News International Wapping Plant former offices of News Of The World. Photo:Jeff Gilbert
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Jeff Gilbert / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
C5496HFile size:
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4325 x 2883 px | 36.6 x 24.4 cm | 14.4 x 9.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
6 July 2011Location:
News International, Pennington Street, Wapping, London, United KingdomMore information:
News International Ltd is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc. News International Ltd is currently owned by News Corporation. One of its assets has recently become embroiled in the News of the World phone hacking affair and was closed down as a result in July 2011, and the last paper published will be on the 10th July 2011 (Sunday) The company's major titles are published by three subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers Ltd, News Group Newspapers[1] and NI Free Newspapers Limited. These newspapers were until 2010 written at a large site in Wapping in east London, near Tower Hill, which earned the nickname "Fortress Wapping" after a fierce dispute with the union to which the workforce had previously belonged. The printing of the papers is now undertaken at Broxbourne, Liverpool and Lanarkshire (the largest and fastest print press in the world). Between 1987 and 1995, News International owned, through its subsidiary News (UK) Ltd, Today, the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour. All of News International's newspapers (with the exception of The London Paper, launched in 2006) were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago. In October 2005 News International sold TSL Education, publishers of Times Educational Supplement and other education titles, for £235m ($415m). The Times Literary Supplement, previously part of TSL Education, has been retained by News International as part of this deal. Darwin Ltd, who had taken over the company, continued to produce the same product. Tower Hamlets has granted permission for the re-modelling of the main building at the News International Wapping compound. The HQ will give a united home to News International, Harper Collins, MySpace, Dow Jones, Fox and related businesses for the first time and will help to regenerate the Wapping site.