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Was the Wapping Revolution a Good Thing or a Bad Thing for British Journalism?
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David D H Andrews Wapping Revolution 1 09/11/04 Was the Wapping Revolution a Good Thing or a Bad Thing for British Journalism? In 1986, when Rupert Murdoch, the owner of News International, moved production of his major titles (The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The News of the World) from Fleet Street to Wapping, he set about an irreversible chain reaction in the structure of journalism in the UK. Although I believe that some kind of major political and technological change in the press was inevitable and arguably overdue by 1986, this essay will argue that the Wapping Revolution itself was bad for British journalism. Rupert Murdoch began monopolizing the UK news market when he bought The News of the World in 1968, followed soon after by The Sun, now the UK's highest circulating tabloid with over 3.5m copies. By 1981 he also owned The Times and The Sunday Times, giving him a substantial...
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