The Times - Industry

Question 1

Who produces The Times?

Answer 1

News UK

Question 2

Who owns News UK?

Answer 2

NewsCorp

Question 3

How is The Times financed?

Answer 3

Adverts
Subscriptions
Physical and Digital Sales

Question 4

Who owns NewsCorp?

Answer 4

Rupert Murdoch

Question 5

How does the ownership of The Times influence their product?

Answer 5

Rupert Murdoch
- Owns a Right Wing Conglomerate
- Often filters his own views into his newspapers
- Have more money to produce higher quality content and advertising (e.g. paper ink, journalists)

Question 6

How does Curren and Seaton’s Power and Media Theory apply to The Times?

Answer 6

Conforms …
- The Times is a part of a large conglomerate (may limit journalist’s freedom)
- Horizontally and Vertically integrated so can afford to produce higher quality products that will produce a large profit (driven by the logic of profit and power)
- Rupert Murdoch (patterns of ownership) heavily influences his newspapers not allowing them to have more varied or adventurous opinions
- Pay-walled subscription based website that still features adverts (profit and power) (can afford to take this risk of potentially losing readers)
- Can share resources between their other companies to reduce cost and spending of resources
- Global conglomerate = has a lot of power and influence (profit and power)

Question 7

Provide information on Rupert Murdoch

Answer 7

• Chief executive of NewsCorp
• Billionaire
• Very Conservative and a Republican Party donor (Donald Trump)
• His political views are often reflected in his papers (however NewsCorp claim to be politically neutral)

Question 8

What effect did the Phone Hacking Scandal have?

Answer 8

• Caused a huge amount of bad publicity for NewsCorp
• Began to damage the stockmarket and shares of the company
• Shut down The News Of The World paper to protect their reputation and worth of their other newspapers