Revision: newspaper industry: finding explicit examples

Remember, you can find the 'new case studies' for 2022 ONLY by clicking right here

• Who publishes the Mirror and who publishes The Times?
• What else do these companies publish?
• What controversies have these companies been involved in?

Using the 'new case studies'...

• Find three examples of explicit political bias (eg how is The Mirror left wing and how is The Times right wing?)
• Find three explicit examples of possible regulatory breaches
• In what ways are newspapers distributed, and what advantages do these different forms of distribution hold?
• Find three explicit examples of how the regulation of online newspapers is particularly difficult and problematic
• Research the current financial situations of the parent companies of both of these newspapers. How has this potentially shaped the output of these newspapers?
• Explore alternatives to mainstream news sources. Find at least one explicit example

Historical representations of gay people in The Mirror on Sunday, 1963

Please note that these representations are harmful, offensive and deeply problematic. They are presented here in order to draw attention to changing societal values. This post should therefore not be considered an endorsement of these views. 

Riptide: complete analysis and representational issues

Jean Baudrillard and hyperreality

Jean Baudrillard argued that there is no such thing as reality. How does this work? Basically, there could never be such thing as reality, as reality itself is subjective. We each have our own subjective worlds that are constructed through our own experiences and ideologies. And media products are to blame for this. By constantly consuming and mediating a range of media on a minute by minute basis, our perception of reality has been completely decimated. 

Baudrillard was fascinated with media saturation, and the effects that this has on our collective perception of reality. Given that there is no such thing as reality (reality cannot exist, as our perceptions of reality are so radically different from one another), we instead look to representations, which are more real than real. Baudrillard refers to this concept and process as hyperreality, where the representation is more important and more real than the thing it is representing. 

And, because there is no way to implement an objective reality, Baudrillard posits we are all living in a simulation, a fantasy world constructed by representations. Even more freakily, since there is no reality under this collection of symbols (Baudrillard refers to this as a 'procession of images'), this simulation might as well be reality for us. We simply couldn't tell it apart anyway!

These ideas can broadly be slotted in to the concept of postmodernism. Baudrillard himself hated this term, but for us at least, it provides a (sort of) straightforward way of understanding these concepts. Postmodern media is media that breaks rules. It challenges conventions, and it does so deliberately, for the simple reason that nothing matters anyway. If life is simply a simulation, than surely there's no point in considering the deeper meaning to things?

Postmodern media can often be confusing, extremely stylish, or even deeply hateful and nihilistic. It is media that reflects a broken and fractured world, where nothing can be understood, and nothing is as it seems.

If all this seems a bit confusing, GOOD. Postmodernism as a concept is deliberately anti-theory. It denies the existence of everything, including objective reality. And, from an exam perspective, it gives you an excellent excuse to write in an analysis that a media product is deliberately confusing to challenge and confuse the target audience!

But basically, all we really need to know is that modern life is confusing and alienating, and we need media that reflects this confusion and alienation. Riptide is arguably an example of this!

In what ways does the video to Riptide challenge typical conventions?

