The Times fact file
Circulation - 365000 copies daily circa 2020 vs 686000 in 2005 which indicates fluctuations but also a steady
Distribution - physical distribution (print, £2:20) and online distribution (website, paywalled, £26/ month subscription)
Producer - News Corp, an absolutely enormous global conglomerate, owned by Rupert Murdoch. News UK a subsidiary of News Corp.
News UK newspaper - Telegraph, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The News Of The World
News Corp - Fox, Sky, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Classic FM. Highly diverse and divergent business practices
Vertically or horizontally integrated? - Both!
Target demographic - middle aged, middle class, centre right wing
Regulatory body - IPSO (previously the PCC following the News Of The World phone hacking scandal)
Political ideology - Centre right (supports the conservative party but the ideologies it presents are ‘more moderate’)
Controversies - News UK implicated in widespread phone hacking, routinely violating the privacy of private individuals
To what extent are newspapers shaped by their ownership? Make reference to The Times to support your answer [15]
Underline the key terms
To what extent are newspapers shaped by their ownership? Make reference to The Times to support your answer [15]
Knee jerk reaction
The Times has been shaped by it’s multinational right wing conglomerate ownership to a massive extent
Plan
News Corp
Masthead
Stuart Hall - reception
Hesmondhalgh - conglomerates, integration, vertical and horizontal
Middle aged middle class target audience
Cultivation of ideology
Circulation 365000 2020
Broadsheet
Centre Right
Curran and Seaton - control, power, profit
Paywall
Brand identity
Exclusive
Main image
Headlines
Bylines
Lexis
Formal mode of address
Distribution
Physical and online
Regulation (IPSO, ineffective, Livingstone and Lunt)
Introduction
DAC - definition, argument, context
Ownership refers to a company that owns a media product. Depending on the size ena ideology of the company media products can be shaped in radical ways. In this essay I shall argue that the Time has been significantly shaped by it’s right wing, multinational conglomerate ownership. The Times is a centre right UK Broadsheet that targets a middle class, middle aged audience.
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PEA - Point, evidence, argument
One way in which the Times has been shaped by its ownership is…
High production values
Right wing ideological perspective - manipulating an already right wing audience
Formal mode of address
Pricing models
Benefitting from ineffective regulation - phone hacking scandal - huge issues of ethics
Motivated by need to make a profit