Newspapers: Final index

 1)newspaper: daily mirror introduction

2)newspaper: Daily mirror language and audience 

3)newspaper: Daily mirror Representation and industry

4)newspaper The times introduction

5)newspaper The times language and audience 

6)newspaper The times representation and industry

7)newspaper Essay question

Newspapers: Essay question

 ‘Different newspapers address their audiences differently.’

How far is this true of The Times and the Daily Mirror (Close Study Products)?

[20 marks]

This can be clearly shown by the way that they address and represent them,

in the Daily mirror they have larger images and more images than words than The Times, also the typography used in the daily mirror used is sans serif which is more modern and more friendly to the audience, while The times uses serif which is a more authoritative and more formal font, along with the font The times has a lot of information in it by having a large paragraph of information while the daily mirror has more splash heads and pictures and a little less information in their paragraph, and lastly the Daily Mirror has a ‘red top’ which is more colourful., The Times is more conservative in colour and design.

The daily mirror has more of "soft news" which contains celebrities and gossip of people and other things like the royal family being mentioned a whole lot, whereas The Times has more of a "hard news", things like terror attacks and a lot less gossip another thing is that the tone and way they speak and address their audience is a more formal tone for The Times by calling people by their real names and not giving nicknames to them, and a more colloquial term for the daily mirror by giving the royal family members nicknames to call them by.The Times main story

The times represents private schools (“Fee-paying schools”) very positively as they talk about saving the taxpayer's money, this is shown to the Times readers who may have attended private schools themselves or have their own children go to private school, this reinforces the fact that the Times audience is likely to be wealthy, highly educated and middle to upper-middle class, whereas the mirror focuses on 93% of children going to normal schools and 7% are going to private schools and about the MMR jabs,and the daily mirror's slogan of "fighting for you" which shows that they are targeting mainstream media and working class audience.

So in in conclusion, yes different newspapers address their audience differently

Newspapers: The Times - Representation and Industries

 Representation

1) What representation of private schools can be found on the main front page story of the Times?
The private school is seemed to be some sort of hero that they have saved millions of money for people paying for the school

2) What representation of the Conservative Party can be found in the story at the top of the front page 'Calls for criminal enquiry as top ministers deny security leak'?

It makes them seem like a bad person as the word "criminal" is associated with things that are illegal or bad

3) How are the Royal Family represented in the Times? (See front page 'Fitting tribute' - Duchess of Cambridge picture and the inside page 'Royal Anzac Day on both sides of the world'). 
They are represented as being important but not being the main event by not entirely covering up the paper so that other headlines or stories can actually be seen.

4) How does the coverage of the Royal Family in the Times contrast with the reporting of the same events in the Daily Mirror?

The Times has a more formal tone and representation to it while the daily mirror has a more colloquial tone to it by addressing its audience by saying different things and giving the royal family nicknames 

5) How are British people and Muslims represented in the article and sidebar 'Sri Lanka tourists warned of more terror'?

They make the British people the victims of the situation and the Muslim as a suspect and then makes them seem even worse by just addressing it as "muslims" which is a very offensive towards them

 


Industries

1) Who owns the Times? Write the name of the company AND the billionaire who owns the company.
The owner of the times is Rupert Murdoch
2) What was the The Times's circulation in 2019? How many papers did the Times used to sell back in the 1990s?
They have 417,298 in 2019 and they sold
3) How has the Times reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet?

4) What does IPSO stand for and what is IPSO's job?
IPSO stands for The Independent Press Standards Organisation and their job is to uphold high standards of of jornalism and maintain freedom of the press expression
5) Why do some people want stronger regulation of British newspapers? 
Instead of just having things like the royal family things being focused they want more on the main events, things like recent events or "proper news" like murder or new rules on the covid situation.

Grade 8/9 extension tasks

Key question: How does the coverage of the Royal Family in the Times reinforce British social and cultural values? 

Because Britain is known for their royalty and royal family, this put them in a more cultural area of the news section as it is part of the country itself

Read this Guardian column on IPSO, the press regulator. Why does Polly Toynbee suggest IPSO has been a "total failure"?

The reason why they were a failure was because they didn't succeed too much on focusing on smaller journalists so they ended up being redacted or not being allowed to spread their news around to the public, meaning that different views on the situation wouldn't be able to be there

Read this short Press Gazette feature on the Times's paywall. Why does the Times head of digital describe the paywall as a success? 

This is because they made a "good move" by moving their platform to digital and paper so that people can use it on their phones, at the same time they can still allow their elder or older audience be able to read their newspaper when ever they can if they can't use their device properly.