• The dark nature of this video is highly contrapuntal when compared to the bright, chirpy song
• Contrapuntal sound is sound which doesn't 'fit' the visuals
• A completely confusing and distracting narrative, that features a range on non-connected stories
• Constant breaking of the fourth wall. Characters often look in to the screen
• Use of unpleasant, creepy and violent imagery creates an uneasy atmosphere for the audience 
• Lack of explication of narrative. Why is the singer being 'abused'?
• A range of different and seemingly unrelated narratives. Multi strand narrative
• Every lyric has a literal direct visual accompaniment
• The subtitles do not match up exactly with the lyrics being sung
• Video is highly polysemic and has no real conclusion 
• Extreme low key lighting
• Lack of music video conventions, including choreographed dancing, and a complete lack of the performer himself
• Terrible quality of lip syncing
• Unclear setting and time period or even genre
• This video is deliberately confusing in order to challenge its target audience. Because it is so confusing, it will encourage further analysis
• A long shot of a stereotypical cowboy standing in the middle of the desert makes intertextual reference to the Western genre for no particular reason. This creates an exciting yet confusing mode of address for the target audience
• Video jumps from location to location, creating a deliberately disorientating mode of address
• Binary opposition between day and night frequently used to construct symbolic reference to good and evil, light and dark 
• Use of the term and the visual representation of 'left hand' has clear symbolic connotations. Left can by symbolic of evil and the devil, and the term 'left' here could be symbolic of abuse, being a binary opposite of 'right hand man' (a protector)
• Frequent use of zoom shots deliberately dates the video, and infers the action is taking place in 'the 1970s'
• Symbolism of red lipstick. Red lipstick can be symbolic of love, sex and passion, yet the colour red can also be symbolic of blood, abuse, anger and torture. This video clearly is playing with the the nature of polysemy. This is further anchored through the MES of smudged red lipstick, and smudged, smeared eyeliner
• Elements of the horror genre are used throughout the video, including through shocking clos ups of a woman being dragged away, the CU of a female hand being stabbed, the swinging chandelier, the first shock cut to the dentist/torture CU, 
• Continuous narrative, with shots having cause and effect, yet not necessarily in order
• Use of tarot cards as a symbolic code, with certain cards having certain signification, eg: the hangman: a symbol of surrender
• Negotiated readings: audiences are expected to come to their own conclusions, and may make significant research in to deeper meanings of this video
• Extreme low key lighting in the graveyard scene has connotations of mystery and suspicion 
• HA or BEV shots of 'riptide' (the choppy waves) has symbolic connotations of of something that is about to go dramatically wrong. Potentially triggering, extremely upsetting image
• Other 'nightmarish' imagery include the CU 'dentist'/torture shot
• Imagery becomes more explicit and violent as the video continues
• Editing is confusing and discontinuous
• Surreal imagery, which follows the logic of dreams
• MES of suitcase is anchored through the reference to Australia and the Romanian passport, which combined, creates a strong theme of travelling and going on a journey
• MS of man at beach in a floral shit is further anchored by the ocean in the background, which constructs a series of symbolic codes, making reference to 1970s crime films. This reference to 70s iconography is extremely important in indie-pop fashion 
• 'Left hand' has associations with abnormality and even Satanism and witchcraft 
• Close up master shot of woman being forced to sing features smudged mascara, which is highly symbolic of misery, being upset and crying. This furthered anchored by the high key lighting, used in an unconventional low angled manner, which creates a juxtaposition between happiness and misery, and the excessive darkness also functions as an hermenuetic code, literally shrouding the performer in mystery
• Master shot - a shot, usually a performance shot that the video keeps returning to

What does it mean?

If we are to consider Baudrillard's theory, then it is perfectly acceptable to argue that riptide doesn't mean anything, is deliberately confusing and alienating, and only exists to provoke a response... any response will do.

But, for fun, let's try and point to a deeper meaning...

Possible meanings

Roland Barthes argued in his 'death of the author' theory than a media product ceases to be the property of the producer the second it is made. All that matters is the interpretation of the audience

• Theory one - Riptide challenges the nature of reality itself 
• Theory two - Riptide is a video equivalent of a 'shitpost', which is designed to annoy and confuse the audience. The lyrics of the song mean absolutely nothing, and so does the video!
• Theory three - The video is escaping a cult or a religious fanatics. It includes the MES of religious/spiritual imagery, inc 'the illuminati, tarot card, a hand being stabbed through the palm, themes of hypnosis and brainwashing. There is also lots of imagery of escaping, fleeing, running away, often to a different country
• Theory four - the video is about kidnap and abuse. With each shot of the 'performer' singing, she looks more abused, as if she has been tortured. Not for any particular reason
• Theory five - There are many creepy themes of watching, photographic, filming women. We as an audience are often placed in a voyeuristic mode of address.
• Theory six - the video is focussed on crime and committing crimes. Crimes committed include kidnapping, (anchored through the extreme cu of hands being dragged), voyeurism (the creepy, dressing shot) and the POV stalking/chasing shot which positions the audience as a murderer
• Theory seven - The video itself is a form of torture for the audience. There are many themes of Satan and sadism and the occult throughout the video, including the MES of the Ouija board, the continued defence to the 'left hand', and the reference to tarot cards as well. The video additionally makes reference to many common fears, including the ocean, the dentist, darkness, cutting, torture, stalking, graveyards, which are all edited in to the video in a confusing and unpleasant way. Potentially, this video could attract larger audiences through becoming notorious 
• Theory eight - The video is about dream... and nightmares. The reason why it males no sense is that it follows dream logic. It is closer to surrealist cinema than something logical, to allow audiences to relate to these difficult and creepy themes 

Discussion: is Riptide drawing attention to issues surrounding women, or reinforcing misogynist values?

