The paper’s owner, DMGT, said in 2020 that it published about 1,700 stories a day across its entire business.
The high-content strategy seems to be working. According to Similarweb, dailymail.co.uk had 392 million visits globally in September, making it the fifth most popular English-language news website in the world and the most popular UK-based commercial news publisher globally.
Its closest competitor is the Mirror, which publishes an average of 981 articles a weekday. The Manchester Evening News publishes an average of 160 articles a day from Monday to Friday, ranking seventh among the newspapers studied.
Hoang Ton (according to PG)
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