Murdoch, Co-Chairman, News Corp, Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Fox Corporation, Executive Chairman, NOVA Entertainment Group. Rupert Murdoch Executive Chairman, News Corp, son Lachlan K. Rupert Murdoch has a controlling interest in News Corp. SimilarWeb reports over 5B monthly visits for April 2021. BBC reports, via Wikipedia, that the site had on average in 2020, 1.7 billion unique visitors every month. In July 2020, there were 5B visitors to Wikipedia. Wikipedia spends $55M/year on salaries and programs with a total of $112M in expenses in 2020 while all content is user-generated (free). Other major donors include, Amazon, Musk Foundation, George Soros, Craig Newmark, Facebook and the late Jim Pacha. Google was the biggest funder in 2020 along with Wojcicki Foundation (YouTube) Foundation while the largest donor to its endowment is Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. We will leave the rest of this Index time-stamped unless a funder wants to fund us to keep this index dynamic. We have updated ownership details for CNN, given its big merger news on Monday, May 17, 2021, as well as added details sent to us by the owners of Daily Caller and Townhall Media. Thus, the importance of radical ownership transparency.
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WARNING: There are some outlets on here that many journalists would deem political propaganda. We have, no doubt, missed a few publishers of note and, with dailies, we list the owners of the seven largest newspaper parent companies or standalone dailies with significant paid digital subscribers. Our ranking of traffic is by no means a perfect science. In the case of cable TV, we combined daily prime-time audiences with monthly views. To give the index structure, we have chosen to use third-party tracking of monthly views, unless reported at the source.
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We have time-stamped this index – May 11, 2021. Mainstream Media by listing publishers (owners, majority voting shareholders, and donors of titles) considered major US daily news sources. Our goal is to provide radical transparency and a better grasp of the U.S.