Voyeurism  - taking pleasure at watching someone when they do not know they are being watched

Throughout Riptide, we, the audience are positioned in a voyeuristic mode of address, which is deeply disturbing to the audience

Misogyny - the hatred of women 

Is Riptide misogynistic? Pain is inflicted on women throughout this video, and exclusively on women . The women being tortured are exclusively hegemonically attractive, which also reinforces certain fetishistic qualities, and might even make reference to 'incel' culture (in a roundabout way). The conflation between sex and violence is particularly disturbing

Conclusions

Arguably, Riptide doesn't mean anything. This is completely atypical and surreal 

Riptide is highly polysemic, and can mean completely different things to different audiences

However, if Riptide is about anything, then it could be about the representation of women, and it could deal with themes of abuse and misogyny. The video features shots of women being attacked, stalked, chased, tied up, abused, tortured

We could argue that Riptide is feminist, and is criticising and drawing attention to the negative representation of women in media

Regulation issues: Meghan Markle vs The Daily Mail

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Check out this link. How important is Meghan Markle to The Daily Mail?

2

Read this article

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Revision: profit, power and ownership of the newspaper industry

Sample question

In Question 3(d), you will be rewarded for drawing together knowledge and understanding from across your full course of study, including different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts.

(d) Explain how ownership shapes media products. Refer to The Daily Mirror to support your points. [12]

News values - the values or ideology that are demonstrated in news media. The news is constructed through a process of selection and omission

Newsworthiness - refers to how 'worthy' something is of being in the news

'If it bleeds, it leads'

Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe 'vs' Anousheh Assoori - why did the UK media favour the coverage of one of these people over the other?

• Women are hegemonically and ideologically represented as the primary caregivers to children. Thus Nazanin's story is seen as being more tragic and relatable. This is more easily narrativized 
• Anousheh's story is more complicated. He tried to kill himself through starvation in prison, and his family apparently supported this. Perhaps this 'story' is too controversial? Additionally, he was a protestor, which may make things more ideologically complicated
• She is more apparently middle class than him, which may make her more relatable to middle class audiences
• She is significantly more light skinned. Historically, white lives, especially white British lives hold more value in the UK news. This is a clear indication of Gilroy's theory of racial hierarchies
• Nazanin is a woman, and a mother of a young girl. This is a compelling and exciting narrative
• Her child is significantly younger, which again presents a more compelling and relatable narrative to the target audience
• Her family is white. She is a British national with a double barrelled surname, which could lead to her being more relatable to the target audience
• His name is potentially more 'foreign' to certain British audiences, representing him more as an 'other'
• Nazanin is significantly more hegemonically attractive than Anousheh, and may in particular appeal to middle age men
• All of these decisions have been made for the reasons of securing profit

Comparing the news values of the front pages of the editions of The Daily Mirror and The Times from Tuesday 22nd March 2022

Curran & Seaton - all media products and their owners are motivated by power and profit. 'Power without responsibility". The UK media is constructed in such a way that it wields considerable ideological power, and is in the business of deliberately manipulating audiences. It is advantageous for newspapers to support popular political parties because it gives them financial security

David Hesmondhalgh - Industries minimise risk and maximise profit. the structure of the media industries/the cultural industries. Processes include conglomeration, where a company buys out another company, and vertical/horizontal/multimedia integration

• The Daily Mirror is a tabloid with broadly left leaning ideology. Tabloid newspapers typically utilise an informal mode of address and use an informal lexis to appeal to a working class target audience. The Mirror 95p
• The Times however is a broadsheet. Ideologically it is right leaning, but far less right wing than newspapers like The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Sunday sport. It would argue it is more of a centrist paper. Broadsheets typically target middle class audiences using sophisticated mode of address and language. The Times is £2:20

The Mirror

• The mirror demonstrates a far more colourful and lively mode of address. It features significantly more pictures, and significantly less words
• There is a large splash story featuring Kate Middleton. She is referred to as 'Kate' which is highly informal, and constructs an informal mode of address. This splash features little information, yet does feature two large, very similar images of the royals walking around. This is a classic example of soft news.
• Bias by selection - where something is included in a newspaper, which demonstrates the ideology
• By including a story on 'Kate', the newspaper is demonstrating it has a pro royal bias. The Mirror is a left leaning newspaper, which means arguably it may be 'against' the royal family. It includes stories and information about the royals, because the royals are popular with its readership
• Another splash story featuring 'Nazanin' (again, familiar, informal address) chooses a mid shot of a smiling image of the woman, which promotes a positive, straightforward narrative. Yet the pull quote criticises the UK government. Controversy is often popular as a subject choice, and it is standard for a left leaning newspaper to criticise the conservative party. The blue background and the font is in conservative blue which might emphasise the responsibility of the conservative government
• However, broadly, this edition of The Mirror has chosen to avoid significant reference to political issues  
• Headline story: features Michael Gove in an apparently life and death situation . The headline features quote marks so the newspaper can avoid accusations of libel
• This story lacks many concrete facts, yet is violent and lurid and exciting, and is typical of the front page of a tabloid
• All in all, the front page of the mirror is typical of a tabloid newspaper, and definitely reflects how ideology has been shaped by the ownership of this newspaper

