News
What is news? Friday 6th March 2020
L/O: To Critically evaluate the nature of news and news sources
What is the purpose of News?
- To Inform
- To Educate
- To Entertain
- To Influence and persuade
- Profit
Fake News:
1. What is fake news? Fake news is a form of news where false information is deliberatley made up.
2. How can you spot/check fake news? One way of checking for fake news is to compare the story to other news outlets and see if the facts and figures are the same across several news outlets.
3. Why is there more fake news now than 30 years ago? Because of the rise of the internet anybody can make up a fake news story and publish it to make it seem real, fooling the public and news outlets alike.
4. 3 examples of Fake News:
What is News Now?
1. Stephens says 'the news was not a spectator sport' by this he means the public and interact and talk about the news and even use the news as a way to socialise meaning everyone is talking and involved in the news.
2. 150 years ago the invention of steampress (printing press) and the development of the telegraph made it possible to make a business and income from the news.
3. Through the internet people can see worldwide events and headlines, Stephens describes this as a 'mostly wonderful thing'. I agree, it is wonderful that people can be informed and educated on news stories and headlines, however people can create fake news stories and fool or scare the public if they do not do their research.
1. News is a way to inform and educate the public on local, national and worldwide occurrences.
2. The disadvantages of commercially owned news is that is only purpose is to make money, and there is also no regulation on bias opinions, when it comes to things like politics.
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5. The advantages of being a self regulatory news outlet is that your news is respected and is seen as a trusted source due to the fact you cannot present bias opinions.
- Sales - (Circulation)
- Advertisement - Print and Online
- Subscriptions/Memberships
- Sponsorship
- Donations
- Events and other sales
Tabloid Newspapers - A tabloid is a newspaper that has a soft news agenda, small pages, short articles, and lots of photographs.Less formal language, they target a working class audiences. Tabloids are often considered to be less serious than Broadsheet Newspapers. Tabloids offer news as entertainment.
Tabloid Examples - Daily star, Daily Mirror and The sun
Broadsheet Newspapers - A broadsheet is a newspaper that has a hard news agenda. A broadsheet newspaper is printed on large sheets of paper, uses more formal language and targets a more upmarket audience. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Broadsheets offer news as information.
Broadsheet examples - The daily telegraph, the independent and the guardian.
Hybrid - A mixture of them both.
Hybrid examples - Daily mail and the Daily express
Q1) Tabloid Newspapers have a soft news agenda meaning that they use less formal language and use the news to entertain their audience. Whereas Broadsheet Newspapers have a hard news agenda, meaning that they use formal language and register to target an upmarket audience, they use the news to inform their audience.
Q2) The Observers in the 1960s was a Broadsheet Newspaper, it was printed on a broadsheet format, used formal language and register and included many more stories and articles as oppose to headlines and photos.
Q3) In 2018 the observer Changed from a broadsheet format to a compact 'tabloid' format, It is still a broadsheet Newspaper however has adopted a format linked with tabloids to save cost.
Newspaper outlets are normally owned by one of three types of owner:
1. Media Barons (e.g. Rupert Murdoch)
2. Media conglomerate
3. Trusts - less influence from owner, usually neutral and unbiased
The Observer is owned by a Trust.
How does Media ownership contribute to a news bias?
- Commercial advertising ties
- Political opinion of owner
- Business interests of owner/friends
- Profit:
Newspapers are not PSB - News is not 'non fiction' it is stories designed to sell.
- To Inform
- To Educate
- To Entertain
- To Influence and persuade
- Profit
Fake News:
1. What is fake news? Fake news is a form of news where false information is deliberatley made up.
2. How can you spot/check fake news? One way of checking for fake news is to compare the story to other news outlets and see if the facts and figures are the same across several news outlets.
3. Why is there more fake news now than 30 years ago? Because of the rise of the internet anybody can make up a fake news story and publish it to make it seem real, fooling the public and news outlets alike.
4. 3 examples of Fake News:
What is News Now?
1. Stephens says 'the news was not a spectator sport' by this he means the public and interact and talk about the news and even use the news as a way to socialise meaning everyone is talking and involved in the news.
2. 150 years ago the invention of steampress (printing press) and the development of the telegraph made it possible to make a business and income from the news.
3. Through the internet people can see worldwide events and headlines, Stephens describes this as a 'mostly wonderful thing'. I agree, it is wonderful that people can be informed and educated on news stories and headlines, however people can create fake news stories and fool or scare the public if they do not do their research.
1. News is a way to inform and educate the public on local, national and worldwide occurrences.
2. The disadvantages of commercially owned news is that is only purpose is to make money, and there is also no regulation on bias opinions, when it comes to things like politics.
3.
4.
5. The advantages of being a self regulatory news outlet is that your news is respected and is seen as a trusted source due to the fact you cannot present bias opinions.
Newspaper Ownership, Funding and Regulation Friday 13th March 2020
L/O: To explore the impact of newspaper ownership, funding and regulation on the printed press
How do newspapers make money?- Sales - (Circulation)
- Advertisement - Print and Online
- Subscriptions/Memberships
- Sponsorship
- Donations
- Events and other sales
Tabloid Newspapers - A tabloid is a newspaper that has a soft news agenda, small pages, short articles, and lots of photographs.Less formal language, they target a working class audiences. Tabloids are often considered to be less serious than Broadsheet Newspapers. Tabloids offer news as entertainment.
Tabloid Examples - Daily star, Daily Mirror and The sun
Broadsheet Newspapers - A broadsheet is a newspaper that has a hard news agenda. A broadsheet newspaper is printed on large sheets of paper, uses more formal language and targets a more upmarket audience. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Broadsheets offer news as information.
Broadsheet examples - The daily telegraph, the independent and the guardian.
Hybrid - A mixture of them both.
Hybrid examples - Daily mail and the Daily express
Q1) Tabloid Newspapers have a soft news agenda meaning that they use less formal language and use the news to entertain their audience. Whereas Broadsheet Newspapers have a hard news agenda, meaning that they use formal language and register to target an upmarket audience, they use the news to inform their audience.
Q2) The Observers in the 1960s was a Broadsheet Newspaper, it was printed on a broadsheet format, used formal language and register and included many more stories and articles as oppose to headlines and photos.
Q3) In 2018 the observer Changed from a broadsheet format to a compact 'tabloid' format, It is still a broadsheet Newspaper however has adopted a format linked with tabloids to save cost.
Newspaper outlets are normally owned by one of three types of owner:
1. Media Barons (e.g. Rupert Murdoch)
2. Media conglomerate
3. Trusts - less influence from owner, usually neutral and unbiased
The Observer is owned by a Trust.
How does Media ownership contribute to a news bias?
- Commercial advertising ties
- Political opinion of owner
- Business interests of owner/friends
- Profit:
Newspapers are not PSB - News is not 'non fiction' it is stories designed to sell.
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