[147] The newspaper confirmed on 11th January that personal details of all UK staff had been accessed by criminals.[148]. An internal inquiry at Carlton found that The Guardian's allegations were in large part correct and the then industry regulator, the ITC, punished Carlton with a record 2 million fine[75] for multiple breaches of the UK's broadcasting codes. [223] An Android app followed in 2011. [22] They launched the paper, on 5 May 1821 (by chance the very day of Napoleon's death) after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo Massacre protesters. Katharine Viner is the 12th editor-in-chief in the Guardians history, a position she has held since June 2015. In 1959 the newspaper changed its title from the Manchester Guardian to the Guardian, to reflect the growing importance of national and international affairs in the newspaper. This innovation was widely copied by the other "quality" broadsheets and ultimately led to the rise of "compact" papers and The Guardian's move to the Berliner format. [84] Aslam was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist group, and had published a number of articles on their website. Media Type: Newspaper "[24] When the government closed down the Manchester Observer, the mill-owners' champions had the upper hand. Aitken publicly stated that he would fight with "the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play". The Scott Trust describes one of its "core purposes" to be "to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity: as a quality national newspaper without party affiliation; remaining faithful to its liberal tradition". Under Rusbridger, the paper expanded into the U.S. and became one of the . [17] The investigation led to the closure of the News of the World, the UK's best-selling Sunday newspaper and one of the highest-circulation newspapers in history. The financial position remained extremely poor into the 1970s; at one time it was in merger talks with The Times. [206][207] Among the fonts is Guardian Egyptian, a slab serif that is used in various weights for both text and headlines, and is central to the redesign. In December 2007, it was announced that GMG and Apax had made a successful bid to buy Emap's business-to-business arm for around 1 billion.[8]. Known media shareholdings - click ? Despite the critical position of the paper in general, The Guardian endorsed the Labour Party whilst Corbyn was its leader in the 2017[192] and 2019 general elections although in both cases they endorsed a vote for opposition parties other than Labour, such as the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party in seats where Labour did not stand a chance. [120] The reporting injunction was lifted the next day, as Carter-Ruck withdrew it before The Guardian could challenge it in the High Court. The Guardian was consistently loss-making until 2019. [123], In June 2013, the newspaper broke news of the secret collection of Verizon telephone records held by Barack Obama's administration[19][124] and subsequently revealed the existence of the PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to the paper by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. [167] The grants are focused by the donors on particular issues. [235][236][237], In 2003, The Guardian started the film production company GuardianFilms, headed by journalist Maggie O'Kane. In November 2007, The Guardian and The Observer made their archives available over the internet via DigitalArchive. Science & Health Journalist of the Year (Sarah Boseley, 2016); Business & Finance Journalist of the Year (Ian Griffiths, 2005; Sports Reporter of the Year (David Lacey, 2002); Sports Photographer of the Year (Tom Jenkins, 2003, 2005, 2006. He was also a Liberal Member of Parliament. [311] Now known as The Guardian News & Media archive, the archive preserves and promotes the histories and values of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers by collecting and making accessible material that provides an accurate and comprehensive history of the papers. Who owns the Guardian? The Guardian asked Aslam to resign his membership of the group and, when he did not do so, terminated his employment. [10][11] Since 2018, the paper's main newsprint sections have been published in tabloid format. In review, story selection favors the left but is generally factual. [177] On 19 January 2003, two months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an Observer Editorial said: "Military intervention in the Middle East holds many dangers. According to The New York Times, The Guardian refused to set up a paywall the preferred strategy of many of its rivals, from The Times of London to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times opting instead to ask its readers for donations, even setting up a nonprofit arm to help fund its journalism.. Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British-based mass media company owning various media operations including The Guardian and The Observer. Guardian Media Group appoints Anna Bateson as chief executive. The Guardian U.S. was launched in 2011 in New York. [89] The newspaper played a pivotal role in exposing the depth of the News of the World phone hacking affair. [135] Ecuador's London consul Fidel Narvez, who had worked at Ecuador's embassy in London from 2010 to July 2018, denied that Manafort's visits had happened. [18][19], In August 2022, Anna Bateson was appointed as chief executive. The UN has reaffirmed this position on several occasions, and almost every country now has its embassy in Tel Aviv. [252], Guardian journalists have won a range of British Press Awards, including:[249]. Traffic/Popularity: HighTraffic [44], C. P. Scott made the newspaper nationally recognised. Another press was shared with the Guardian Media Group's north-western tabloid local papers, which did not wish to switch to the Berliner format. [51] With the pro-Liberal News Chronicle, the Labour-supporting Daily Herald, the Communist Party's Daily Worker and several Sunday and weekly papers, it supported the Republican government against General Francisco Franco's insurgent nationalists. [32] It welcomed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 and accepted the "increased compensation" to the planters as the "guilt of slavery attaches far more to the nation" rather than individuals. The Guardian is the only British national daily to conduct (since 2003) an annual social, ethical and environmental audit in which it examines, under the scrutiny of an independent external auditor, its own behaviour as a company. 