Newspaper points and information

Different Perspectives

What do you notice about the difference in content and how the articles convey this information? Why do you think that is?

The Daily Mirror goes into a lot more graphic detail when explaining the event and what happened. The Times on the other hand missed out a lot of information eg. how it happened, unlike the Daily Mirror, who explained the actions in full. This is because The Daily Mirror is a tabloid and its audience likes to read more dramatic news, "if it bleeds, it leads"

Guardian Newspaper article analysis

This is an analysis of an article from the Guardian Newspaper on the 13/11/17

Newspaper Terminology

Galtung and Ruge

Gatekeeping:

A term which is applied to the editing and filtering process where decisions are made to let some information 'pass through' to the receiver (audience) and other information remains barred.

News Values:

Galtung and Ruge

-1965 analysed international news stories to find out what kind of stories came top of the news 'agenda'.
- Their findings helped them create a list of 'News Values':

• Threshold: the bigger the impact and reach of the story
• Unexpectedness: an event that is a shock or out of the ordinary
• Negativity: Bad news is more interesting 'if it bleeds, it leads'
• Elite person/places: stories about important people and powerful nations
• Unambiguous: straightforward and easy to write about
• Personalisation: stories that include human interest- 'real' people
• Proximity: stories that are closer to home are more likely to be included
• Continuity/Currency: stories that are already in the news continue to run and are updated.

Newspaper types

Broadsheets:

- Quality or Serious press
- Large Title
- One large picture
- What's inside ( quick review)
- Lots of text
- Multiple headlines (serious)
- Politics
- Lacking in colour
- Amount of text caters to older audience
- Sophisticated articles
- A/B/C1 demographics

Tabloids:

- Popular press
- Lots of colour
- More reality based (popular culture)
- Minimal text
- No long article on the front page
- Less in-depth reporting
- Puns and jokes used in headlines
- More focus on human interest stories, celebrity gossip
- Use of gimmicks e.g. bingo games, free travel tickets, phone-in surveys
- C2/D/E demographics

The Market

The Market

Popular:

The Sun
The Sun on Sunday
Daily Mirror
Sunday Mirror
Sunday People
Daily Star
Daily Star Sunday

Mid-Market: 

Daily Mail
The Mail
London Evening Standard
Metro
Sunday Express
Daily Express

Quality:

The Daily Telegraph
The Sunday Telegraph
The Guardian
The Observer
The Times
The Sunday Times
The Independent
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Financial Times