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WWW:

• Good starter
• Current information
• Good on politicians 

EBI:

• Some inaccurate info on Myspace 
• Need to be longer, more detailed 
• Other subsidiaries

The Guardian

Founded by John Edward Taylor in 1821 and he was based in Manchester. It was influenced by Peterloo Massacre and the anti corn laws campaign. Many people were injured and killed in the massacre. At first, the newspaper was only published on Saturdays and then it became a weekly publishing newspaper. The Guardian achieved national and international recognition under the editorship of CP Scott. He passed it onto his sons Edward and John. The Guardian was the first coloured newspaper. The Guardian is an international newspaper and can be accessed via online, app and traditionally reading the newspaper.

BBC

The BBC is funded by the public of the UK. It is a public service broadcaster which means the public pays for the BBC shows to be on their television. The BBC was founded by John Reith in 1922 and is still running in all homes of the United Kingdom. Hence, the World's oldest national broadcasting organisation. BBC has expanded from it's launch in 1922. It used to be a private company in 1923-1926. Most recently, it has added their apps 'BBC iplayer,BBC news, BBC sport' for news and entertainment. 50% of BBC's expenditure is on TV

Disney

It was founded by Walt Disney in 1923 in America. It is the worlds second largest conglomerate in terms of revenue. It was the founder Mickey Mouse and takes ideas from children influences. Their animations are easier to create now compared to the past because there is more/advanced technology now for produces to work with. Also, Disney have allowed their fans to get up close with their character narratives because of Disney land, Disney store and Disney channels. 

Twitter

It was founded on March 21 2006 by Jack Dorsey (American). It has around $1.4 billion revenue and has around 302 million active users. It is a social media site that allows people from around the world to interact with each other for free. This is where facts are stated first before anywhere else (most of the time) and opinions are formed. However, there is a limit to the amount of words a user can use in a tweet. 

ITV

It was launched on 1955 and )at the time) only had one channel. Similarly to BBC, it expanded it's brand onto the internet (iplayer, news). Unlike BBC, it is a commercial broadcaster which means that there are advertisements on ITV channels so the public doesn't need to fund ITV. It has also added more channels to it's arsenal so viewer numbers should increase which could potentially increase revenue (ITV 1, ITV 2, ITV 3).   

Sony

It was founded on May 7^th 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Aiko Morita. It is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation. The name comes from a mix of two words. One was Latin ‘sonus’ which is the root of sonic and sound. The other is ‘sonny’ a familiar term used in 1950’s America to call a boy. It is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan but has situated its Sony buildings across the globe: Surrey (European headquarters), New York City, Philadelphia, Berlin etc. It predominantly focuses on Sony: music, pictures, computer entertainment and mobile. It is a conglomerate to Naughty Dog, CBS record groups, Columbia pictures, Sony Ericsson. Sony Entertainment focuses on creating systems that users can interact with to enjoy themselves. A product produced by Sony that does this is PlayStation and has evolved since its release in 1994. It now is superior console that competes with the Xbox (Microsoft own).

Vivendi

Vivendi was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in Paris, France. It is a French multinational company which has activities like music, television, film, tickets and video hosting service. It owns Canal Group (news, sport), as well as music world leader Universal Music Group. In November 2013, Vivendi became the exclusive owner of the France’s biggest pay TV Company. On the music side, Vivendi produces artists such as Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj etc.

Viacom

Viacom is headquartered in New York City, America and the key people of this company are Summer Redstone (Executive chairman) and Philippe Dauman. It is an American global mass media company with interests primarily in cinema and cable television. It is the World’s the sixth largest broadcasting and cable company in terms of revenue. The current Viacom was created on December 31 3005 as a spinoff from CBS Corporation, which changed its name from Viacom to CBS at the same time.