The Times

• Significantly smaller font than tabloid newspapers, with significantly more information, clearly targeting a middle class, educated audience
• Uses far fewer colours
• Masthead uses a serif font type. Serif font has connotations of classiness and formality
• Refers to Nazanin by her full name, which reveals it s more formal mode of address. The caption features the same information as The Mirror, but substantially smaller. The Times have selected an image of Nazanin with her white husband, which reinforces her status as a stereotypical British national ,and may make her more relatable to the conservative target audience
• The headline story features the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The headline features formal language, which suggests it is targeting a middle class, sophisticated audience. This story is international, which may explain why it was bumped from the front page of the Mirror that day. By focussing on an international story, the editors are assuming the target audience audience of The Times have more of an interest in international events Additionally, the story in the Times lacks an image, which again speaks to the sophistication of the readers. It uses some technical language and makes many references to people's names, which assumes some level of knowledge on behalf of the readership. Story is complicated, but ends with a lead in to considerable more information
• The assumes much knowledge of its readers, including the term 'No 10', an abbreviation of 'number ten downing street' , which in turn is an example of metonymy, where one word stand in for the whole thing. In this case, 'no 10' represents the UK government, which is a sophisticated abbreviation.
• Being a right of centre newspaper, The Times may be ideologically opposed to taxes. Being higher earners, the readership would be likely to pay more tax already, and right wing ideologies tend to focus on the individual rather than the collective
• The story on road tax and toll roads would appeal more to middle class, middle aged audiences. It uses a range of technical language to present an issue that arguably only affects more well-off people

Newspaper industry ultrapost

This post is a mashup of all the work completed and submitted by second year media studies about the newspaper industry. There's some repetition here, but repetition is basically another name for revision. Think about it. Also, this gives you a choice for which resource you would like to use.

if your resource does not feature here, you probably didn't submit it as a jpg or PNG. So get on that. 

The anatomy of the newspaper

Industry key terms

Newspaper industry terms in quiz form!

Tabloids vs Broadsheets

Left and right wing politics explained 

The industry theorists

Regulation and controversies

Anoosheh Ashoori and the problem with news values

Anoosheh Ashoori

She said: “It has been a very big struggle trying to get my dad’s name out there; we were slightly more successful in the last year of our campaign because of the efforts of Amnesty and other organisations that finally joined us.

“But because of his name, age, his looks, us being grownup children, and us not being very relatable so we couldn’t really engage on a major scale with the media and public no matter how hard we tried.”

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and family

Considering Baudrillard

One of the most frequently misunderstood theorists we will explore in media studies is the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard. In fact, he is so widely misunderstood that even the exam board has falsely ascribed a theoretical perspective to him: Jean Baudrillard certainly wasn't a postmodernist, and later distanced himself from this increasingly meaningless term.

Baudrillard is perhaps best known for his notion of hyperreality, literally beyond reality, which is generally and correctly defined as 'where the representation is more real than that which it claims to represent'. We can also think of the hyperreal as being better than reality. But this is where things get a bit complex.

We live in a world saturated with media, which we increasingly use to mediate our own lives and existence. However, far from something like televised news or Instagram feeds providing a 'replacement' for reality, Baudrillard Is arguing something VERY different.

For Baudrillard, there is no reality. There has never been any reality. It is a meaningless term. The hyppereal is not, in fact replacing anything, though without a point of reference it is true that it is 'more real' than the thing it is representing. Baudrillard refers to this phenomenon as simulacra, a representation of something that never existed in the first place. And taking this to its logical end point, or perception of the world, through a saturated collection of mediated images and ideologies is a simulation.

