Audience study - analysing newspaper websites

When analysing newspaper websites, we need to take a slightly different approach to when we analyse print newspapers. However, much to the language remains the same.

1) Analyse the homepage to the website of one of the following newspapers:

The Mirror

The Guardian

The Daily Telegraph 

The Sun



2) Write the following question in your book: 

With reference to your own detailed examples, explore how media texts target different audiences

Make reference to explicit examples of the following

Broadsheet or tabloid?
Left or right wing ideology?
Layout and design
Lexis/language
Mode of address
Target audience
Selection of articles
Reception theory
Cultivation theory

Remember: you are forming a case study, so including as many details as possible will help out massively later on!