News
Monday 11th December 2023
Do Now: 5/5 :D
1) Audience, Representation, Media Language, Industry ✅
2) Costume, Lighting, Actors/action ,hair and makeup, props & setting✅
3) Historical, Political, Social ✅
4) What it might represent ✅
5) What is represented ✅
What is news?
L/O - To explore the history of the news industry and
the genres of newspaper
What is the purpose of news?
- To inform people
- Persuade people
- Entertain
- Manipulate
- Educate
- Profit
200 years ago people would talk to each other to get news. The printing press was then invented and news was then printed. In 1950's & 1960's TVs were invented allowing people to watch the news from home. The peak of Newspaper circulation was 1950's before TV's came about. Decline in newspaper since TV's
Class Divide:
- Broadsheet
- MidMarket
- Tabloid
Do Now: 5/5 :D
1) Educate, inform, profit, persuade, entertain ✅
2) People sharing news via conversation ✅
3) The printing press ✅
4) TV in the 1950's/60's ✅
5) Hard news, formal language, more copy less image ✅
1) A tabloid newspaper is a newspaper which mainly uses images to get a point across
For example: The sun, Daily mirror, The times
Features: Red box, lots of images, not a lot of writing
2) A Broadsheet newspaper is a newspaper which mainly uses text to get a point across.
For example: Daily express, The Sunday times, Financial times
Features: Lots of writing, usually only one or two images
3) A Hybrid newspaper is a mixture between the two of them, it has a couple of images and some paragraphs of writing.
For Example:
Features: Some writing, some images
Ownership:
L/O - To explore the nature and ownership of the
news industry.
Media Barons - Rupert Murdoch owns The Sun, The times & The sun on Sunday
Trusts - Scott Trust own: The Guardian, the observer
Lord Rothermere owns Daily Mail
Cross media converged conglomerate - global institutions that own numerous media outlets. These may be owned by media barons.
Main aim of newspapers is to make money.
The content ends up being whatever is popular.
Three quarters of the British press is owned by some billionares. Over a quarter of the press is owned by Lord Rothermere and another quarter to Rupert Murdoch. Between them both these men own over 50% of the news.
Newspapers and their online publications are not legally obliged to provide true information
This means that the audience is not provided with true information and they may not believe the news. The audiences attitude towards news could become negative and their opinions will be negative also.
There are ethical and moral codes of press conduct but the printed press is self regulatory industry.
The daily mail & general trust|Mail. |39%
Rupert Mordoch |Sun, Times|28%
Reach |Star,express
Telegraph Group
Gaurdian media group
Nikkei
Monday 15th January 2024
Do Now: 3/5 :)
1) Scotts trust ✅
2) Cross media converged conglomerate Media Baron ❌
3) Rupert Murdoch cross media converged conglomerate❌
4) Lord Rothermere ✅
5) 71% ✅
How does media ownership contribute to news bias?
- Commercial Advertising
- Political opinion
- Business interest
- Profit
- Newspapers aren't usually profitable.
- Newspapers are seen as gaining political and social influence
- Observer and Guardian are owned by a trust
- Liberal values have meant support from the Guardian for both the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats.
- The Guardian bought the Observer in 1993
- Newspaper editors invariably insist in public that the owner never interferes with the content of the newspaper.
- The owner will appoint the editor
- British politicians have routinely met with Rupert Murdoch before elections, presumably to seek support
- The Leveson inquiry into the press found that politicians of all party's have developed a too close relationship with the press.
- 1960's newspapers depended on circulation and advertising for revenue
Political Bias of the UK's Newspapers:
- The Guardian - Left Wing
- The Mirror - Left Wing
- The Independent - In the middle
- The Times - Right Wing
- The Telegraph - Right Wing
- The Sun - Right Wing
- The Daily Express - Right Wing
- The Daily Mail - Right Wing
How do Newspapers make money?
- Sales
- Advertising
- Paywalls and membership
- Events & Other sales
- Sponsored Content
Monday 29th January 2024
For:
- Protect privacy
- Protect privacy
- Hold newspapers to account
Against:
Against:
- Press freedom to avoid bias
- No control - so can investigate sensitive areas
Audience:
L/O - To investigate the audience for the Observer Publication.
- Shop
- Online websites
- Social Media - Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube
Who owns the Guardian/Observer?
- The Scott Trust
What political stance do they have?
- The Scott Trust
What political stance do they have?
- Left Wing
How are they regulated?
- Self regulated
How do they make money?
