MailOnline

Not to be confused with Email.

MailOnline
Type of site
Available inEnglish
OwnerDaily Mail and General Trust
URLdailymail.co.uk
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched2003
Current statusActive

MailOnline (also known as dailymail.co.uk and dailymail.com outside the UK) is the website of the Daily Mail, a tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper The Mail on Sunday. MailOnline is a division of dmg media, which is owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc.

Launched in 2003 by the Associated Newspapers’ digital division led by ANM managing director Andy Hart,[1] MailOnline was made into a separately managed site in 2006 under the editorship of Martin Clarke and general management of James Bromley.[2][3] It is now the most visited English-language newspaper website in the world,[4] with over 11.34m visitors daily in August 2014.[5][needs update]

Previously, there was an attempt to call into question the integrity of the website's journalism after NewsGuard's feature which is designed to fight what it describes as fake news, Microsoft Edge warned users against trusting content at the site, asserting that "this website generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability" and "has been forced to pay damages in numerous high-profile cases".[6] This warning has since been removed, and NewsGuard stated that the website "generally maintains basic standards of accuracy and accountability", though it "still failed to gather and present information responsibly".[7]

  1. ^ Gibson, Owen (4 December 2003). "Daily Mail finally embraces the internet". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  2. ^ "How 'Journalism Crack' Conquered the Internet". The Observer. 19 March 2014. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  3. ^ Andrews, Robert (21 October 2008). "DMGT, News Int Merge Sales Teams, Bromley To Lead Mail Online". gigaom.com. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  4. ^ Mance, Henry (24 September 2014). "MailOnline and the next page for the 'sidebar of shame'". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  5. ^ Fothergill, Joel (19 September 2014). "Newspaper ABCs: Digital figures for August 2014". Media Week. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  6. ^ Waterson, Jim (23 January 2019). "Don't trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  7. ^ Fox, Chris (1 February 2019). "Mail Online web browser warning reversed". BBC News. Archived from the original on 9 October 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.