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Newspaper providers(Print)                        

The Sun

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 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

The Times:

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register and became The Times on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by the News Corp group headed by Rupert Murdoch. 

TV Channels (Broadcast)

Sky:

Sky UK Limited (formerly British Sky Broadcasting or BSkyB) is a British telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom. Sky provides television and broadband internet services and fixed line telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest pay-TV broadcaster with 11 million customers as of 2015. It was the UK's most popular digital TV service until it was overtaken by Freeview in April 2007. Its corporate headquarters are based in Isleworth.

Sky gives audiences accessibility to sports and news in high quality and has recently released a 'on the go' app to give their viewers the ability to watch news on their smartphones on their way to work,school etc. 

BBC:

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage.
The BBC is the largest viewing freeview news provider in the UK making it a very successful broadcast channel. The BBC has developed massively over the years giving views top information from a trustworthy source that the public have learnt to trust over the years. 

Online news (E - Media)

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for news gathering and production. The website is the most frequently accessed news website in the United Kingdom, and forms a major part of BBC Online (BBC.co.uk), which records around 40 million unique users a week (around 60 to 70% of visitors are from the UK).
BBC news online has gained many users over the years making the BBC's overall success rise quickly. BBC have also created an app for users to use on their smartphone with free access of this app this has given them the upper hand and has allowed their audience to view their trustworthy news any time of the day free of charge.