Baudrillard uses an excellent analogy of a perfectly mentally healthy person pretending to have a mental illness. If this person lives their life pretending to be mad, for example talking to people who are not there, wearing their underwear on their head and running around like a plane from morning to night, they are, in Baudrillard's opinion, mad. There is no meaningful distinction. After all, what is being mad and what is being 'normal'? These too are societal constructs, simulacra based upon hegemonic cultural values which conveniently shift over time. In some cultures, especially ancient ones, speaking to people who don't exist could be extremely valuable, or could be extremely dangerous. And for Baudrillard, since all our societal systems have no root in any objective reality, the more we immerse ourselves in the simulation and the 'procession of images', paradoxically the more 'real' the world becomes. So basically, reality can only be formed through something being utterly irreal...

This is scary stuff! No wonder so many people end up dumbing down Baudrillard! Frankly the best explanation of the simulation hypothesis I have seen is this meme from Weird Twitter shitposter DA SH@RE Z0NE, which nicely sums up the realisation that nothing is real, and it never has been!

Introduction to music videos

What is a music video?

A combination of video and music? But this refers to everything!

A video that tells a story that goes with the music? Well, so is a film...

A music video is an advert for a song. It is a promotional item

Yet, music music follow their own specific conventions. Even though they are arguably just a form of advertising, they are also objectively an art form in their own right

How can we demarcate music videos from cinema?

Demarcation: the process of splitting things in to sperate, distinct categories. Also known as delineation

Both films and music videos combine sound and vision to create meaning for the audience. But they are absolutely, totally different. But how?

• In general, films may have significantly higher budgets 
• Films tend to have a significantly longer run time
• Audiences typically expect to pay to watch a film
• Exhibition context: films are traditionally shown in cinemas, while music videos are now typically streamed online
• Music takes a different function in films. 
• The use of sound in music videos is often extremely complex, and extradiegetic in nature (see below)
• Music videos typically lack dialogue
• Music videos feature the artist as a characters rather than actors
• Music videos may lack a conventional narrative
• Music videos are regulated differently to films
• Music is the primary focus of music videos
• In music videos, typically there is a stronger relationship between video and music (cutting to the beat)

Diegesis and the world of sound

Diegetic: in the world of the narrative

Diegetic sound: sound situated within the narrative. Typically, the characters in the product could hear this sound!

Examples: birds squawking, speech, dialogue, Atmospheric sound, music with an onscreen source

Non-diegetic sound: sound outside of the world of the narrative

Examples: 99% of the time, this refers to 'score' music

Extra-diegetic sound: sound which exists between diegesis, for example narration, or music in a music video

How is celebrity encoded in the video to Judas by Lady Gaga?

• Eccentric, over the top and striking makeup choices throughout the video
• Her costume is even more outlandish than her backing dancers, who are typically wearing uniforms. She forms a binary opposition to everyone else
• She has a designated colour, blue, which is striking and makes her stand out, yet it also anchors significant religious significance, creating a blasphemous and controversial mode of address
• Revealing and daring costumes symbolise sexual confidence and attractiveness
• Use of high key lighting creates a spotlight effect, emphasising Gaga's attractiveness and importance
• Use of colour isolation constructs a binary between the colourful Gaga and the colourless apostles 

Revision: No Time To Die (2021)

What choices has the producer made when constructing representations? Make reference to KOTV and No Time To Die

Kneejerk reaction

Both of these posters present stereotypical and straightforward representations of gender and race to reflect the ideologies of the producer

Analysis

• The black Bond girl is represented as considerably more aggressive and violent than the other, white women in this poster. This representation is constructed through the MES of her gun and the military uniform she is wearing, which has symbolic connotations violence and aggression. This reinforces the ideological perspective than black people in media products take on certain stereotypical roles, and in this case, reinforces the stereotype that black people are dangerous, violent, and sexually attractive. 
• The black woman's gun forms a binary opposition to the white woman's gun. One is large and aggressive and clearly intended to kill, while the smaller gun is coded as being for protection
• Binary opposition between the ways the black and white bond girls are dressed reinforces certain stereotypical assumptions in terms of representation. Whole the black woman is dressed in an aggressive and militarististic style, the white woman is dressed in an elegant and frankly very revealing dress. The use of sexualisation here is highly similar to the use of sexualisation in KOTV, and indicates that women are predominantly utilised in media products as a spectacle for a heterosexual male audience
• The poster presents a very clear hierarchy of importance between the characters, and a white male takes the top of this hierarchy. James Bond represents British people, and is clearly a hyperreal, perfect, idealised representation 
• There clear indications of othering when representing non-British characters. James Bond is constructed through a binary opposition between him, and his back is turned on the other, predominantly non British character. This constructs the ideology that Great Britain is independent, and more powerful and more important than other nations.
• A binary opposition drawn between James Bond and the antagonist. Bond is represented as being significantly larger, emphasising his importance. Additionally, the Antagonist has significantly darker features, which stereotypically connotes mysterious, evil and evil nature, which contrasts with the pure and innocent James bond
• Another binary opposition is constructed between the stereotypically British Bond, and the stereotypically exotic Bond girls. Here, non-British women serve the function of looking beautiful, yet they also also are represented through their foreignness. bell hooks would argue that the representation of women is vastly more complicated than simply gender, and we see here strikingly different representations of black and white women for example

