Recent news

NHS
- Doctor strikes junior doctors went on strike to increase income.
- privatisation, hospitals went private to make more money instead of using the NHS.
- Became waiting list for surgery can be up-to 10 years.

Charlie Gard
- Taken off life support at 11 months old.
- 1.3 million to pay for it but couldn't do it.
- pro life movement, after parents took it to court.
- caused controversy because great Ormand street was in news for something negative for once.

Windrush
- People arrived in UK to fix a boat, receiving the rights to remain in the UK, they paid tax's and raised family. However, they are being deported 2 generations later, conservative papers lost and shredded therefore they were being deported and asked to leave.

Grenfell tower
- Fire broke out and spread throughout tower, killed 72 people and injuring more than 70 others.
- Highlights that maybe it wasn't built properly and if it will happen the same
- There was no housing sorted out, living on streets.
- Was unplanned by government.

Royal Wedding
- Soft news
- Guardian just interested in royals
- Daily mail more towards Harry and Megan.

Londons Crime Level
- Knife crime has increased massively, 2018 = at least 50 victims from knife crime.
- many murders are increasing from teenage knife crime.

Newspaper vocabulary

Boomers - Older people traditionally watch BBC 6 o'clock news, and breaking ten
Millennials - Regularly check the news throughout the day on their phones.

Fix - access news constantly, prompted by a general need and state of distraction.

Track - Access news regularly to keep up to date with breaking news.

Fill - Access news to pass the time when moving from place to place.

Indulge - Make time to enjoy the news as a break from everything else in day.

Invest - read news regularly to get an in-depth perspective on stories.

Stories broke on social media before news

9/11
7/7
bitcoin
6ix9ine in prison
Whitney Houston dead
Arianda Grande terrorist attack

Cons
140 characters on twitter
Inaccuracy
Compromise journalistic integrity
Amateur reporters putting themselves at harm

The Guardian
2nd most popular newspaper and 4th most famous, described by fans, intelligent interesting well written and informative for politics.

Daily mail
4th most popular, in touch with ordinary people, informative, interesting and stands up for ordinary people.

The Sun
13th most popular, entertaining , great for sport and amusing.

The Guardian

The Guardian News Values

- Honesty
- Integrity
- Courage
- Fairness
- A sense of duty to reader and community

The guardian target audience is of a middle aged 18+ audience.

Stuart hall

Stereotype - Media uses a-lot to reduce a group of people to low characteristics and this is how they are portrayed. People from power is hegemonic power and these are in control of the media in the county, which are dominant groups in society controlling those less powerful.

Preferred reading - Audience reads a text in the way the media intended it.

opposition reading - When an audience reads a text in the opposite way that the media intended it.

Negative reading - When an audience is allowed to bring their experiences alongside.

News Homework

Why have print newspaper sales declined? 500 words

• Print sales have declined for a number of reasons…
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• Even though there’s been a decline in print news circulation, the rise in online technologies and accessibility has enabled newspapers to… for e.g.
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• Citizen journalism, participatory media, relationships with audiences have changed
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• As can be seen by the data…
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In recent years, the amount of print sales has massively decreased about newspapers, this is due to the increase in electronic technology. With the use of internet news and news applications, there is now no need to buy a paper copy. This therefore does potentially benefit the environment because there is a much less cost on paper therefore using less wood for paper and saving the environment/ ecosystem. As well as this, it means that there is no need to consume these materials for these things. Also, with the technology in phones, many people have made the conversion to smart phones, even the older generation. Therefore, with these phones comes the applications, which there is a news app, therefore all the news can be collected in one area and all for free of cost. This makes people who are technologically enhanced to have the outlook to use this instead of spending money on printed paper copies. If some people don’t have smartphone but have laptops or computers, they are able to access news on there for free. This is easily accessible through the newspaper’s website will show them all the exact same information that is also collected on the paper. Therefore, with the advancement in technology there is little need for printed copies of the news anymore.

