Newspapers, Section B

Question 1

What is the purpose of newspapers

Answer 1

To inform
To help voting decisions
Act as the fourth estate (to criticise and expose gov)
Make money/profit
Engines of social/political change
Sell audiences to advertisers
Bring their owners power/profit
To entertain

Question 2

How are newspapers funded?

Answer 2

Sponsored content
Advertisement
Subscriptions
Cover price

Question 3

Challenges facing newspapers financially

Answer 3

Young people
Energy and print costs
Audience engaging more with digital products
Lack of advertisers

Question 4

What is News corp?

Answer 4

A US conglomerate that owns News UK

Question 5

What does News UK own?

Answer 5

The Times
The Sunday times
The sun
The sun on Sunday
Wireless group: owns talksport, talk radio and virgin radio (licence from Richard Branson)

Question 6

What does Reach Plc own?

Answer 6

Owns 130+ brand including:
The mirror
The Sunday mirror
The express
The daily star
Sunday people

Question 7

What is a USP?

Answer 7

Unique selling point

Question 8

What is corporate synergy?

Answer 8

When corporations interact with one another

Question 9

What is digital convergence?

Answer 9

When you can access multiple media formats on one device

Question 10

What is the editors code?

Answer 10

Descriptions should only be used when it is relevant to the story

Question 11

Why is the editors code neccessary?

Answer 11

It helps to avoid the demonising or labelling of groups of reinforcing negative stereotyping

Question 12

What is impress?

Answer 12

The official recognised regulatory body

Question 13

How many newspapers are on this body?

Answer 13

200 because they follow all 92 of the recommendations made from the Levenson inquiry

Question 14

What is IPSO?

Answer 14

Another regulatory body, not official as it doesn’t follow all the recommendations

Question 15

Do newspapers have to join?

Answer 15

No it is optional

Question 16

Who subscribes to IPSO?

Answer 16

The Daily Mirror and The Times

Question 17

How do they become apart of one of these regulatory bodies?

Answer 17

They have to pay a fee

Question 18

If someone has a complaint where should they go first?

Answer 18

Newspaper

Question 19

Where do they go after that?

Answer 19

To the regulatory body

Question 20

What do the regulatory body do when they receive a complaint?

Answer 20

If they feel the code has broken they will ask the paper to deal with it or investigate the issue themselves

Question 21

What can the outcome be?

Answer 21

A complaint can either be upheld or the regulatory body will write to the complainant and say that no breach has been found

Question 22

Censorship vs Regulation

Answer 22

Fine line between the two
Regulation could be seen as taking away from freedom of speech

Question 23

Who is IPSO funded by and why might this be a problem?

Answer 23

Funded by the newspaper industry itself, which also sets the rules under which it operates

Question 24

What are some challenges when it comes to online regulation?

Answer 24

No parental blocks, anyone can access any content

Question 25

What is the problem of consistency?

Answer 25

A system with two regulatory bodies yet neither is compulsory

Question 26

What are some global issues?

Answer 26

Different countries have different regulatory practices and now that papers are global they can be read wherever and by whoever

Question 27

What is the fine if a paper breaches the rules?

Answer 27

£1 million

Question 28

How many fines have been made since the creation of the IPSO?

Answer 28

None

Question 29

Is Impress more reliable?

Answer 29

Yes they investigate a high proprotion of complaints than IPSO

Question 30

What is impress' focus?

Answer 30

Protecting vulnerable groups and ensuring responsible journalism

Question 31

How is IMPRESS perceived as more independent?

Answer 31

It is not funded by the industry

Question 32

What triggered the Levenson inquiry?

Answer 32

A 13 year old girl was murdered and her voicemails and texts were hacked and deleted

Question 33

What newspaper did this?

Answer 33

News of the world

Question 34

What would have happened it they had not done this?

Answer 34

There wouldn't have been enough evidence for porsecution

Question 35

What is the Leveson inquiry?

Answer 35

A review of the ethics and standards of the British press

Question 36

How long did the court case last for?

Answer 36

9 months

Question 37

How many people were called to give evidence?

Answer 37

300 people including David Cameron, Theresa May and Jk Rowling

Question 38

What did they find?

Answer 38

That the press wasn't protecting the citizens

Question 39

What did they do?

Answer 39

Come up with 92 different recommendations

Question 40

What were some of the recommendations

Answer 40

Newspapers need to be regulated by aboard of people, not connected to any newspaper

Question 41

What does "in the public interest" mean

Answer 41

If the newspaper deems something to be in the public interest then its okay to breach someones privacy and publish it