Daily Star
| Daily Star
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| description | British daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Northern & Shell ( United Kingdom ) |
| Headquarters | London |
| First edition | November 2nd 1978 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 429,378 copies |
| ( June 2017 ) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Dawn Neesom |
| Web link | dailystar.co.uk |
The Daily Star is a British tabloid that has appeared since November 2, 1978 . Like the Daily Express, it belongs to the Express Newspapers and thus to Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell group . The circulation was around 430,000 copies in mid-2017. The sister paper, which appears on Sundays, is titled Daily Star Sunday and had a circulation of around 248,000 in May 2017.
The reporting concentrates in a sensational manner on sports and gossip about stars and starlets from the field of show business , soap operas and reality TV . Political attitudes are mostly conservative. As with the competition from The Sun with its " Page Three girls " the photograph of a woman found in each issue, the nude or topless posing.
Due to its coverage of the English Defense League , the newspaper was confronted with allegations of reporting uncritically about this far-right organization. The owner Northern & Shell then distanced itself from “fanaticism and extremism of all kinds” in a letter to Searchlight magazine . In a further statement, she rejected the charge of Islamophobia .
In the case of the missing Madeleine McCann , the paper, like the other Express Newspapers , was sued by the parents of the missing child for defamatory reporting. A settlement was reached in March 2008 with the newspaper group paying £ 550,000 for the Find Madeleine Campaign and all newspapers involved in the campaign putting an apology on the front page.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Print ABCs: Metro overtakes Sun in UK weekday distribution, but Murdoch title quietly Britain's best-selling paper . Press Gazette, June 15, 2017
- ↑ Has the Daily Star decided to back the English Defense League? , Ian Burrell, The Independent, February 10, 2011
- ↑ Has the Daily Star turned its back on the EDL? , Dan Hodges, The New Statesman, March 25, 2011
- ↑ Thomas Kielinger : Great Britain: Newspapers apologize to Maddie's parents . In: The world . March 20, 2008.
- ↑ Kate & Gerry McCann: Sorry . In: Daily Star. March 21, 2008.