News and Online Flashcards
what is the order of the socio-economic classes and what type of paper they read
- ABC1: reads quality papers
- C1/C2: reads mid market papers
- Mass Market: tabloids
where do the Guardian and Daily mail fall on the LW-RW, Quality-Tabloid axis
- The Guardian: a left wing, quality paper
- The Daily Mail: a right wing, mid market paper
who owns the Guardian
- The Scott Trust - they’re not for profit
what are the conventions of the newspaper market segment of Quality
- Quality: detailed level of info, high level lexis (complex vocab), body text heavy, hard + international news focus, limited colour palette, iconic photography, ordered layout
what are the conventions of the newspaper market segment of mid market
- Mid Market: offers information on worries, dramatic lexis (vocab), large, dramatized serifed headlines, meaningful use of colour, ordered layout
what are the conventions of the newspaper market segment of Tabloid
- Tabloid: raises dramatic enigmas, low level lexis/ use of colloquial language, soft + celebrity news focus, domestic news focus, cluttered layout, composited images, use of paparazzi/phone pictures, image heavy
what factors add value to news
- negativity: e.g. tragedies, deaths, murders
- closeness to home
- recency
- simplicity (how simple it is to understand)
- unexpected
- elite nations: based in USA, UK, France, China
- exclusivity from newspaper
what is the motto of the Scott Trust
- ‘to preserve quality liberal journalism’
who owns the Daily Mail
- Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) - for profit and is owned by Lord Rothemere
- it also owns The Metro, The i
outline the 6 stages of cultural (and so economic) changes of print
1) competition from online news
2) decrease in readership + circulation of printed news
3) with less readers, the value of display advertising declines
4) with less advertisements, theres less revenue (money in), and so less profit
5) with less profit, theres cost reductions - shown in less staff, smaller page format + count
6) with less news room staff, more opinion pieces, ‘churnalism’ (copying other work), less foreign news, less quality / exclusive pieces, source journalism (sourced form a centralised news agency), client journalism (clients calling up journalists to report on their story)
name 5 cultural changes for online news
- paywalls (restriction of content access due to needing a subscription) for Quality papers
- competition from other online news outlets
- social media acts as a news source - which is more likely to be used (headline scrolling)
- Facebook + Google dominate 65% of the digital advertising market
- (younger) audiences have an ‘expectation of free’ - they don’t want to pay for news subscriptions. e.g. to make money, traffic, page impressions, the Mail Online appeals to a global audience
state a statistic about falling readership/ circulation of print news
- since 2009, the number of newspapers sold each day in the UK has dropped form 9 million to 3 million
- in the last decade, the UK national paper advertising market has halved, from £1.2B in 2013 to £600 million in 2023
- newspaper readership is falling about 10% each year
suggest (at least) 3 reasons for the decline in newspaper readership
- ageing audience (avg age of print readers is 61yrs)
- declining circulation
- expectation of free
- online news is more accessible
define stereotype
- stereotype = a simplified, general negative representation of a social group
define archetype
- archetype = positive repeated representations