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 per day, or 14 stories per hour from Monday to Friday.
The outlet publishes an average of 1,114 stories a day on Saturdays and Sundays. 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 business news publisher globally.
Its closest competitor is the Mirror, which publishes an average of 981 articles per weekday. The Manchester Evening News publishes an average of 160 articles per day from Monday to Friday, ranking seventh among the newspapers studied.
Hoang Ton (according to PG)
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