News

 L/O To explore the history of the news industry and the genres of newspapers. 

1.  audience, representation, editing, industry

2. Costume, Action, Hair and make up, representation

3. Connotation - rose represents love

What is the purpose of news - information, educate, profit, persuade 

In the 50s and 60s, newspaper circulation has gone down. 

Bigger writing, More easy to read, aimed at average people, 

Tabloid:

Informal language

                                                                                 09/01/23

Do Now

1 Educate, inform,persuade, entertain

2 Newspapers

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Ownership of news

LO: To explore the nature and ownership of the news industry 

3 types of ownership models

"Media Barons" owned by wealthy individuals or proprietors E.G Rupert Murdoch 

Trusts - a legal arrangement that transfers funds from the owner to a trustee to manage and control the running of paper  

main aim is to make profit

77.8% owned by billionaires, 27.3% owned by Rothermere, 24.9% owned by Rupert Murdoch 

 

Daily mail own the mail in the UK

 

20/02/24 

- Advantages, Has to be sold, More profit, 

- Disadvantages, costs money to make, Not that accessible, Older people may prefer these  

Media language

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

Masthead 'The observer' Black font on a white background. Capitol T + O. rest lowercase. Serif type, same as print.

 Navigation bar - Blue background, white text, Which is the same as the guardian

Stand first- 

Byline - The journalists names

Headline - Black serif writing, The headline creates sympathy, does this by using words like 'pleads'

Subheading - Small black serif 

Political Bias; liberal progressive, equal

Owned by GmG

Representations

World Wild News - rep of cultures, underdogs reported

Do now

1960s

Lack of gender equality 

Cold war: 

the state of hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers from 1945 to 1990.

Vietnam war - protests to stop the war 

A lot of social change 

Patriarchy in place

Labour party go

26/03/24

1. Main image, Masthead, Byline, celebrity news/gossip/soft news

2.Main image, Red and white Masthead, Headlines

3.Tabloid

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Genre = type/ type=tabloid or broadsheet 

The media language used in the Observer cover reflects the genre conventions of a broadsheet newspaper

-masthead- big bald, black on white, serif

-text to image ratio- 

-image- a mid shot, Rishi Sunak + American politician, Staged image press conference shaking hands 

-colour

The media language used in the Observer reflects genre conventions by using different media language techniques. The masthead is Black, bold and serif, this represents a sophisticated and formal feel about the newspaper, this also shows it is a tabloid. The observer being a tabloid is