news

 Tuesday 13th September 2022     what is news?

LO: to explore the history of the news industry and the genres of newspaper. 

what is the purpose of news? 

to let people know what going on in the world.

to entertain them, gives people gossip, also give them actives. 

to educate them 

profit is to get money

influence/persuade 

by 1950/60s tv occurred. 

by 1965 Sunday newspaper had fallen to 25 millions. 

in 2010 newspapers went down to about 10 million. 

this is much more formal and based on politics, finance and international news. the language is formal. the target audience is more for those is most likely care about politics and finance. broadsheet is more more based on information then entertainment. 

tabloid        

the mirror 

the sun 

the star 

broadsheet

the telegraphy

the time

the guardian 

the financial times 

The i

hybrid 

daily mail 

daily express

Thursday 27th September 2022   what is news? 

LO: to explore the nature and ownership of the new history. 

media barons- owned by wealthy individuals or proprietors e.g. rupert Murdoch. 

trusts- a lego arrangement that transfers funds from the owner to trustee to manage and control the running of the paper. e.g. Scott trust. 

71% of news is own by 3 people

biased fake news is possibly  

bbc design to balance 

DMG and lord Rothermere own the daily mail, in January 2022 regain control. they always had control but now brought back the company.  

the guardians media group owns the Scott trust. 

Their main aim is making money and this impact the content because they are going to put out things that are popular and its fake news, this impact on the audience because they are buying them, also wasting money on buying fakes news and they believe what they see. 

the information that are provided for the audience can be fake. this can impact on the audience attitudes and opinions because they might believe whats the newspaper say and can cloud their judgement ad their opinion can easily change with the information that they were given. 

DMG - mail - 39%

news corp - sun, times - 28%

reach - star, express, mirror, people, daily record

telegraph - telegraph - 5% 

guardian media group - guardian, observer

nikkei - financial times - 2% 

biased opinion 

it can impact weather its true or not

postive/negative

truth maybe miss leading

 

Tuesday 11th October 2022     newspaper funding and regulation

LO: to explore the impact of newspaper funding and regulation on the printed press. 

how does media ownership contribute to news bias?

• the owners views and opinion shows 
• its shares as a fact. 
• lack of views 3 billionaire
• some articles do better then others and can influction them to do more.  

Newspaper gaining political and social influence are often owned by rich individuals. The guardian and observer are owned by a trust set up. These liberal values have meant support from the guardian for both the party and the liberal democrats. The guardian media group bought the observer in 1993. 

The observer, Sunday newspaper established in 1791, the first Sunday paper published in Britain. it is one of England quality newspapers. 

  Though early editions of advertisements for the paper promised a paper “Unbiased by Prejudice - Uninfluenced by Party...Whose Principal is Independence”, Bourne attempted to cut his losses and sell the title to the government. They declined. 

Newspaper editors insist in public that the owner never interferes with the content of the newspaper. The owner however, will appoint the editor so they have a great deal of power. British politicians have routinely met with rupert murdoch before election, presumably to seek his support.  The levesan inquiry into the press found that potitlicans of all parties had developed too close a relationship with the press. 

free press means that newspapers, magazines ect, have the freedom to share their opinion on things without getting into trouble. 

The pressed jeopardise freedom of the press which lost them a lot of credibility and trust. The pressed invaded people privacy. they hacked into a girl phone and looked through her messages and looked through a little girl bag while she was in school. this loss the trust of the public. The press has loads off freedom to print things out without getting into trouble.  in response to plans by the government to create a regulatory body if they did not do so, the press set up their organisation to regulatory press behaviour and enforced a code of practice. this was ineffective. The news of the world was exposed after a long campaign by the guardian, as having hacked a voicemail of a young murder victim in such a way thought that she was still alive. 

Tuesday 1st November 2022     newspaper case study

LO: to investigate the observer/guardian publication. 

question 6: 1 mark question 

knowledge-only question tend to test identification of: 

• the Scott trust
• liberal lift
• donation

question 7: 4 mark question 

convergence can be understood as the progressive merging of traditional broadcast and internet content. 

this applies to the observer because they can put the newspaper on the internet. so they have print and online. 

convergence helps the observer appeal to wider audience because its is online plus it is free and they don't have to wast money on actual newspaper. it also can reach a younger audience. 

newspaper and online version are similar by talking about the same things such as sports, arts, music ect. the difference is that online version has comments and its is layout a bit differently. 

Tuesday 15th November 2022     media language

LO: to investigate how print newspaper use media language to create meaning. 

active and passive audience

traditionally the audience for a newspaper was primarily passive they could choose which newspaper to buy and could write to the editor but would otherwise have to accept what they were given. 

the advantages of online newspaper are that the audience aren't wasting money on printed newspaper, they can even comment on online newspaper. 

the disadvantage is lack of sale and comments can effect the industry. 

  it is left wing the headline show this because it is critazing pupils.  

Tuesday 29th November 2022      media language

LO: to investigate how online newspapers use media language to create meaning. 

