News

 Soft news- tabloids - gossip/scandal

Hard news- broadsheets- informative

newspapers - primitive  compared to modern 24/7 news channels/radio/social media etc

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW FOR EXAMS-

-The diff types of newspapers

-Who owns newspapers in the UK 

-How news industry changed over 20 years

-How newspaper covers are constructed and why

-Which media theories are relevant to the news industry

Cheapest newspaper is the metro which is free however is plastered with ads

Financial times is most expensive at £3.50

Tabloid features- soft news - higher photo to copy ratio - more celebrities - C2DE demographic - cheaper - use of puns

Broadsheet - hard news - lower photo to copy ratio - more ABC1 demographic -statistics comments - politicians

Newspapers in general are in a large general decline - 19 million and now 7 million sold daily in the UK

Industry-

DMGT - The Daily Mail General Trust - Viscount Rothmere. Owns the Daily Mail, Metro and the I

News Corp - Rupert Murdoch owns the Sun, Telegraph and the Sunday Times

Reach PLC - Mirror, The people and The Daily Record

Scott Trust - Guardian and The Observer

4 Main reasons Why People Access Media - Bulmer and Katz-

-Diversion

-Personal Relationships

-Identity

-Information

Many people enjoy reading news for dramatic/exceptional stories. - 'if it bleeds it reads' - negative news sells 6x more than positive news