Antonia's A-level Media Blog

  Daily Mail and Mail Online analysis  Use your own purchased copy or  our scanned copy of the Brexit edition from January 2020  plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine. 1) What are the most significant front page headlines seen in the Daily Mail in recent years? "A new dawn for Britain" "Many loved ones will die" - Boris Johnson and COVID "Duty means everything" - Royal Family when Meghan and Harry left 2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Daily Mail? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? The idea that we are 'finally' free now that we've left the EU It is written in a positive light which positions the audience to act in a celebratory positive way 3) How do the Daily Mail stories you have studied reflect British culture and society? They are about British politics such as Brexit, the Royal Family, and the Prime ministers Now  vi...

  Part 1: Clay Shirky lecture Go to the  Nieman Lab webpage (part of Harvard university) and watch the video of Clay Shirky presenting to Harvard students . The video is also available on YouTube below but the Nieman Lab website has a written transcript of everything Shirky says.  Play the clip AND read along with the transcript below to ensure you are following the argument. You need to watch from the beginning to 29.35 (the end of Shirky's presentation). Once you've watched and read the presentation and made notes (you may want to copy and paste key quotes from the transcript which is absolutely fine), answer the questions below: 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? It holds powerful institutions to account and keeps the public informed 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generat...

  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...

  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...