News

6/3/20

What is News

L/O: To explore the nature and ownership of the news industry.

1) We all took part in it, we managed to influence and take part in it as people, through talking about certain things.
2) Journalism, people seeking news. through this it was easy to sell news as it would be targeted. the invention of the printing press allowed them to mass produce papers and share the news worldwide. The invention of the telegram also allowed journalists to get information from countries quickly and easily
3) As it means we can't be influenced as easily, we can talk about things with people, and share our opinions. However, it is also sometimes toxic, with one sided/biased stories. The gap between the two parties (right and left wing).


Newspapers are not PSB (like the BBC) they are commercial publications. Over 3 quarters (77.8%_ of the British press is owned by a handful of billionaires. Over a quarter (27.3%) of the press is owned by Lord Rothermore and 24.9%is by Rupert Mordoch- between them these two men have over 50% of the printed press. Newspapers and their online publications (example of synergy/convergence) are not legally obliged to provide an un-bias public information service. there are ethical and moral codes of press conduct but the printed press is self regulatory industry.

In the UK, there are 3 ownership models:
'Media Barons' - owned by wealthy rich men/women.
'Trusts' - a legal arrangement and funds from the owner is transferred to the trustees. the trustee controls and regulates the paper, not the owner, making it a lot less un-bias.
Cross media converged conglomerates - global institutions that own numerous media outlets,=. these may be owned by Media Barons.




1) News is a way to inform, educate and persuade people by reading new stories to express opinions on certain topics and to grab peoples attention as to whats going on in the world around them. 

2) The disadvantages of news being a commercial industry is there are not external people looking over the newspaper before it gets published this means that commercially owned newspapers can publish whatever that want to some extent to make a profit

3) The advantages are there is more competition, and therefore the quality gets better as people want to read good quality news. 

4) Biased and non accurate

5) They have a lot of power to do what they want.

6) its important as we know who owns it, and so we know if they're a trusty person, and we can find out if they're left or right wing.

13/3/20

Newspaper, ownership, funding and regulation. 

L/O: To explore the impact of newspaper ownership, funding and regulation on the printed press. 

Tabloid newspapers - The star, The Sun, The Mirror

Hybrid - Daily Mail, Express

Broadsheet - The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The independent