Shania Media 1 - Mr Halsey

Read  Media Factsheet 76: News Values  and complete the following questions/tasks. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets 1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson: Conflict - Tension or surprise Progress - Triumph or achievement Disaster - Defeat or destruction Consequence - Effects on individuals or community Prominence - The well-known or famous Novelty - The unusual or emotional 2) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? The story they used was "British servicewomen died after afghan bomb blast". it is quite negative and local and therefore it may attract an audience. 3) What is gatekeeping? Gatekeeping is the process of filtering information prior to dissem...

Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? He employed 130 journalists at one point.  Perch thinks that if it is still in print, it will  be weekly, extremely expensive, and have a very  small circulation; if it is online only – the likeliest  outcome – it will be unlikely to make money,  and so would employ as few as five or six staff.   2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? He thought that the biggest single issue is that something  illegal was going on which obviously should not have been, and which  wasn’t dealt with by the police.  Far too  many newspapers...

Go to the  Nieman Lab webpage (part of Harvard university) and watch the video of Clay Shirky presenting to Harvard students . The video is also available on YouTube below but the Nieman Lab website has a written transcript of everything Shiky says.  You need to watch from the beginning to 29.35 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? He said it was important because because it would be easier to to get news out as if these journalists were not reliable, a lot of important news would not be distributed. 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.) He said that there is not a good relation ship as the newspapers were charging too much to advertise there products and services. 3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This...

Blog task 1: The impact of Google Read  this article looking at the impact Google has had on the traditional newspaper business . Answer the following questions: 1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry? Because it is now more convenient to access soft and hard news through the use of google,  they attracted a lot of customers that wanted to advertise on their search engine which led to media businesses siphoning billions in advertising revenue over the past decade or so. 2) Find a statistic from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media. Newspaper businesses had a decline of $40 billion, or about 60 percent of the ad revenue in 2000  3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?  2005 - 20012 as this is was close to when the internet was introduced. 4) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers ...

Complete the blog tasks below linked to the useful Media Factsheet 165: The death of print media. The death of print media: Factsheet blog tasks   Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 165: The death of print media. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets   Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) What has happened to print media in the last 30 years? Until last 30 years, print media was one of the main sources of information for audiences. The desire for information is not a new one. Since the first newspapers in 1660s, and the relaxing of British censorship laws in 1695, printed newspapers have been a primary source of this information. 2) Why is the Independent newspaper such a good case study for the decline in print media? This is because it has recently 'died', and also it was established in 1986, long after the decline in ...

Blog task 2: Ofcom report into news consumption 2018 Now read  this Ofcom 2018 report on the consumption of news in the UK . Note down the key statistics and changes that Ofcom highlight and answer the following questions: 1) Look at the key findings from the report on page 2. How do UK adults generally get their news?  TV is the most-used platform for news nowadays by UK adults (79%), followed by the internet (64%), radio (44%) and newspapers (40%). 2) Read the overall summary on page 8. How popular are newspapers as a news source? How does this compare to other news sources? Newspapers are the least popular source of information for adults in general where as TV and internet are the most popular. BBC One is the leading source of news in the UK where 62% of the adults use it. However, those aged 65+ read newspapers more but do not use the internet for their news. 3) Look at the summary of platforms used on page 13. What audience demographic groups are most and least likely t...

Blog task 1: The impact of Google Read  this article looking at the impact Google has had on the traditional newspaper business . Answer the following questions: 1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry? Because it is now more convenient to access soft and hard news through the use of google,  they attracted a lot of customers that wanted to advertise on their search engine which led to media businesses siphoning billions in advertising revenue over the past decade or so. 2) Find a statistic from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media. Newspaper businesses had a decline of $40 billion, or about 60 percent of the ad revenue in 2000  3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?  2005 - 20012 as this is was close to when the internet was introduced. 4) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers...