JRN185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: A Golden Age, The Sunday Guardian, David And Frederick Barclay
29 Apr 2020
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1986 "wapping revolution" marked not just the end of the print unions" influence. Also the solidification of newspaper publishing"s corporate era. Many of the long existing newspaper dynasties survived, most notably the ownership of the daily mail publishing company rothermere / harmsworth. Other shifts in ownership, from the telegraph and express companies, heralded a new period in which owners were not only well-known individuals but public entities with shareholders and stock market values to concern them. To a large degree, businesses like any other. Wapping had changed the cost structure of newspaper production and had made the opportunity to make large profits a very real one in principle at least and also in reality. Certainly was the reason why a range of new titles came onto the market in the few years after wapping. The new labor relations climate instituted by thatcher"s government gave employers supremacy in their relationship with organized labour.