Citizen journalism allows a more interactive way of reading and learning about the news on that day. Through the power of social media there is the option to be interactive and have your own opinion made clear through this. With social media such as twitter, retweets and mentions are available where public replies and shares can be made to spread one persons opinion on the news and to add your own opinon. This ius not accessible in the traditional printed paper and many opinionated people want to be able to access this. As well as this another collaborative way of sharing news is with participatory media. This allows general public to report and enlighten a reporter on events. This is usually voiced through social media, which means that they can use this to share the information they have collected or their personal opinion. This has therefore changed the relationships between the reporters and the readers, with the use of interaction the audience can voice and share their opinion just as much as the reporter can.

This has led to the decrease in paper copies because there is no need for them if it is interactive throughout social media just as it is on the virtual copies of the news. Making it so that there isn’t a necessity to use a physical copy and it is always accessible with the use of smartphone, or computers with internet access. Therefore, decreasing the use of paper prints of the news and increasing the virtualised way of reading and using the news.

News industry

- This is because of the increase in people using internet
- Advertising over online is worth so much now than it was many years ago
- Advertising was only through commercial use for example tv. Now online can be used to easily spread advertisement throughout the internet.
- Only way to advertise in year 2007 was with cost, this has changed now.

ABC
- Who is the ABC
The American broadcasting company, their opinion is extremely strong, this is because the whole of America will learn this news. Therefore, the whole of America will have the same view, meaning it is terrible advertisement for the company that it is about. Therefore it is so valued to the citizens of America and therefore feared by the big companies that could be reported upon.

Sunday Papers
- The circulation of Sunday papers is dominated by ' the paper on Sunday, this therefore shows how popular this paper is to the general public. This could therefore symbolise that this is a broadsheet paper, as a Sunday paper is mostly focused on the older generation of the public. The least viewed paper is a tabloid, therefore showing that the Sunday papers are more focused on older generation interested in hard news, however there are some that produce soft news which have less circulation.

Leading Broadsheets:
- The Daily mail (2974)
- The Daily telegraph (1101)
- The Times (1072)

Leading Tabloids:
- The Sun (3417)
- Daily mail (2974)
- The Sun on Sunday (2942)

Daily Mail and guardians place in the market:
-The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's second-biggest selling daily newspaper after The Sun.
- Although the guardian is a more serious newspaper and more focused on more serious and relevant news, it has a-lot less daily circulation than a tabloid like the daily mail. This shows how the guardian is beginning to die out because the general public are generally more interested in 'gossip' and irrelevant or ineffective news. 

The guardian
 -The first link states how the Guardian is vital and to be apart of it you inherit sacred facts. However, it is free of charge to become apart of it or even use and see it. It also states how honest, how much integrity, courage and fairness the Guardian provides with news for the general public completely free of charge.
- The second link states that the most important currency of the guardian is trust. The purpose of this code is to protect and foster the bond of trust between the paper and the readers of it. To protect the integrity of the paper and the content in it.

I believe that the use of mobile apps has been vital to the growth of online news, this is because with an app it is easy to find and easy to access, all your news can be stored in one place and not all separated throughout the internet. The problem with websites is for some people it can take them an extremely long time to try and find the right website up to date, to the point some people cant be bothered with it. However with an app there is no searching apart from attaching the news papers you want to view, making it easy to ready the news that you want to read and see so that more people are inclined to read news.

I believe that a lack of trust is generated in newspapers nowadays because of the information inside of it. This is because someone may share news throughout social media, making the newspaper pointless or only needed to be read by one. This is against some community for example the guardian as the news is confidential to readers only and should not be shared worldwide through social media for anyone that wants to read it, to read it.

The IPSO is the regulator for newspaper, these are regulating against stuff that should not be exposed to the public, this is because it van be offensive or not suitable. This is necessary to stop offences to be broken, and if offences are made then they will be held accountable for their actions.

