Organization
JPI mostly avoids politicized initiatives, scoring well on cancellations, discriminatory philanthropy, advocacy bias, and funding, which keeps its overall profile relatively favorable. However, its medium-risk rating in employment protection and lack of data on political actions and corporate weaponization prevent it from achieving a fully lower-risk designation.
Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the i, The Scotsman, the Yorkshire Post, the Falkirk Herald, and Belfast's The News Letter. The company was operating around 200 newspapers and associated websites around the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man when it went into administration and was the purchased by JPIMedia in 2018. The Falkirk Herald was the company's first acquisition in 1846. Johnston Press's assets were transferred to JPIMedia in 2018, who continued to publish its titles.
