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Newspaper: Set texts Flashcards

1
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What year was the iPhone and YouTube released?

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2007

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2
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Circulation

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The number of copies distributed

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Readership

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How many people read paper

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How much is readership circulation declining each year?

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10%

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5
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3 reasons for decline in readership circulation?

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-Old people dying
-Expectation of free news
- Social media

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What is the order of the socio-economic classes and what type of paper do they read

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ABC1 = reads quality papers
C1/C2 = reads mid-market papers
Mass market = Tabloids

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7
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What is the Guardian Media Group

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One of Uk’s leading media organisations, their core business is Guardian News & Media.

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Who owns the guardian?

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The Scott Trust - established in 1936 as a trust and exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of the guardian. All GMG’s profits are reinvested to support the trusts core purpose.

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Guardian motto

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” to preserve quality, liberal journalism for all”

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Who runs Guardian Media Group

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GMG has a board of directors which reports to the board of the Scott trust

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Guardian business model -online

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-Non - profit organisation
-3rd way membership model - Plea (their affluent readers) to call to action and support the guardian - (all access content at the price of £10)
-Advertisements

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How many Guardian subscribers

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1.2 million world-wide
2/3 or readers subscribe

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Price of Guardian newspaper cover page

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approx. £17,000

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3 impacts of less newsroom staff

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-less investigative journalism
-‘churnalim’
-international news not covered

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15
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Guardian journalistic staff

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50% less than 2005

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Who owns the brand daily mail?

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Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) - Lord Rothermere owner and chairman

17
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Daily Mail aim/ business model?

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Make money, Advertising, For-Profit Organisation

18
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Daily mail circulation

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£3.3 million

19
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Daily Mail social media followers

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22 million

20
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Daily mail price of cover page

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£30,000

21
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Price of the daily mail newspaper

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£1.10

22
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Price of the guardian newspaper

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£3.00

23
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Conventions of a quality newspaper

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Hard news agenda, national and international, body text heavy, iconic photography

24
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Conventions of a mid-market news paper

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Dramatic, sensationalist news, Uk centric foreign news, Opinion pieces, Churnalism, Pro-Tory

25
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Mail Online business model

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-Website - mainly can make money through roadblock advertisement
-Partial paywall - charges for some content (e.g. royal family, special investigations, health, personal finance and columnists) - £4.99
-Sharable content + clickbait headlines

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State statistics about falling readership/ circulation of print news

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-Since 2009, number of national newspapers sold each day in the UK has dropped from 9 million to 3 million
-last decade, UK national paper advertising market has halved: 2013 = £1.2B, 2030 = £600 million
-newspaper readership is falling about 10% per year

27
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Define Stereotype

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Stereotype = a simplified, general negative representation of a social group

28
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define archetype

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archetype = positive repeated representations

29
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define countertype

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countertype = a representation that deliberately subverts expectations of a stereotype

30
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Outline IPSO

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A voluntarily regulation board
-Controlled and funded by ex right wing editors
-Biased; never fined any of its papers for breach of code
-Fig - leaf = regulator
-Lets press get away with prominent apologies

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Guardians stance of regulatory bodies

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-Refuses to sign upto IPSO or IMPRESS
-doesn’t want to legitimise IPSO and RW panel + funding model
-the Guardian is self-regulating and has its own internal complaints handling procedure
-the quality of journalism is very high with 2 verifiable sources

32
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outline the 2012 Levenson enquiry

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in the early 2000s to 2012, there was widespread phone hacking across the mid market + tabloid news industry
the Milly Dowler case: where a young murder victim’s phone had been hacked - led to the 2012 Leveson public enquiry into the standards and ethics of the press
a ‘royal charter’ was recomended to set the guidelines of how a new self-regulator should be set up. IPSO was set up for the RW press and the other regulator was ‘Impress’

33
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Outline the values of LW texts

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-Internationalist
-Socially inclusive
-Progressive
-Supports non-traditional beliefs
-Supports progressive gender roles
-Challenges capitalism

34
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Outline the values of RW texts

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-Nationalist
-Xenophobic
-Conservative
-Traditionalist
-Supports traditional gender roles
-Supports consumerism

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