- Sales
- Advertising
- Paywalls and membership
- Events & Other sales
- Sponsored Content
They don't have a PAYWALL for their online publications, instead they have a subscription/voluntary donation system - why do you think this is?
Target Audience - The observer
Age Range - 35+
Gender - Male and Female (50-50)
Where they live - South London
Social Class - Middle Class ABC1
Political View - Left Wing
Values -
Interests -
Convergence means making the product available to all audiences, adding it to new platforms
Convergence applies to the observer because it puts their newspaper on websites online for other audiences to look at.
Digital convergence helps the observer appeal to a wider audience because it allows more people to have access to it as a lot of people have access to the internet.
Monday 5th February 2024
Do Now:
1) Newspapers make money by getting people to pay for memberships. Memberships will allow people access to the newspaper whenever they want online and they pay to do that. Giving the owners of the newspaper money. Newspapers also make money by selling the newspaper in general, selling them in stores and other places is a good way to make money.
Media Language:
L/O - Investigating how print newspapers
use media language to create meaning.
Advantages of online newspapers:
- Easier to access
- Publish it faster
- Don't have to pay people to print it
- No factory cost
- Good for industry as not wasting paper
Disadvantages of online newspapers:
- Don't have to pay (disadvantage for people who own it)
- Need internet
Liberalism - Willingness to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one's own; openness to new ideas.
Internationalism - The state or process of being international.
Patriarchy - A system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.
Racism - the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
Consumerism - Buying things
Multi-culture - Appreciating different cultures
Masthead - Serif font - Black - Bold - sophisticated, traditional, serious - hard hitting.
DateLine - Sunday 4th February 2024
Byline -
Headline - Serif font - black - not bold, traditional, serious, politics
Subhead -
Caption -
Standfirst -
Copy -
Main Image - Serious, formal, posh, positive, in control
Minor Images - Less serious, food, celebrities
Columns -
Skybox -
Pull Quote - Suggests more informal, personalised.
Monday 19th February 2024
Do Now: /4
1) An advantage of print newspapers for the industry is that they make a lot of money by selling them, unlike online newspapers people need to buy the print ones.
An advantage for the audience is that you don't need technology to access the daily news.
A disadvantage for the industry is that it takes more money to produce print newspapers.
Political Bias:
- Left Wing, on main story
- Zelinskey pleads for help - begging
- Observer voices their needs.
Owned by Guardian Media Group:
- 'Newspaper of the year'
- Promotes the link to Guardian Media Group
Representation; People, cultures, races, people, gender, sexuality, class:
- Focus' on different cultures - objective wars
Variety of features:
Choice of text/image placement & size:
Monday 26th February 2024
Do Now:
1) Typography is what the text looks like, colour, size, font, etc.
2) The layout is referring to what how the elements of the newspaper are placed on the page
3) Lexis is the words used on the newspaper cover
4) The masthead is the main heading
5) The section at the top of the newspaper
Historical Case Studies:
social, cultural, political and
historic contexts on 1960s
newspapers
Guardian/Observer now would not have changed
1 - "Lawyers will urge divorce by consent" - Shows that women were not able to file for divorce until this time
2 - "Wilson Brown market clash" - reflects political context
3 - "So polite this North Sea spy game", "America accused of Spy frame-up" - reflects prevalence of spy stories in the 1960s cold war historical context
4 - "Jackie: We're very happy" - Patriarchal context in which women are mainly defined by their relationships with men.
Monday 4th March 2024
Do Now: 5/5
1) What is the navigation bar?
A link to the appropriate section/page in a website that helps readers in traversing the online document ✅
2) What is the banner referring too?
A heading or advertisement appearing on the web page in form of a bar, column or box. ✅
3) What is a pull quote?
Made up of text that is pulled from the text that is, duplicated and presented on the page as an attention-grabbing visual element ✅
4) What is the stand-first?
The first summary paragraph of a text in a newspaper article ✅
5) What is the masthead?
The title of the newspaper ✅
1 - "Lawyers will urge divorce by consent" - Women have more rights - social change, starting more towards gender equality. Patriarchal society of the 1960s because law council was staffed by men and women didn't have the same rights to divorce.
2 - "Wilson Brown market clash" - Political News story, surrounding Europe and relationships with Britain. Complex relations.