Revision: introduction to the newspaper questions

What kind of questions will we get?

This year, we KNOW newspapers will come up in component one section two, and we KNOW you will be asked a number of industry and context questions around them

How will we get marks?

You will get marks for knowledge and understanding of media studies (naturally!)

You will also get marks for knowledge and understanding of the contexts surrounding the newspapers you have studied

Basically, there's a lot of knowledge and understanding being assessed

How is this part of the exam structured?

You'll find a mixture of big questions and small questions here, everything from one mark to 16 mark. 

In total, all of the questions on newspapers will probably add up to 25. So you might get a 

2 mark

8 mark

15 mark kind of structure. 

Is there anything else we need to know and talk about?

You will get a prompt for one of the larger questions along these lines:

For question 3d, you will be rewarded for drawing together knowledge and understanding from across your full course of study, including different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts

What does this mean?

Basically, even though you will be asked industry type questions, you will get the opportunity to reference audience, media language and representation too. You may also wish to compare the newspapers to completely different texts and industries! So, in a question on regulation, you may wish to point out the regulation of the videogame industry and how this is particularly ineffective, and the regulation of the film industry, and how this is far more effective.

So do we talk about the Theresa May covers?

NO. You will need to talk about a completely different edition of both newspapers! We will study them this week.

You can find the new set editions by clicking here.

How many lessons will we have on this and what will we do in them?

Four lessons, with a total of six hours of class time. That's two Lord Of The Rings films. Thats a lot of time.

1 - Key terms - this session will address how to define the one and two marker questions in the most simple and straightforward way possible

2 - Power and profit - this session will explicitly look at how our case studies ensure they maintain ideological power and make profit. Theorists: Hesmondhalgh and Curran & Seaton 

3 - Regulation - how newspapers are regulated and the issues this brings up, both in print and digitally. Theorists: Livingstone and Lunt

4 - Context and alternatives - concluding the revision of newspapers, we will finish off analysing the case studies, think about why they are the way they are, and suggest some alternatives to the current model

What else  do we need to know?

Here's a checklist of terms you should be able to define and things you should know. It's big, but don't freak out: the answers are all very simple and straightforward. 

Key terms

Left wing

Right wing

Centrist

Curran and Seaton

Hesmondhalgh

Livingstone and Lunt

Vertical integration

Horizontal integration

Multimedia integration

Convergence

Digital convergence

Synergy

Conglomerate

Conglomeration

Unique selling point

Regulation

Self-regulation

Advert

Caption

Main Image

Masthead

Sell line

Banner advert

Classified advert

Copy/body copy

Broadsheet

Tabloid

Column

Getter

Edition

Filler

News values

Editorial

Distribution

Folio

Hard news

Soft news

Kill

If it bleeds, it leads

Libel

Reporter

Journalist

Splash

Pug

Key questions

Who owns The Mirror?

Who owns The Times?

Who owns a few other national newspapers?

What are three UK tabloids?

What are thee UK broadsheets?

Who regulates the UK newspaper industry?

Who used to regulate the newspaper industry?

What are some big controversies that have affected the UK newspaper industry?

Tasks

This session, you will construct either digital physical resources that tackle the following headings

Industry key terms

Newspaper key terms (with a labelled front cover/double page spread)

The difference between left and right wing politics

Tabloids vs broadsheets

The three industry theorists

Regulation and controversies 

Newspaper case studies Tuesday 22nd March 2022

 The Daily Mirror selected pages Tuesday 22nd March 2022

The Times selected pages Tuesday 22nd March 2022

These images are being used for educational purposes. All enquiries should be made to the media studies department at Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge. Thank you to Big Sam for scanning these images. It took him ages.