Media Owners

Who are the media owners? What do they control? We're finding out, and here's an index to what we have discovered so far.

Each link below leads to the owner's corporate website, some information on shareholdings, a list of what it publishes and/or broadcasts and articles about it from the Freelance and elsewhere (in each case subject to the information being available).

Owner name	Code	info status
[ independents ]	__misc	Sketch
A&S Publishing	_AS	Sketch
Adscene	_Adscene	Xtinct
Advance Publications Inc.	_Advance	Draft
Agence France Presse	_AFP	Sketch
Archant - Eastern Counties Newspapers	_ECN	Research
Ashdown Publishing	_Ashdown	Sketch
Ashton Weekly Newspapers	_Ashton	Sketch
Associated / Northcliffe (DMGT)	_Assoc	Draft
Axel Springer GmbH	_Springr	Sketch
Axon publishing	_Axon	Sketch
Bain Capital	_Bain	Stakehld
The Barclay Brothers	_BarcB	Draft
Bauer, Heinrich	_Bauer	Sketch
The BBC	_BBC	Draft
Bertelsmann	_Bert	Draft
Big Issue	_BI	Sketch
Black Press	_BlackPr	Sketch
Blackstone Group LP	_Blackst	Stakehld
Bristol United Press	_BUP	Xtinct
Brooklands publishing	_Brookl	Sketch
BSkyB	_BSkyB	Sketch
Builder group	_Builder	Sketch
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	_CBC	Sketch
Candover	_Candovr	Stakehld
CanWest	_CanWest	Sketch
Carlton Communications	_Carlton	Sketch
Carlton USA	_CarltUS	Sketch
Caspian Publishing	_Caspian	Sketch
Cedar Communications	_Cedar	Sketch
Centaur Communications	_Centaur	Sketch
Centurion Publishing Group	_Centu	Sketch
Chadwick House Publishing	_Chadw	Sketch
Channel 4	_C4	Draft
Channel 5 TV	_C5	Draft
Cinven	_Cinven	Stakehld
Clear Channel	_Clear	Research
Clyde and Forth Press	_CF	Sketch
Cofina	_Cofina	Sketch
Cond» Nast	_CondN	Research
Conquest Business Media	_Conq	Sketch
Corbis Picture Library	_Corbis	Draft
Cream publishing	_Cream	Sketch
Crosbie, Thomas, Holdings	_Crosbie	Research
Crown Castle International	_CrownCa	Stakehld
CRU International	_CRU	Sketch
D C Thomson	_DCT	Research
Dennis	_Dennis	Research
Descartes Publishing Ltd	_Descart	Sketch
Development Hell	_DH	Sketch
Discovery Communications Inc	_Discovr	Sketch
Disney	_Disney	Sketch
Dorling Kindersley	_DK	Sketch
Dow-Jones	_DOW	Xtinct
Economia, Prague	_Economi	Sketch
EMAP	_EMAP	Xtinct
EMI Group	_EMI	Sketch
Essential Publishing	_Essent	Xtinct
Fairchild	_Fairch	Sketch
Findlay Publications	_Findlay	Sketch
Flextech	_Flextec	Sketch
Forward	_Forward	Sketch
Fox entertainment group	_Fox	Sketch
Freeview	_Freeviw	Sketch
Future	_Future	Research
Gabriel Communications Ltd	_Gabriel	Sketch
Gannett Corporation	_Gannett	Draft
Garnett-Dickinson Publishing	_GDP	Sketch
GCap media plc	_Gcap	Research
General Electric	_GE	Stakehld
Getty Archive	_Getty	Draft
Golden Rose Communications	_GoldR	Sketch
Good Morning Television	_GMTV	Sketch
Google, Inc	_Google	Sketch
Granada	_Granada	Sketch
Great West Newspaper Group Ltd	_GreatW	Sketch
Gruner and Jahr	_GJ	Current
Guardian Media Group	_GMG	Draft
Hachette Filipacchi	_Hach	Draft
Haymarket	_HM	Draft
Hearst Corporation	_Hearst	Sketch
Her Majesty's Britannic Government	_HMG	Sketch
Herts & Essex Newspapers	_HEN	Draft
Highbury Publications	_Highbur	Xtinct
Hola! SA	_Hola	Sketch
Holderness Newspapers (no reln)	_Holdern	Sketch
Houghton Mifflin	_HMiff	Sketch
Hubert Burda Media	_Burda	Sketch
IDG - International Data Group	_IDG	Sketch
Impromptu Publishing	_Impromp	Sketch
Incisive Media	_IncisiM	Sketch
Independent News & Media	_INM	Draft
Independent Radio News	_IRN	Research
Independent Television News	_ITN	Draft
Informa	_Informa	Sketch
Ink publishing	_Ink	Sketch
Investment fund (generically)	_Funds	Stakehld
IPC	_IPC	Current
Irish News Ltd	_Inews	Sketch
Irish Times Trust	_ITtrust	Sketch
ITV - Independent Television	_ITV	Research
