The Daily Mirror: Mirror Online - Made for Audiences Flashcards
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Home Page
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- Bright, colourful and containing massive images (all linked to story when clicked on).
- Home page is scrolling list of the days most important stories, smaller stories
(pictures and headings) are either older or less important. - Menu system in operation along header (across all pages) offering simple alternatives (News, Politics, etc.) along with social media icons.
2
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‘Sell Your Story’ Page
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- Simple use of white space, clear branding of Daily Mirror and
Sunday version (Sunday Mirror). - Brief description of each with clear news-desk telephone numbers / e-mail adresses as contacts.
- Short & straight to the point giving potential contributing prosumers / rudimentary citizen journalists the basic information required.
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Celebrity Pages
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- Same layout as home page (large images, smaller headings - all linked to stories when clicked)
- Large emphasis on reality TV celebrities (TOWIE, Strictly Come
Dancing, I’m a Celebrity, etc.), - Sex & (partial) nudity.
4
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Sport Pages
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- All important stories tend to be fairly working class sports (boxing, football, UFC, WWE?),
- Pictures contain various ‘action shots’. - Also contains links to interviews with selected ‘sport’s personalities’.
- Further down the page there are a greater range of sports relating to a higher class (cricket, horse racing, etc.) and international sports (American football & basketball)