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News paper regulation

  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? 130  If it is still print, it will will be weekly, expensive and very small circulation 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? Views it as really bad but through reactions were disproportionate and that regulation isn't the answer. 3) What does IPSO stand for and how does it work? Independent Press Standards Organisation A newspaper has 28 days to deal with a complaint. If it hasn’t been resolved, the complainant can then take it to the IPSO Complaints Committee, which will decide if the Editor’s Code of Practice has been broken. If it has, the Committee can...
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News paper news story research

  Create  ONE  blogpost that you return to and update weekly. Call it ' Newspaper news story research '. Then, each week you need to visit the  MailOnline website  and the  Guardian website  and choose one story from each to summarise and share.  Most importantly, you need to do the following on your blogpost for each story... Copy the  headline, date  and  link . Briefly summarise  the story in a sentence or two: is  this is an example of  hard news  or  soft news?  Does it reflect the  politics  or  ideological stance  of that newspaper/website? Explain in a sentence how or why this story  appeals to the audience of that newspaper  (use media terminology and theory if you can). Is it  quality journalism  or an example of  clickbait ? We'll be sharing our stories as a starter each week and this will ensure you build up a range of stories from both CSPs to pr...
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News Values

  Read  Media Factsheet 76: News Values  and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our  Media Factsheet archive is available here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 1) 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? An earthquake in San Fransisco kills two hundred people It is a good example because it represents majority of the news values such as surprise and balance. 2) What is gatekeeping? The process of filtering information prior to dissemination. 3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news? Selection and omission Placement Headline Photos, captions, camera angles Names and Titles Choice of words 4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published? They offers a way for  audiences to access news stories that may have been mediate...
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Decline in print media

  Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption Read  this Ofcom report on the consumption of news in the UK  and answer the following questions (bullet points/short answers are fine): 1) Look at the headlines from the report on page 5 & 6. Pick three that you think are interesting and bullet point them here. Why did you pick those three in particular?   Six in ten UK adults claim to use some form of online intermediary (social media, search engine or news aggregator) for their news. Meta (39%) and Google (34%) services are the most commonly used intermediaries While the BBC, across its own services on TV, radio and online, has the highest reach of any news provider, reaching 39% of this age group, TikTok (31%), YouTube (30%), Instagram (24%) and Facebook (21%) are the most-used individual access points for news. These services host news from other providers which may include established news brands such as the BBC. TV and newspapers are used more by older peop...
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Paper 2 mock learner response

  1) Type up your   feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). WWW: Good knowledge on question 2 EBI: Mention other media texts for synoptic question 2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your  target grade  for A-Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2? These are the grade boundaries we've used (out of 84):  A* = 71; A = 62, B = 52; C = 43; D = 33; E = 24 Now read through the real AQA mark scheme for Paper 2 and the examiner's report (see your Media teacher's Google Classroom for both of these documents). 3) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from your the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme. 1) 6/9 I should have explained more clearly linking to unseen 2) 20/25 don't speak...
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Video games index

  1)  Videogames: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture 2) Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Language & Representation 3)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Audience & Industries 4)  Learner response: OSP assessment 5)  Videogames: Women in videogames &  Further feminist theory 6)  Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Language & Representations 7)  Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Audience & Industries
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Horizon Forbidden West: Audience and Industry

 Create a blogpost called 'Horizon Forbidden West: Audience and Industry' and work through the following tasks. Audience Look at  this YouGov blog on the console gaming audience  and answer the following questions: 1) What statistics can you find for the number of male / female players for the major consoles?   PlayStation 5 (68% male; 29% female) and Xbox Series X|S (68% vs. 32%) have the highest proportion of male compared to female gamers. 2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West?  Casual gamers play games as a pass time whi9lst hard core gamers invest and make games their number one priority. 3) What are the different reasons YouGov researched for why players play games? Which of these would apply to Horizon Forbidden West? Relaxing/ wind down time making a world of their own Interact with other gamers Look at  the PlayStation website page for Horizon Forbidden West ...
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