Jane's Information Group	_Janes	Sketch
John Brown Citrus	_Brown	Sketch
Johnston Press plc	_Johnsto	Research
Kent Messenger Group	_KMG	Sketch
Kirch Media Group	_Kirch	Sketch
Kluwer Academic Publishing	_Kluwer	Xtinct
Knight Ridder	_KR	Sketch
Lagard¿re	_Lagard	Stakehld
Larousse	_Larouss	Sketch
Liberty Media Corporation	_Liberty	Stakehld
LineOne	_LineOne	Sketch
Live Publishing	_Live	Sketch
The Local Radio Company	_TLRC	Sketch
London Financial News Publishing Ltd	_LFNP	Sketch
London Freelance Branch, NUJ	_NUJ_LFB	Sketch
Lusomundo Media	_Luso	Sketch
Lycos, inc	_Lycos	Sketch
La Martiniere	_lamarti	Sketch
McGraw-Hill	_McGraw	Research
Mecom plc	_Mecom	Draft
Merricks media	_Merrick	Sketch
Metro International	_Metro	Sketch
Midland News Association	_MNA	Sketch
Miller Freeman	_MF	Sketch
Mirkaei Tikshoret Ltd.	_Mirkaei	Sketch
Mirror Group Newspapers	_MGN	Xtinct
Morgan-Grampian	_MG	Xtinct
Morton Newspapers	_Morton	Draft
National Geographic Society	_NatGeo	Sketch
National Magazines	_NatMag	Research
NBC Universal	_NBC	Sketch
New Journal Enterprises	_NJE	Sketch
New York Times company	_NYT	Research
News International (Murdoch)	_NI	Draft
Newscom	_Newscom	Xtinct
NewsQuest plc	_NQ	Current
North Wales Newspapers	_NWN	Sketch
Northern+Shell	_NS	Research
NTL	_NTL	Stakehld
OnDigital	_OnDigit	Xtinct
Ontario Community Newspapers Assn.	_ocna	Sketch
Optipress	_Optipr	Xtinct
Origin Publishing	_Origin	Sketch
Orkla Media	_Orkla	Sketch
Orpheus Publications	_Orpheus	Sketch
Osprey Media Group	_Osprey	Sketch
Paragon Publishing	_Paragon	Xtinct
Pearson	_Pearson	Research
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA	_PortT	Stakehld
Press Association	_PA	Research
Publicis Blueprint	_publicb	Sketch
Quantum	_Quantum	Research
Quarto Books, Inc	_Quarto	Sketch
Quebecor	_QuebecC	Sketch
The Radio Centre	_CRCA	Stakehld
Radio Investments	_RIL	Sketch
Radio Telefís Éireann	_RTE	Research
Reader's Digest Association	_RD	Draft
Redwood Publishing	_Redwood	Research
Reed Business Information	_RBI	Draft
Reed-Elsevier	_RE	Research
Regional Independent Media	_RIM	Xtinct
Reuters	_Reuter	Research
River publishing	_River	Sketch
Rodale Press	_Rodale	Sketch
RTL Group	_RTL	Draft
Saban Capital Group	_Saban	Stakehld
Score newspapers	_Score	Draft
Scottish Media Group	_SMG	Draft
Scottish Provincial Press	_SPP	Sketch
Scottish Radio Holdings	_SRH	Research
Sianel 4 Cymru	_S4C	Sketch
Smurfitt	_Smurf	Sketch
Socpress	_Socpres	Sketch
Sony	_Sony	Sketch
Southnews plc	_SouthN	Xtinct
Springer Verlag	_SpringV	Sketch
Sun-Times (formerly Hollinger International)	_Holl	Draft
Talentum (Finland)	_Talentm	Sketch
TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH	_Taz	Sketch
TeleWest communications plc	_TeleW	Stakehld
Terrapinn	_Terrapn	Sketch
This England Ltd	_thiseng	Sketch
Thomas H Lee Partners	_THLee	Stakehld
Thomson Corporation	_Thomson	Sketch
Time Out	_TOut	Sketch
Time-Warner	_TW	Xtinct
Time-Warner	_AOLTW	Current
Timothy Benn publications	_Benn	Xtinct
Tindle Newspapers	_Tindle	Sketch
Torstar Corporation	_Torstar	Sketch
Trades Unions	_TU	Sketch
Transcontinental	_TransC	Sketch
The Tribune Company	_Tribune	Sketch
Trinity Mirror plc	_TMG	Research
TSL Education	_TSL	Draft
TV Nachrichten	_tvn	Sketch
UKTV	_UKTV	Sketch
United Business Media	_UM	Research
Vee Tee Ay (Media) Resources Ltd	_VTA	Sketch
Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste	_VWdiens	Sketch
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck	_Holtzb	Sketch
Viacom	_Viacom	Sketch
Virgin	_Virgin	Sketch
Vivendi Universal	_Vivendi	Xtinct
VNU	_VNU	Research
Walden Publishing	_Walden	Sketch
Wenner Media	_Wenner	Sketch
Yahoo!	_Yahoo	Sketch
ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen	_ZDF	Sketch
Ziff-Davis Media	_Ziff	Research