3 - "So polite this North Sea spy game", "America accused of Spy frame-up" - Cold war - America, soviet union, Russia, Britain, Russian planes over the UK. "spy," "game" - historical context, fear of invasion, "game" suggests fun
Cold War - the state of hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
4 - "Jackie: We're very happy" - reflects a patriarchal context in which women are most often defined in terms of their relationship with men; here the dead US Presidents wife makes a controversial second marriage. The front pages are characterised by women
5 - "Unions postpone strike" - Illustrates the high level of coverage strikes in the 1960s, reflecting greater union power in that decade. Barbara castle is mentioned - the only female politician in all three front pages - as trying to argue for a move towards 'narrowing the differentials' in pay for men and women, showing the patriarchal culture of the 1960s and the limited attempt to create greater gender equality before the Equal Pay Act.
6 - "Briton shoots a gold" - this article mentions the black power protest at the Mexico olympics, reflecting the anti-racist movements of the 1960s.
7 - "Stephen Pollock... with Elizabeth Vambe, 21, a Rhodesian-born African, after their marriage yesterday" - reflects the context of a white culture that sees what were known as 'mixed marriages' as so unusual to be newsworthy.
Vietnam:
- Physical War, death
- Cease fire, movement to oppose governments and social power
"Hopes rise for cease-fire in Vietnam"
Monday 11th March 2024
Do Now:
- Sexism
- Racism
- Homophobia
Historical Case Studies:
L/O - To evaluate the impact of
social, cultural, political and
historic contexts on 1960s
newspapers. To structure an exam
style response.
The observer cover from the 1960s reflects that racism was apparent in society, this is evident in the headline that reads "Briton shoots a gold". The fact that the person who wrote the article uses the word "Negroe" in such an unfazed way shows that it wasn't a big deal to use that word in the 1960s. When Lee Evans was being interviewed he says about how he had to run fast to get a scholarship to go to university. Showing that black people didn't have as many rights as white people, and most couldn't afford to go to school. This meant that people of colour had to work incredibly hard to achieve a scholarship just to go to a good school, that according to this article white peoples parents could afford.
The observer cover from the 1960s reflects that a patriarchal society was evident in society, this is shown through the headline that reads "Jackie: We're very happy", in this article Jackie is only seen as a wife and not a person, her husband was the president who was assassinated and then as she was remarried she was only spoken about as her husbands wife. The article doesn't say a lot about her, reflecting the patriarchal society in the 1960s and that women weren't respected or spoken about a lot in newspapers.
The observer cover from the 1960s reflects that war was a big thing in society, this is shown through the headline "Hope rises for cease fire in Vietnam" this article speaks about the Vietnam war in detail, telling the readers about whats going on, showing us that the wars were important and meant something to the 1960s culture.
Monday 18th March 2024
Exam Format
L/O - To explore the exam format and
content for news unit
Question 6:
1 Mark question - industry or terminology
6) Globalisation
6) Broadsheet
Question 7:
4 Mark explain question: Social Media & Online Press (Industry)
7) An advantage for online news is that it is quicker to access as internet is a lot faster than walking to the supermarket to get one.
An advantage for print newspaper is that it gives the community a wider access to news, for the older generation who don't like to use internet.
Question 8:
5 Mark unseen extract short analysis question: contemporary print (media language and representation)
8) An under represented social group on the cover of the observer is, the woman in the yellow skybox, she is represented as female, she's represented as strong and powerful and she seems confident as she's smiling, the headline tells us what she has done which connotes the feeling of her being strong and powerful.
Question 9:
15 mark unseen extract long analysis question: contemporary print (Media Language & Contexts)
L - Media Language
I - Industry
A - Audience
R - Representation
Genre = type
The media language of the observer reflects the generic connotations of a broadsheet newspaper
Monday 25th March 2024
Do Now:
1) Tabloid has lots of images, not a lot of text
2) Broadsheet has lots of text, one main image
3) Observer is a broadsheet
4) 
Guided Practice Q9:
L/O - To explore the exam format for
Q9 for the news unit and apply
analysis skills and exam writing
technique
- Yes, its a broadsheet
- Intro: Yes, it is a broadsheet, there is a lot of text/copy. The masthead, one main image & headline.
P1: Masthead - bold, serif, black & white, capitals & lowercase. Sense of serious news, serif font shows a traditional element - formal.
P2: Image - Mid-shot, press conference, staged photo, Rishi Sunak + American Politician. Positive image - Formality, suits, body language, shaking hands and smiling. Hard news - politics - expected in the industry for a broadsheet. UK & USA work together, politically and have done so throughout since WWI and WWII. Faces and flags show a union.
P3: Copy: Audience expect a lot of copy. They buy the copy, knowing that they will get what they want - a news story which is well described
This newspaper is a broadsheet, this is because of all of its features including a lot of copy, the masthead, one main image and the headline.