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The Group's 2022 annual report (for the year ending 3 April 2022) indicated that the Scott Trust Endowment Fund was valued at 1.28 billion, while in 2021 it was valued at 1.14 billion.[2]. Sports Feature Writer of the Year (Donald McRae, 2017, Sports Website of the Year (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), Sports Journalists' Association Sports Portfolio of the Year (Tom Jenkins, 2011), This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 19:31. [5] Along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. Founded by textile traders and merchants, in its early years The Guardian had a reputation as "an organ of the middle class",[173] or in the words of C. P. Scott's son Ted, "a paper that will remain bourgeois to the last". The Foundation is an independent charity with a focus on journalism education, promoting human rights and the right to information. Scott Trust Limited was created in 1936 to ensure the editorial independence of the publications and owns Guardian Media Group plc (GMG). [199] In July 2021, the circulation was 105,134; later that year, the publishers stopped making circulation data public.[4]. This programme often draws on the archive collections held in the GNM Archive. The Guardians values of honesty, integrity, courage, fairness, and a sense of duty to the reader and the community were outlined by its owner and editor of more than 50 years, CP Scott, in his centenary editorial on 5 May 1921. [160] In the following financial report (for the year 20182019), the group reported a profit (EBITDA) of 0.8 million before exceptional items, thus breaking even in 2019. Now it's Hamas' turn." Its original name is The Manchester Guardian, and cotton merchant John Edward Taylor founded it. In 1991, it had a 20% stake in a consortium which included London Weekend Television, Scottish Television, The Walt Disney Company and Carlton Communications for a new ITV breakfast franchise called GMTV. Read more about Guardian Media Group, its responsibilities and financial reports. In June 1993, The Guardian bought The Observer from Lonrho, thus gaining a serious Sunday sister newspaper with similar political views. This included the flagship Manchester Evening News, and severed the historic link between that paper and The Guardian. In the existing Irish situation, most regrettably, it is also inevitable .To remove the ringleaders, in the hope that the atmosphere might calm down, is a step to which there is no obvious alternative. Elliott noted that, over nine months, he upheld complaints regarding language in certain articles that were seen as anti-Semitic, revising the language and footnoting this change. [240][241] The same year, The Guardian's Katine website was awarded for its outstanding new media output at the One World Media awards. [40], There was division in Britain over the Civil War, even within political parties. The only controversy was over the dropping of the Doonesbury cartoon strip. Overall, we rate The Guardian Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks over the last five years. [208] This switch was necessary because, before The Guardian's move, no printing presses in Britain could produce newspapers in the Berliner format. Guardian Monthly was a glossy magazine published by the Guardian Media Group for readers around the world. [213] The Guardian confirmed the launch date for the new format to be 15 January 2018. Learn more about who owns the GMG and how it is funded About Guardian Media Group. [246] The newspaper was printed in Manchester until 1961 and the fact that the prints sent to London by train were the early, more error-prone, prints may have contributed to this image as well. [108] The following month, the company laid off six American employees, including a reporter, a multimedia producer and four web editors. was created in 1936 to ensure the editorial independence of the publications and owns Guardian Media Group plc (GMG). [121] Alan Rusbridger attributed the rapid back-down by Carter-Ruck to postings on Twitter,[122] as did a BBC News Online article. [25], The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, and all of the Little Circle wrote articles for the new paper. The paper was enthusiastic in its support for Tony Blair in his successful bid to lead the Labour Party,[176] and to be elected Prime Minister. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. The proportion of lung cancer cases only diagnosed after a visit to an A&E ranges from 15% in Guildford and Waverley in Surrey to 56% in Tower Hamlets and Manchester. Read more about the Scott Trust board, and the Trusts history, values and investments. [212], In June 2017, Guardian Media Group (GMG) announced that The Guardian and The Observer would relaunch in tabloid format from early 2018. It suggested that the United States should compensate slave-owners for freeing slaves[36] and called on President Franklin Pierce to resolve the 1856 "civil war", the Sacking of Lawrence due to pro-slavery laws imposed by Congress. [73] In 1999, Aitken was jailed for perjury and perverting the course of justice.