Arans Media Exam

1) What are the top five stories? Are they examples of soft news or hard news? 1. Backpacker from Liverpool faces TEN YEARS in a Thai prison after spray-painting 'Scouse Lee' on an 800 year old fortress-(Hard news ) 2. Megan cradles her baby bump on Bondi Beach and wears £880 maxi dress before she and Harry kick off their shoes to join an 'anti-bad vibes circle' with surfing mental health group- Soft news 3. Strictly dancer Dianne Buswell SPLITS her boyfriend amid claims she was 'getting too close to dancing partner Joe Sugg'- Soft news 4. Will May survive until the Budget? PM faces the toughest week after 'capitalization' in Brussels amid claims David Davis could be installed in Downing Street- Hard news 5. Trump promises 'severe' punishment for the Saudis if it turns out they murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi- who the president says 'certainly looks' to be dead- Hard news 2) What celebrity content is featured? There is a multitude of ...

1) What are the front page stories on the 21 September edition of the Daily Mail? Theresa May headline  This article centres around the struggles that Theresa May has confronted while attempted to make a gainful dead for the UK as we proceed with arrangements to leave the EU. The attention on Theresa May's activities as the primary feature of the Daily Mail which features how it is political, they are appeared to help the head administrator and help her progress out of the EU. This cover story focuses on Megan Markle and her mother visiting the Grenfell to help people. This conveys the support that the Daily Mail has with the Royal family. This indicates some soft news as it talks about the high class and their affairs but in particular the royal family. There is hard and soft news that is on the front cover of this article which shows that the Daily Mail is trying to attract both types of audiences so that they could maximize sales and appeal to a wider audience.   2) From...

1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson: Consequence - Effects on individuals or community Prominence - The well-known or famous Novelty - The unusual or emotional Conflict - Tension or surprise Progress - Triumph or achievement Disaster - Defeat or destruction 2) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? The story they used was "British servicewomen died after afghan bomb blast". it is quite negative and local and therefore it may attract an audience. 3) What is gatekeeping? Gatekeeping is filtering information prior to dissemination. This process is usually done via the editor, but the gatekeeping process could be seen to be more than simply an editor choosing one story over another. 4) What are the six ways bias can be created in news? Bias...

1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? At the highest point of this companies time it had 130 journalists employed to write their papers, whereas this is very different today due to the increase in news online. keith predicts that in 10 years that journalism will become exclusively weekly as news gets uploaded straight away and lots of people report news independently to help people become aware of problems.  2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? Perch believes that because this scandal of the phone hacking was mainstream, it was not dealt with properly as it lead to many journalists/companies getting away with it but a few getting caught and shut down like news of the world. He vouches that there should have been more legal action upon this situation to all the newspapers involved in this or these types of scandals. 3) What d...

1) What has happened to print media in the last 30 years? the last 30 years print media had been a  successful industry, however  due to technology becoming advanced such as  TV  and the  internet,  the print media has had a  drastic decline  in its  value and sales . 2) Why is the  Independent  newspaper such a good case study for the decline in print media? The independent is one of the latest newspapers to the  fall in print industry , therefore there is a clear and viable piece of evidence that displays the death of print media with the independent only being the i now a newspaper that was at the time considered a back up or  substitute  but has now taken centre stage due to people not being interested in broadsheet newspapers. 3) What was the  Independent  newspaper famous for? This newspapers was "free from political bias, free from proprietorial influence" which made it stand out from the typical...

1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? Shirky contends that "responsibility news coverage" is so critical on the grounds that they had promotion upheld daily papers delivering responsibility news-casting. first thing to perceive about the business structures of the daily paper industry is that it isn't sufficient for daily papers to keep running at a benefit to turn around the present danger and change. The model that he gives is the tale about the Boston globe distributed a two-section arrangement on the up and coming preliminary of Father John Geoghan.  2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? Shirky says that the connection among daily papers and publicists is awful. The second normal for the upbeat condition of the ...

The stories that feature the front of the i paper are The Salzburg disaster that is also featured on the daily mail cover for the day but the i paper also features news stories such as some media based topics such as Emma Stone's new show Maniac, M.I.A the artist who has a voice to be heard and Christine and the Queens a French pop band who are breaking through to stardom with their new album release. There is also an editorial feature from Patrick Cockburn- on the future of Iraq. Other stories feature a study on what happens to an octopus that takes ecstasy, A Croydon cat killer being revealed and a small sports feature on Arsenal's Aubameyang with a double win.   2) From your analysis in class, what other stories and topics are covered in this edition of the i? You should address the following pages: In pages 2 and 3, It shows the cars which can lower your insurance costs which will be benefic...