The advantages for online newspaper is that you can access anywhere you like such as on your phone when you are out and about plus it is free. The disadvantages is the comments. in the comments people can share their views and say some hurtful things and it is less money for them. 

it is left wing- critique of tory in 2 articles 

gender- on the front page its show 2 women and a male which show equality as you stroll down to news where its shows football news where is male only. 

ethnicity- there is ranges of ethic backgrounds 

culture- on world news it is sharing all different types of culture and the importance and priority of these different culture. 

the colour palette vans from the printed. on the online vision  the red conndtaion of news and importance and danger. 

on the font cover you are expect to see left wing. the typography is a black serif that links to the printed version of the observer, the red is showing the importance of the news and danger. 

 

Tuesday 13th December 2022    Historical case studies

LO: to evaluate the impact of social, cultural, political and historic context on 1960s newspapers. 

in the 1960s the masthead of the observer is smaller then it is now this seems to be popular in the 1960s. the advert on the cover is on the right side. The main image  

2020S political bias 

Mirror- labour 

Daily express- conservatives 

the time- conservaties 

daily telegraph- conservatives 

guardian- labour 

(i got the wrong one)

the logo and the mashead takes from the 'o' to create a brand. 

repatriation of font and colour black 

social media e.g twitter/instagram  does not included the bright colours. found in the sky box of the print version.  

Tuesday 10th January 2023    historical case studies question 

LO: to evaluate the impact of social, cultural, political and historic contexts on the 1960s newspapers. 

explain how broadsheet newspapers reflect the time and historic contexts i which they were published. refer to the observer front page from 1960s that you have studied to support your answer. {10 marks}

The observer newspaper reflected the time and historic in the front cover in the 1960s. They have talked about equality. They talked about divorced. 'lawyers will urge divorce by consent' this change will help make it easy for women to get divorced which at that time was leading towards gender equality. This indicate that back then it wasn't that easy to get a divorced. 

The observer newspaper not only talked about rights but what was going on at that time which was important in 1960s and why society were afraid.  They mention about the cold war which was going on at that time. 'america accused of spy frame' people fear of the spies, the nuclear weapon and the fear of Russia. this made people back in 1960s scared of the cold war and the weapons. 3x times stories which showed that it was big and important. 'hopes rises for cease fire in vietnam'  not many people agree with the cold war and people were anti-war and believe that it should end. 

10/1- Good work on the Divorce story. T: You just need to explain what the other stories show in full sentences to cover how the 1960s society were afraid of another war and that the concept of the cold war was something that was a high priority. 

Tuesday 24th January 2023    

theoretical framework: 

• audience 
• industry -press ownership 
• representation 
• media language

1 mark question: industry and terminology 

4 mark explain question: social media and online press (industry) 

5 mark unseen extract short analysis question: contemporary print (media language and representation) 

15 mark unseen extract long analysis question: contemporary print (media language and context) 

10 mark analysis: historical case study (representation and context) 

Q6: globalisation 

Q6: broadsheet 

hard news- serious and hard hitting news.  

soft news- sensationalised and celebrity gossip.   

Q7: one advantage is that the older genratation  still buy the printed vision meaning they get money.  

the advantage for online is that the younger one will see it without them spending money.

Q8: the representation of the social group can be shown in the front cover. on the observer front cover it is presenting the main image of a group of people is protesting, fighting for who they are and it is being shown as strong, brave. they are all standing together shows that they are not afraid to fight for what they believe in. another social group being shown is a man talking about gardening with an image of him near nature. 

  

Q9: the front page of the observer 

Tuesday 7th February 2023     question 9 and 10 guided responses

LO: to explore the exam response structure for Q9 and Q10. 

question 9:

mark 15 unseen extract long analysis question: contemporary print (media language and contexts) 

you must analyse the extract and make a clear judgement. 

in this question you will be rewarded for drawing together elements from your full course of study, including different areas of the theoretical framework and media context.  

how far does the media language in extract 3, the front page of the observer, reflect genre conventions? 

in your answer you should: 

• analyse the media language in extract 3, giving examples from the extract
• make judgements and draw conclusions about her far the media language reflects generic conventions or other areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts.

framework

L- Language (media): typography, layout, lexis, image, colour palette 

I- industry 

A- audience

R- representation 

contexts

(10 marks)

judgement: gerne convention- broadsheet  

broadsheet: 

• text to image ratio 
• colour palette-bright skybox
• the masthead-typography

industry

• serous  

audience

• culture-broadsheet- sky box

representation 

• BLM protest supporting minority groups
• articles are from a rage of background 

media contexts:

gender roles 

multiculturalism 

lifestyle 

democracy/liberal viewpoint

consumerism 

celebrity culture

the Observer newspaper front cover reflect genre conventions of a broadsheet. An example of this is the masthead. The masthead indicates that the observer newspaper is a formal by the use of the typography. the masthead is a serif front and uses both lower and upper capitals that are used correctly which shows that it is a serous newspaper and could indicates that its will share hard hitting news and to educate the public. the use of the colour shares that formalness and seriousness with the black front and the white background. another example is the representation thats shows that the observer is a broadsheet. they have mentioned big and serous topics that was going on at the time such as the black lives matter protesting and lots of others rage of backgrounds the image where the black people are protesting prove my point that its shares deep, serious news. This would show that this is a broadsheet by sharing different topics that are important. It is clear that the the observer does use media language to show the genre conventions of a broadsheet.  