Newspapers: The Times - Language and Audience

 Audience

1) What is the main readership demographic for The Times newspaper? Add as much detail as you can.

The main demographic would be adults to more elderly people and some what young adults as the newspaper is both on paper and have an online website for the newspaper they have so that its easier for them to access the news and it would appear more frequently, the print newspaper would fit elderly and adults more as some of them might not be too keen on using technology so it would be easier for them to read.

2) What aspects of the front page of the Times CSP edition suggest that their readers are likely to be more 

educated and interested in hard news rather than entertainment?

The newspaper uses recent things that have happend, e.g political things, this shows the things that they readers to see also they can have the name of being the "news" to a more literal way so that they don't get criticised on their newspaper for only having entertainment but still have entertainment on it.

3) Times readers are mostly over 55 years old. Why is this and how is this reflected by the new stories and kickers in the CSP pages we have studied?  

Their newspapers are mainly focused on things that actually happen but that also includes things like the royal family being mentioned alot so the use of the print newspapers and the news that is inside, they make it more comfortable for the elderly to use, also the stories have things related to the events or things that the elderly are used to.

4) What is the main audience pleasure offered by the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory.

The main audience pleasure is to inform and educate as The Times newspaper mostly consist of things that are mostly for information purposes but at times there can be more entertainment

5) Why might a reader enjoy this CSP edition of the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory categories and write as detailed an analysis as you can.

Someone might enjoy the contents of the paper, like all the news about the royal family or the recent events that have happens because of certain people or something happening, so that they can go into more detail of the print paper or just the paper  itself.

Language

1) What is the main story on the front cover of the Times CSP edition (26 April 2019) and why does it appeal to Times readers?
It is about the royal family having a dispute about each other and how they tried to fix it, it may appeal to them because the royal family is something in Britain and is  quite a big subject so it will appeal to them by talking about what they like.

2) List the other news stories and kickers on the front page of the Times CSP edition. Why do you think the Times selected these for the front page?
The news about the royal family is very dominant on the print meaning that the whole newspaper seems to only be on the royal family, but there is one about a person "sri lanka tourist being warned for more terror", The Times may have picked this as it is still news and their newspaper isn't only about entertainment, so they need to include somethings that has happened currently otherwise would be said that they aren't a good news source

3) What are the main stories on the inside pages of the Times CSP edition and how are they constructed to appeal to Times readers?  

The Times' main stories are about the royal family and things that are related to British culture, these appeal to the reader as their news is mainly focused in England and it shows things about the place that they live in.

4) Which of Galtung and Ruge's News Values apply to the Times's front page stories? Write about both the main story on private schools and the government leak enquiry. 
They both talk about things that reflect things that may have major impacts towards the audiences in the future as they may change things to a way that they don't like or they could inform them about the things about how the private schools having some sort of changes to them e.g costing more as of the current coronavirus.

5) What does a close analysis of the news stories in the Times CSP edition suggest about the Times's political beliefs?
The times is a right wing party meaning that they support things like people of the LGBTQ community and are usually capitalists this can be shown from the news that they show and represent to the public like things about the royal family or things that have entertainment on them, they don't usually redact information from people, and usually have a sense of telling the audience for  what they want and still  informing them at the same time


Grade 8/9 extension tasks

Read this Guardian column on the pleasures of print newspapers and the dangers of the digital age. Do you think newspapers will continue to exist in the future? Why? 

Well I think that print newspapers wont continue to exist in the future as now news can be accessible to pretty much anyone, it can show on TVs, phones, computers even news publishers are getting social media accounts to reach out to the public and try to get used to them or act as a friend towards them.

Newspapers: The Times - Introduction

 

1) What year was The Times founded and when did it start using the Times name?

It was founded in the 1785's and they started to use the name "The times" in 1788

2) What content did John Walter suggest the paper would offer in the first edition?

He said that he wanted something to "suit everyone's pallet" this means that he wanted to put everything and anything that he wanted to get a hold of during the time

3) What does the page say about the political views in The Times? 

They use it to "applaud" or "censure" them

4) Who owns The Times today and how is editorial integrity protected?

It is now being supported by the New labour and coservatives parties

5) What did The Times introduce in 2010 and why?

They introduced a digital version of their newspapers so that people could read it where ever they go

6) What was The Times named in 2018 by the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford University?

It was named, Britains's most trusted national newspaper

7) What does the section on Editorial Standards say about The Times and newspaper regulation?

It says that they take complaints of the people an then they go ahead and abid the independent press standards organisation 

8) What does the section on Ownership say about The Times and who is the current editor? 

They are published and owned by times paper limited and the current editor would be John Witherow