[74]. The Guardian is printed in full colour,[203] and was the first newspaper in the UK to use the Berliner format for its main section, while producing sections and supplements in a range of page sizes including tabloid, approximately A4, and pocket-size (approximately A5). [139][clarification needed], After publishing a story on 13 January 2017 claiming that WhatsApp had a "backdoor [that] allows snooping on messages", more than 70 professional cryptographers signed on to an open letter calling for The Guardian to retract the article. [218] As of May 2013, it was the most popular UK newspaper website with 8.2 million unique visitors per month, just ahead of Mail Online with 7.6 million unique monthly visitors. It has been named "newspaper of the year" four times at the annual British Press Awards: most recently in 2014, for its reporting on government surveillance. Gott resigned from his post. In February 2010, the group sold its GMG Regional Media division (consisting of two companies MEN Media and S&B Media which operated 31 local and regional newspaper titles) to Trinity Mirror for 44.8 million. [146] The print edition also continued to be produced. In October 1952, the paper took the step of printing news on the front page, replacing the adverts that had hitherto filled that space. [3], Although the paper is often considered to be "linked inextricably" to the Labour Party,[175] three of The Guardian's four leader writers joined the more centrist Social Democratic Party on its foundation in 1981. [191] Although the majority of Guardian columnists were against Corbyn winning, Owen Jones, Seumas Milne, and George Monbiot wrote supportive articles about him. The Scott Trust Limited is the British company that owns Guardian Media Group and thus The Guardian and The Observer as well as various other media businesses in the UK. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. [243] This anagram played on The Guardian's early reputation for frequent typographical errors, including misspelling its own name as The Gaurdian. [101], In August 2004, for the US presidential election, the daily G2 supplement launched an experimental letter-writing campaign in Clark County, Ohio, an average-sized county in a swing state. [197] In March 2013, its average daily circulation had fallen to 193,586, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. [100] One week later, Chris Elliott expressed the opinion that the newspaper should have rejected the language used in the advert and should have negotiated with the advertiser on this matter. [57] In September 1961, The Guardian, which had previously only been published in Manchester, began to be printed in London. It includes sections from a number of other internationally significant newspapers of a somewhat left-of-centre inclination, including Le Monde and The Washington Post. [6] The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference". [96], The Guardian's style guide section referred to Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel in 2012. The editors were working on changing aspects that had caused complaints from readers. The Newsroom's other components were also transferred to Kings Place in 2008. After CP Scott, his son John Russell Scott became the Manchester Guardians manager and founder of the Scott Trust. The Manchester Guardian was renamed the Guardian in 1959. GMG corporate website. Toffs, including royal ones, Christians, especially popes, governments of Israel, and U.S. Republicans are more straightforward targets. [40], According to Martin Kettle, writing for The Guardian in February 2011, "The Guardian had always hated slavery. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. [239] In 2008, photojournalist Sean Smith's Inside the Surge won the Royal Television Society award for best international news film the first time a newspaper has won such an award. Guardian Media Group annual financial reports, GMG and the Scott Trust: key questions answered. [46], Scott commissioned J. M. Synge and his friend Jack Yeats to produce articles and drawings documenting the social conditions of the west of Ireland; these pieces were published in 1911 in the collection Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara. Alleged penetration by Russian intelligence, Edward Snowden leaks and intervention by the UK government, Notable regular contributors (past and present). "[64] Before then, in 1969, The Guardian had called for British troops to be sent to the region, stating that their deployment could "present a more disinterested face of law and order,"[65] but only on condition that "Britain takes charge. Its original name is The Manchester Guardian, and cotton merchant John Edward Taylor founded it. According to the newspaper, it did not know that Aslam was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir when he applied to become a trainee, though several staff members were informed of this once he started at the paper. The Guardian has stated that it has secured $6million "in multi-year funding commitments" thus far. The spoof column purported to be excerpts from a chatroom on permachat.co.uk, a real URL that pointed to The Guardian's talkboards. [12] Andrew Miller, previously the chief financial officer of the Group, was chief executive from July 2010 to 2015. [1] Katherine Viner has been the editor-in-chief at The Guardian since 2015. "[33] However, the newspaper argued against restricting trade with countries which had not yet abolished slavery. This indicates that a more liberal audience strongly prefers the Guardian. [7] It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. (5/18/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 09/10/2022), Last Updated on September 10, 2022 by Media Bias Fact Check, Left vs. [136][137], Journalist Glenn Greenwald, a former contributor to The Guardian, has accused The Guardian of falsifying the words of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a