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Owned by the BBC
Was founded in November the 14th, 1922, London
World's largest broadcast news organisation
Services include radio, internet and television broadcasts
responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs
The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world
The department's annual budget is £350 million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists

Launched on the 5 February 1989
is a 24-hour international, multi-media news operation based in Britain
provides non-stop rolling news on television, online, a range of mobile devices and international radio news to commercial radio stations in the UK
Sky News has also grown into a digital operation through its website and mobile apps
Owned by PLC

First episode date: November 2, 1982
Presented by: Jon Snow, Jackie Long, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Matt Frei, Cathy Newman
Network: Channel 4
Channel 4 News is among the highest rated television programmes in the United Kingdom
Producers are ITN

First episode date: April 4, 1972
Networks: British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC One, BBC Two
Writers: Dawn Harrison, Micky Dacks
News for children
It was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children
The programme is aimed at 6 to 12-year-olds.

The Cable News Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel
owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner
The 24-hour cable news channel was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner
Founded: June 1, 1980, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage
Was the first all-news television channel in the United States

The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Founded in 1964 as a successor broadsheet to the Daily Herald, it became a tabloid in 1969
It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK,
The Sun had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, but in late 2013 slipped to second largest Saturday newspaper behind the Daily Mail
It had an average daily circulation of 2.2 million copies in March 2014
Editor Tony Gallagher

Format is a tabloid
Founded in 1896
owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.
aimed at the newly-literate "lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks
the first British paper to sell a million copies a day

Format is Berliner
Founded in 1821
Owner is Guardian Media Group
a British national daily newspaper
In the UK, its combined print and online editions reach nearly 9 million readers
In the 2015 UK general election, The Guardian endorsed the Labour Party.In the previous general election it supported the Liberal Democrats

a popular daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom
first published on 2 November 1978
Its cover price has decreased over the years in order to compete with its rival The Sun
The Daily Star is published by Express Newspapers
The paper predominantly focuses on stories largely revolving around celebrities, sport, and news and gossip about popular television programmes, such as soap operas and reality TV shows.
Its editor is Dawn Neesom

a British daily morning English-language broadsheet newspaper, published in London by Telegraph Media Group
distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally.
The newspaper was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier
since 2004 has been owned by David and Frederick Barclay
The Daily Telegraph has a sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph
It had a daily circulation of 523,048 in March 2014

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