funding and ownership Flashcards
(24 cards)
What is the most substantial social context to affect the print media in the last 30 years?
-most of printed media is online now rather than physical copies
Who owns the Daily Mail?
-Lord/Viscount Rothermere
Who owns the Guardian?
Scott Trust
What are the possible dangers of a concentration of media ownership?
-Leads to a few people controlling all of the news media and having a lot of power->gatekeeping theory
Who’s Rupert Murdoch?
-one of the most famous newspapers owners (The Sun and The News of The World) who now owns News Corp and 21st Century Fox
-Rupert Murdoch controls what we see and read from the papers and can make something better for himself and not everyone else (eg brexit with Boris)
Which three companies control 90% of the UK’s national newspaper market?
DMG Media, News UK and Reach
Which publications does DMG group own and which is it trying to acquire?
Metro, The Daily Mail and the News UK’s The Sun and trying to acquire the Telegraph Media Group
What do the Media Reform Coalition say is “essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy?”
a free and independent media
What is OFCOM?
A communications regulator->regulate media complaints
NewsCorp and DMG are responsible for 24% and 23% of what?
Market shares by revenue
What do Reach and Newquest own?
Reach->local news outlets, Newquest->local papers
According to Ipsos and Ofcom, 64% of the UK public use what, to access their news?
‘online intermediaries’ (through another platform like Instagram)
What % of the UK population use a Meta platform to access the news?
63%
Why are page views down 21% year-on-year for the first nine months of 2023?
Reduce the visibility of news on facebook
How much control do Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp uk and Lord Lothermere’s daily mail group have over national newspaper circulation?
60%
What is the news agenda?
Determining the importance of news stories and deciding what news to print and what stories are important
What happens in the gatekeeping process?
Information is filtered and altered to incite a different reaction
Explain how new technology has changed the news agenda
It changes the way journalists do their job and the structure and organisation of newsrooms
What is media bias?
When newspapers are seen to favour the stories everyone is reporting
What is the Daily Mail geared towards?
profit making
What is the Guardian geared towards?
-integrity and quality journalism
How are newspapers funded traditionally?
-traditionally print newspapers rely on the circulation price and advertising to generate income
Why are broadsheets more attracted to advertisers? What is a result of this?
-because of the wealthy upmarket readerships->they have a smaller circulation and a higher cover price with larger adverts to generate income
What are other sources of funding besides circulation?
-online advertising (page views)
-paywalls
-donations and subscriptions
-sponsored content
-events
-product sales