Tuesday 14th March 2023      question 10 contextual analysis 

LO: to explore the structure for Q10 and contextual issues in news. 

espionage 'north sea spy game' - fear, several headline on it- importance fear of invasion- fear threatening us vs them past ww2 

gender quality 'lawyers will urge divorce by consent' - 

the observer newspaper from the 1960s has reflected on the historical context on what was going on due that time. An example of this is in the representation of gender quality. This is seen in the headlines of the observer newspaper. this indicates that the society in the 1960s were women were now allow to divorce their husband with consent.  this shows that women were only important for marriage and being a wife. they were not allow to divorce their husband. this headline shows that gender equality is being more acceptable. 

Tuesday 28th March 2023   exam dirt

LO: to reflect on the exam and identify to improve. 

identify the term used to describe a 'quality' newspaper such as the observer the term originally describe the size of the paper

broadsheets

the sun has a red box and big text 

the observer has a more text which shows that it is a broadsheet 

explain two reasons why print newspaper survive despite the growth of online news? [4]

• older people prefer printed newspaper. 
• not all people have internet 
• traditional 
• trustworthy 
• audience loyalty-they may prefer printed newspaper as they always use the same newspaper as part of their routine. 

printed newspaper have survive despite the growth of online news because the older people like the printed vision better and may not know how to use social media and it easier to read the printed newspaper this help the newspaper because the older people are still buying them and it means that the newspapers are still gaining money. another reason is that a lot of people find that the printed one is much trustworthy then the online one because the online one can be edited and changed whereas the printed is already done and it is one paper where is can not be changed. 

Analysed how the observer front represents two social groups that are often under represented in the media

• ethnic groups 
• women 
• mental health 
• transgender 
• vegan/vegetanans 

the observer has represented two social groups that are under represented in the media by having chair in the skybox. she is representing women as older actress in the film industry. a group in that is under the representation in the media. chair is an older women who is in an very popular film musical mamma Mia, she is representing that older women can be in a popular musical and be an actress. 

skybox 

-colour-bright

-image, smiling 

-audience 

news 

-black and white

-image, serious

-audince, like serious things

the media language that is used in the news review and the free food magazine differ from the media language that is used in the news. In the skybox the colour scheme is colourful and bright with the colours of orange, pink, red and yellow where as the news section is just black and white. the sky box shows more of the fun things like the image of someone smiling which shows that it is happy, the news however shows less fun things and more important news. the image that is shown is serious and important that differ from the skybox. the skybox shows what the audience may like which is the nice part and like the news it also shows what the audience may like but with the hard hitting and more important. the news is more directed towards a world range of people. the news is using a more formal language then the skybox which is using less formal language. In conclusion the media language that is used on the front cover of the observer are different. 

social and culture has influential the printed newspaper today by sharing more important and serious . Today you see more things about gender, different culture, racism and the changing attitudes towards sexualities. whereas in  the 1960s you didn't talk much about racism and the changing about social and culture groups. they were just starting to talk about women and gender. this shows that social and culture has influence the printed newspaper today to share more information about really important things. 

Tuesday 23rd May 2023   exam format Q9

LO: to explore the exam format and content for the news unit. 

6. 1 mark question: industry and terminolog

7. 4 mark explain question: social media and online press

8. 5 mark unseen extract short analysis: 

9. 15 mark unseen extract long analysis: 

make a conclusion 

10. 10 mark analysis: historical case study

framework: 

LIAR: 

• language 
• industries 
• audience 
• representation 

what makes it look like a broadsheet? 

liberal viewpoint: left or right wing: Ukraine fighting/supporting those in need 

text to image: more text then image: reflects a broadsheet 5 column of text  

hard hitting news 

The online observer represented its values and beliefs. The different section that split things up such as news and sports which is sharing values and beliefs for example in the news part of the online newspaper where its says 'the chelsea flower show embraces trend for grow-your-own veg' this shows values, arts and beliefs. this fits the representation of values and beliefs because its embracing something different, sharing something that is value to them and is sharing what they believe in. 

Equality: media language: sky box-image: male- not stereotypical (wearing bunning)- context of the time which shows gender equality  

The observer represented equity in the skybox. In the skybox the image of a male is representing  gender roles because the male is wearing bunny ears this is surburting stereotype this is showing equity in the modern times. usually the woman would be on the baking and wearing the bunny ears. Another is that the skybox is bight coloured. this is showing gender roles because the male wouldn't usually be something brightly coloured. the skybox is bight pink and yellow this reforces the values of gender and beliefs. This also shows what was going on at the time which was gender equality. In conclusion this represented equity, gender role and values.