Research on the Daily Mail

 The Daily Mail is a tabloid style newspaper, which as founded 124 years ago on the 4th May 1896 by Harold and Alfred Harmsworth. The current editor of the paper is Geordie Greig, and he has had that role since September 2018.

The political alignment of the daily mail is Conservative (right wing).

The Daily Mail was released in Scotland in 1947 and Ireland in 2006, it also has a sister paper called the Mail on Sunday which was launched in 1982.

Unusually for a British newspaper, the Daily Mail has a mainly female audience, with women making up 52-55% of the papers readers.

The daily mail has been caught up in a number of controversies over the years, these have been for a number of different reasons, some examples are inaccurate medical scares, unreliability. The paper has also been accused of racism, sexism and homophobia.

There is an online version of the Daily Mail called the Mail Online, however the website has a separate editor (Martin Clarke) and is managed separately. It was launched in 2003, and has an International readership, including different homepages for the USA, UK and Australia. 

The Mail Online has also been in a number of controversies, including when they accused Nicolas Cage of tax evasion in October 2012, and stealing a story Martin Fletcher had written for The Times and putting it under a different name in April 2016.

The Mail Online website is banned in China.