The masthead for this newspaper is in a serif font and it is bold, it has black and white for the colours, appealing for the older generation as older people would like to see traditional colours on newspapers. The font and colour for the masthead gives the newspaper a sense that it will contain some serious news, serif font shows the reader a traditional element to the newspaper, and it also gives it a formal look. Making it appealing to the upper class and older generation.
The image for this newspaper is a mid-shot and takes place at a press conference. It is a staged photo with Rishi Sunak and an American Politician. The image gives off a positive vibe due to the formality of it, both people are wearing suits and the body language between the two suggests a positive interaction as they both smile and shake hands. The image suggests hard news as it involves politics, which is expected in the industry for a broadsheet. The UK and the USA are working together politically just like they have many years before. The faces and the flags in the background show a union.
The copy on this newspaper is evident for a broadsheet as there is a lot of it, which audience would expect to see on a broadsheet newspaper. An audience would buy this newspaper knowing they're getting what they want and that the news story they want to read about will be well described and have a lot of information about what the audience want to read about.
Overall, this newspaper proves to have a lot of broadsheet characteristics meaning that it is evident that this is a broadsheet newspaper.
Monday 15th April 2024
Do Now:
1) LIAR stands for Media Language, industry, audience, representation
2) 1960s - Cold war, Television, Racism, Patriarchy
3) Now - Ukraine war, Accepting (sexuality, race, gender), internet (globalisation) .
PPE Exam Dirt
L/O - To reflect on the exam and identify areas to improve
Q6) Age/Gender
Q7) There is no central regulator for the internet
8) The newspaper has the typical conventions of a broadsheet as the text is more formal than a tabloid would be.
Q9) Introduction & Conclusion, focus on representation, link to context
This newspaper represents a typical observer cover as the main image shows equality. There is an equality of gender and race, and Serena Williams is not sexualised like other newspapers. The observer has broken stereotypes by doing this and they have been liberal.
10) In the 1960s they tended to use a lot more formal language than newspapers do today, they also had a lot worse photographs than today because they did not have as good photography or cameras in the 1960s, unlike today where our images are clear due to the better cameras.
Monday 22nd April 2024
Do Now:
1) What are the values and beliefs of the observer?
- Left Wing - change, equality, progress, supporting others
2) What are the conventions of a broadsheet newspaper?
- Lots of copy
- Potentially 3 images
- Complex lexis
- Skybox
- Black and serif font for masthead
Exam Format Q9
L/O - To explore the exam format and content for the news unit
Q9: Judgement
Language
Industry
Audience
Representations
Contexts: Gender Roles, Multiculturalism, lifestyles, democracy/liberal viewpoint, consumerism, celebrity culture
Media Language:
- Image(s)
- lots of copy
- Masthead
- Colour Palette
- Layout
Contexts:
- Gender Roles
- Multiculturalism
- Celebrity lifestyle
- Lifestyle (Skybox) Lifestyle = audience, Skybox = representations
The observer cover reflects the typical conventions of a broadsheet newspaper, this includes the lack of images and increase in text, there is one large main image and other smaller ones in the skybox. Monday 29th April 2024
Do Now
1) What are the conventions of a tabloid newspaper?
- Lots of images - Less hard news - Little copy - Colourful
2) What are the conventions of a broadsheet newspaper?
- Lots of copy - One main image and a skybox - Hard news - Less Colourful
3) What are the conventions of the observer?
- Broadsheet - Left Wing
Q10 Modern Analysis
L/O - To explore the contextual
issues of news in a modern newspaper
The observer cover represents celebrity lifestyle which appeals to the target audience as their interests typically revolve around celebrities and lifestyles.
Definition of context - History, exposition behind topic - background, influences, what was going on at the time?
1) Wars - Russia/Ukraine, Palestine/Israel
2) Lifestyle - More equality
3) Less patriarchal
4) More advanced technology, mobile phones, printers, computers, internet
5) Consumerism - Buying things
6) Fame, celebrities
7) Online News
2) Multicultural
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5) Consumerism - food
6) Alan Davies - actor
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The observer cover from today depicts the contextual issue of racism, an example of this is seen in the observer newspaper with the black lives matter protest, this indicates that in todays society we value multi-culturalism. Therefore it is clear to see that contextual issues that are relevant at the time are reflected in the newspapers produced. To conclude, the society today is very accepting of different races, sexualities and genders.
8/1/24- 2.Great notes today, well done. Keep engaged in class discussions and answering questions.
ReplyDelete22/4- Good clear ML analysis- T: comment on context and audience.
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