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Mirror, Express and Star newspaper circulations no longer public

Mirror, Express and Star newspaper circulations no longer public

Published by Sam Flores

UK newsstand. Picture: Shutterstock Print circulation figures for the Mirror, Express and Star newspapers will no longer be made public. Publisher Reach has decided to keep its national newspaper ABC print sales numbers private. This means they will be available only to ad buyers who agree to keep the data confidential. Reach follows in the Sun and Times publisher News UK, Telegraph Media Group and The Guardian, which have all kept their print figures private for more than four years. The changes at Reach cover the following titles: Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Daily Star Sunday, and Scottish titles Daily Record and Sunday Mail. Their final published figures were as follows: Reach’s Sunday tabloids, and the Sunday People in particular, had frequently led the biggest year-on-year circulation declines for a long time. These figures come at the end of a downward print trend that has seen the Daily Mirror down 93% since 2000: This means the only national newspapers that will continue to publish their print circulation figures …

More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media

More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media

Published by Sam Flores

Faces of fakery (left to right): perfume writer Esme Gelder (AI generated byline pic and written work), sex expert (uses photo of porn actress with another name), travel expert Jessie Chambers (AI generated pic and articles). New research from Press Gazette has uncovered a fresh tranche of likely fake and AI-generated experts making their way into UK publications. Press Gazette looked at 50 pieces each from five UK newsbrands which quoted “experts”. The titles were selected because they have all come up in previous Press Gazette research as having published fake and likely AI-generated content shared by PRs. Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 27 experts do not exist, are impossible to track down/verify online or were not named in the first place. Many more stories (not included in the 27) quoted sources where the expertise was merely questionable, such as a widely-quoted gut health expert dispensing health advice with no apparent medical qualifications, quoted in …

Newspaper cover prices rising fast in 2026

Newspaper cover prices rising fast in 2026

Published by Sam Flores

UK newsstand. Picture: Shutterstock UK national newspaper cover prices have increased by an average of 10.2% compared to January 2024, nearly three times the rate of other consumer prices. Daily newspapers’ weekday editions saw prices rise by an average of 11.2% compared to a year ago, while Saturday editions increased by 8.4% and Sunday editions were up by 11.2% Consumer price inflation was reported as 3.6% in the year to December 2025, with food and non-alcoholic beverages up 4.5% and alcohol and tobacco up 4%. Inflation did not rise above 3.8% throughout the year. Six editions kept their cover prices the same throughout the year, including The Times’ Saturday edition, The Sunday Times, all editions of The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times. FT Weekend, which remains the most expensive title among UK-wide national papers, increased its price in the past year by 5.9%, after it kept its price level from January 2024 to January 2025. It has overtaken the average cost of a 175ml glass of wine in the UK since last year. (Press …

Express health editor on assisted dying campaign

Express health editor on assisted dying campaign

Published by Sam Flores

Hanna Geissler and Dan Dove of the Daily Express pick up the Campaign of the Year prize at the British Journalism Awards 2025. Picture: Press Gazette/Adam Duke Photography Daily Express health editor Hanna Geissler said the Give Us Our Last Rights campaign to legalise assisted dying gave a voice to “ordinary people who have something really important to say”. She described Give Us Our Last Rights as a “slow burn” campaign lasting more than four years but said it represented “what journalism should do”. Geissler was speaking after picking up the Public Service Journalism prize at the British Journalism Awards alongside Daily Express new formats editor Dan Dove in December. Geissler wrote about the stories of those who are terminally ill, who have seen loved ones suffer painful deaths or had relatives travel to Dignitas, a Swiss non-profit organisation providing assisted death. In June 2025 MPs approved a bill, which had been led by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, designed to give terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to end their life. It …

Jenrick and Badenoch go to war in fiery Daily Express showdown | Politics | News

Jenrick and Badenoch go to war in fiery Daily Express showdown | Politics | News

Published by Sam Flores

Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick have each vowed to rescue Britain from Labour’s grip following their explosive split. In duelling articles for the Express, both promised to fight for the country’s future after one of the most dramatic days in Westminster. The turmoil erupted on Thursday when shadow cabinet minister Mr Jenrick defected to Reform UK, hours after Mrs Badenoch publicly sacked him on social media. Writing in the Daily Express, the Conservative Party leader said: “Conservatives know Britain cannot be fixed with slogans or grievance politics. It will be fixed with credible, conservative solutions. I will not talk this country down when I know how great it can be. I will tell the truth about what is broken – and then I will fix it. “Britain has faced harder moments than this and emerged stronger every time. Labour are making a terrible mess of the country but, as we have done throughout history, I am confident the Conservative Party will be ready to clean up that mess. We have the team, the plans and …

Latest ABC UK newspaper circulations: Updated monthly

Latest ABC UK newspaper circulations: Updated monthly

Published by Sam Flores

Sunday People front page on 11 August 2024 The Sunday People saw its average weekly print circulation decline by 26.4% year on year to 36,594 in November. The paper has seen the biggest year-on-year drop among the UK’s publicly-audited national newspapers for many months this year, but this is the first time in 2025 the paper has decreased by more than a quarter. The next biggest year-on-year drops were all at Sunday titles: Sunday Express (down 22.6% to 90,534), Sunday Mirror (down 22% to 120,702), Sunday Mail (down 21.9% to 34,573). The Daily Express saw the biggest drop in circulation year on year among daily nationals, falling 19.6% to 104,737 average issues. The paper also fared the worst in its year-on-year weekday and Saturday circulation figures in November, decreasing by 20% for its weekday edition (to 96,394) and 19% for its Saturday edition (to 146,294). The Daily Express also recorded the biggest weekday circulation drop year on year in October (down 20% to 97,319 average issues) and in September (down 19% to 99,861). The Daily …