The revenue chart shows that the industry is more focused on online news, the issue that this generates is that to access news online it is always free, unless donations are making. This is therefore making it difficult for some companies to survive as purchased print numbers have decreased which makes it a lot more difficult for them to make money from it or make a profit meaning it is potentially difficult for them to survive.

With people like buzz feed etc. this generates the issue that this almost replaces typical tabloids such as the sun. This information is all presented to the audience in a fun and interactive way with means that traditional tabloids May find it hard to be used anymore as many people would rather see tabloid news presented over social media.

Daily Mail

Daily Mail

- Came out in 1896, this often refers to tradition.
- Right wing, pro breit.
- Owned by Daily Mail and  General Trust.
- 1.25 million print circulation. which is second highest circulation behind the sun.
- Paul Dacre editor for a very long period of time, he would out his opinion on everything regardless what anyone else said. Made him very powerful in the whole paper/system. Autumn 2018 he resigned and Geordie Greig took over, changed and softened a little bit on side of Brexit.
- 50 / 50 gender split.
- Average readership is age 58.
- Younger online audience
- Brexit supporters
- British institutors like the royal family.

newspaper homework task

News analysis

Daily mail - serif font used by daily mail

sun - non serif


Types of paper

-Tabloid - sun, daily mirror, daily mail
-Broadsheet - daily telegraph, daily express
-Mid market tabloids (daily express/ daily mail)
-Local news

newspaper analysis

This is presented on the daily mail front cover, showing a graphic story with videos playing of how graphic and serious the event was.

On the daily mail, this has focused on the political events of the day, this hereby shows the events of Brexit and completely different line of news to that if the daily mail.






This therefore show a comparison of the two different newspapers, this is because on the same day, the guardian are focusing on political views yet the daily mail are focusing heavily on political views which is therefore a complete contrast.

Assessment

ASSESSMENT 1A - GBHS MEDIA STUDIES A LEVEL Marksheet

Name: Thomas Snow          Date:                                                     Mark: 58

AO1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media and contexts of media and their influence

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media to:

Analyse media products/Evaluate academic theories/ Make judgements and draw conclusions

Level 3 57+ A/B	·      A comprehensive response to the set question ·      Comprehensive and accurate knowledge and understanding ·      Convincing, perceptive and accurate analysis ·      Convincing, perceptive and accurate evaluation ·      Highly developed and accomplished judgements and conclusions The response demonstrates a highly developed and detailed line of reasoning which is coherent and logically structured. The information presented is entirely relevant and substantiated.
Level 2 40-56 C/D	·      An adequate response to the set question ·      Adequate and generally accurate knowledge and understanding ·      Adequate and generally successful analysis ·      Adequate and generally successful evaluation ·      Adequate and generally well-reasoned judgements and conclusions The response demonstrates a line of reasoning with some structure. The information presented is in the most part relevant and supported by some evidence.
Level 1 Up to 40 D/U	·      A minimal response to the set question ·      Minimal application of knowledge and understanding ·      Analysis is minimal and/or largely descriptive and may not be relevant ·      Evaluation is minimal or brief, and is likely to be largely descriptive ·      Judgements and conclusions, if present, are minimal with limited support ·        Information presented is basic and may be ambiguous or unstructured. The information is supported by limited evidence.

Student DIRT Task

Identify a strength or strengths in your assessment: The strengths in my assessment was my in detailed information, I went more into the information that I had instead of making a vague point. This meant that my work increased in marks because I got more marks from analysis and not just knowledge. Therefore, this is what I done well. What are the areas you need to improve? I need to improve on making my points clear, therefore highlighting and repeating what I am trying to say, this will therefore mean that my point is highlighted and made clear for the reader. This will add more marks as the examiner will be able to actually see and realise what I am talking about. What do you need to focus on for your next assessment? On my next assessment I need to focus in on the evaluation and overall answering the question instead of just presenting knowledge on it. This will therefore improve my answer and generate more marks.