We're owned by the Scott Trust which keeps us free from undue influence by shareholders and actively encourages long-term thinking about the future of journalism.
In the interest of full disclosure, you should also point out that the Graun has a near monopoly on public sector job ads, so is effectively State-subsidized.
(Back in the late 90s I worked on your old StoryServer implementation... What a bunch of arse that was).
"the Graun has a near monopoly on public sector job ads, so is effectively State-subsidized."
Cobblers. (And a lazy Conservative Party talking point to boot.)
The TES and Times Higher have more education jobs, and local papers get a far higher local government spend in aggregate. And in the Guardian that's only Tuesdays and Wednesdays (having bought them before I can tell you that the Saturday job supplement is merely a repeat and I never paid more for it).
In fact the vast majority of advertised public sector jobs are not advertised in the Guardian. Under what bizarre definition of 'monopoly' would this fall?
I don't know anything about the specifics of public advertising in the British newspaper market, but I will say that a substantial ad buy two days a week could be a significant subsidy to the paper as a whole. And how much you paid for the Saturday supplement is irrelevant: what matters is what the advertisers paid for that reprint.
In the interest of full disclosure, you should also point out that the Graun has a near monopoly on public sector job ads, so is effectively State-subsidized.
(Back in the late 90s I worked on your old StoryServer implementation... What a bunch of arse that was).