report about the interview he gave to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. The paper consolidated its centre-left stance during the 1970s and 1980s. [95], On 6 November 2011, Chris Elliott, The Guardian's readers' editor, wrote that "Guardian reporters, writers and editors must be more vigilant about the language they use when writing about Jews or Israel," citing recent cases where The Guardian received complaints regarding language chosen to describe Jews or Israel. [97][98] The Guardian later clarified: "In 1980, the Israeli Knesset enacted a law designating the city of Jerusalem, including East Jerusalem, as the country's capital. He was also a Liberal Member of Parliament. The new format was generally well received by Guardian readers, who were encouraged to provide feedback on the changes. [41] By then, the Union blockade was causing suffering in British towns. Available solely in an online format, the newspaper's launch was led by Katharine Viner in time for the 2013 Australian federal election and followed the introduction of Guardian US in 2011. In July 2007, the Guardian Media Group announced the cancellation of the Guardian Monthly. As well as corporate records, the archive holds correspondence, diaries, notebooks, original cartoons and photographs belonging to staff of the papers. There were 656 similar admissions at Newcastle hospitals and 656 at the Royal Free London hospitals. The style guide has been amended accordingly. The Scott Trust Limited, which exists to ensure The Guardian's financial and editorial independence in perpetuity, owns the whole group. . [150] It is also the only British national daily newspaper to employ an internal ombudsman (called the "readers' editor") to handle complaints and corrections. The group is wholly owned by the Scott Trust Limited, which exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity. The Guardian Weekly was also linked to a website for expatriates, Guardian Abroad, which was launched in 2007 but had been taken offline by 2012. Find out who owns the Guardian, our history and what we do. 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[245] One Guardian writer, Keith Devlin, suggested that the high number of observed misprints was due more to the quality of the readership than the misprints' greater frequency. GMG board. The Guardian Media Group's owner, the Scott Trust Endowment Fund, reported that its value at the time was 1.01 billion (2017: 1.03 billion). You can view the Guardian U.S. editorial team here. The move is part of a three-year plan that includes cutting 300 jobs in an attempt to reduce losses and break even by 2019. An extensive Manchester Guardian archive also exists at the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library, and there is a collaboration programme between the two archives. The Company offers newspaper, advertising, sponsored content, and syndication services, as well as provides online . There were additional complications, as one of the paper's presses was part-owned by Telegraph Newspapers and Express Newspapers, contracted to use the plant until 2009. [23] Taylor had been hostile to the radical reformers, writing: "They have appealed not to the reason but the passions and the suffering of their abused and credulous fellow-countrymen, from whose ill-requited industry they extort for themselves the means of a plentiful and comfortable existence. [3] In 2018, The Guardian switched to a tabloid format. A2014 Pew Research Survey found that 72% of The Guardians audience is consistently or primarily liberal, 20% Mixed, and 9% consistently or mostly conservative. [126] The Guardian's offices were then visited in July by agents from the UK's GCHQ, who supervised the destruction of the hard drives containing information acquired from Snowden. [3] Frequent typographical errors during the age of manual typesetting led Private Eye magazine to dub the paper the "Grauniad" in the 1960s, a nickname still occasionally used by the editors for self-mockery. 25 Aug 2022. The Scott Trust is the sole shareholder of Guardian Media Group (GMG), of which Guardian News & Media is the core business. In addition to two Amnesty International Media Awards in 2004 and 2005, The Baghdad Blogger: Salam Pax won a Royal Television Society Award in 2005. "[187], In a 2013 interview for NPR, The Guardian's Latin America correspondent Rory Carroll stated that many editors at The Guardian believed and continue to believe that they should support Hugo Chvez "because he was a standard-bearer for the left". She replaced David Pemsel who left to take up a role at the Premier League. Ad-Free Sign up War with Iraq may yet not come, but, conscious of the potentially terrifying responsibility resting with the British Government, we find ourselves supporting the current commitment to a possible use of force. [185] At the 2015 election, the paper switched its support to the Labour Party. The Manchester Guardian had also been conflicted. "more or less everything the liberal left holds dear is not only an inversion of the truth, but constitutes a suicidal undermining of western civilisation. The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 03/04/2023, MBFCs Weekly Media Literacy Quiz Covering the Week of Feb 25 Mar 3rd, The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 03/03/2023, Daily Source Bias Check: The Event Chronicle. In the first year, the paper made more losses than predicted, and in January 2016 the publishers announced, that The Guardian will cut 20 per cent of staff and costs within the next three years. The paper argued that Britain needed a new direction and Labour "speaks with more urgency than its rivals on social justice, standing up to predatory capitalism, on investment for growth, on reforming and strengthening the public realm, Britain's place in Europe and international development".