big issue

Big issue Founded in 1991 by John Bird and Gordon Ridick 

The magazine based in the UK and their stories have a huge focus on British

They launched The Big Issue to help combat poverty by creating an opportunity for homeless people to make money themselves giving them pride

Vendors buy a copy for £1.25 and then sell the magazine for £2.50 allowing them to make a profit 

200,00,00 copies have been sold since 1991       

Advertising accounts for 70% of magazine income

Small circulation is more dependent on advertising

newspaper evaluation

1) What was the task you were given and who was your target audience? 
 the task was to create a Daily Mail front cover and my target audience was the c2 and d demographic 

2 What research did you undertake and what did you find were some of the typical conventions of a Daily Mail front cover - layout, types of stories, fonts
 I looked at  Daily Mail front covers on Google to get an idea of what templates and layouts they use on their front pages.The image on the front page of the Daily Mail often does not have anything to do with the main story they are running. They also seem to always include some sort of competition on their front page as well as at least 2 stories and also have tight spaces on their head lines use a specific fonts

3.) 

4) Which areas did you find most challenging?
4.) I found  it challenging finding the fonts removing the spaces and making the correct layout.


5) What was you initial feedback? What did others say about your production? How successful was do you think it is?
5.) Others said that my front cover was the best ever in the whole wide world and only wish theirs could be half as good as  mine

6) Identify what went well and with hindsight what you do to improve/do differently.
6.) I think replicated the layout of the Daily Mail front cover well, as well as making the headlines professional considering it was all made from scratch. However, i could have filled more of the space on the front cover with more text or images.

7) In the exam you will be analysing newspaper front covers. In producing this cover, are there any areas that you hadn't noticed before? What have you learnt from completing this task?   
7.) I didn't realize the amount of detailed information there is on a newspaper front cover as well as the different types of news that is advertised. Furthermore, other sorts of advertisements are used such as competitions.

Newspaper representation

Newspaper audiences

Paradise Papers

semiotic news analysis

Newspaper Values

Gate-keeping: Is applied to the editing and filtering process where decisions are made to let information pass through to the reader and others

Continuity/currency: story already in the news and how long they're been updated

Unambiguous-very clear

Personalization-stories that involve normal and real people(human interest)

Proximity- stories closer to our location

threshold-big impact news stories

unexpected-a event that a shock or unlikely

negativity-bad news is More likely

elite persons/places-celebrities or nations

conventions in news

red top tabloid 

• less formal language register 
• softer news agenda- e.g human interest stories,celebrities 
• bold mastheads in sans-serif fonts,often white on red 
• headlines(often banner) in bold,capitalized sans-serif fonts 
• front pages dominated by headlines and images
• often  news as entertainment
• addresses a downmarket audience   

middle market hybrid

• more formal tan the popular press,more opinionated then the quality press 
• mix of hard and soft news
• traditional serif masthead
• capitalised,often banner headlines
• front pages dominated by headlines and images,but usually some copy
•  mix of both 
• addresses a middle market 

broadsheet

• more formal language register 
• harder news agenda-politics,fiance,international news 
• traditional mastheads in serif fonts,capitalized as in a sentence
• front pages dominated copy 
• offers news as information 
• addresses an upmarket audience 

Serif- Simple, straight lines typography.

Sans Serif- More complicated typography, less straight lines.

newspaper notes

Newspaper exam
3x10 markers 1x15 markers
Questions revolve around Liar

• Broadsheet newspapers include the: the times, the guardian, independent(website),

• mid-market tabloids: daily express, daily mail

• tabloid(red top): the sun, the mirror, daily star

newspaper(genre)
broadsheet
tabloids
mid-market tabloids
local newspaper
free sheet
Sunday newspapers

Hard news: politics, business and economics, science, war and conflict, education
soft news: celeb, sport, entertainment, fashion human interest, culture

Estate 1: Religion

Estate 2: Monarchy

Estate 3: The Wealthy

Estate 4: Newspapers

The daily mail

loves the royal family and all the gossip that revolves around them and uses informal language and is aimed at the C and D demographics. 

talks about  both hard news and soft,

uses a  fancy font with a coat of arms in the centre to stick to  English and traditional British views and is a very established newspaper 

tries to cause Moral Panic and is very opinionated.

mail and mirror are only 2 left wing

Talks a lot about the monarchy, very patriarchal. More informal, very colloquial language appealing to lower C an

Newspaper HW

Learner resource 3

Media industries, theories and contexts

Activity 3 – Concentration of ownership

Use the data from Learner activity 1 to investigate the current concentration of ownership of paid for print newspapers by looking up the owner for each title (on Wikipedia or Newsworks).

As an example, the table below gives the circulation figures per owner in August 2018 in millions (percentages in brackets). Note that the Daily Mail and General Trust also own the Metro, a national free newspaper with circulation in August 2018 of 1.5 million.

Newspaper Groups	National Daily Titles Owned	Daily Circulation in millions (percentage of total)
News International	Sun, The Times	2.0 (36%)
Daily Mail and General Trust	Daily Mail	1.3 (23%)
Reach plc	Daily Express, Daily Star, Daily Mirror	1.3 (23%)
Telegraph Group	Daily Telegraph	0.4  (7%)
Johnston Press	i	0.3  (5%)
Nikkei/ Financial Times Ltd	Financial Times	0.2  (4%)
Guardian Media Group	The Guardian	0.1  (2%)

1.      What percentage of daily circulation is owned by the top three owners?

2.      Name the two writers who argue that concentration of ownership decreases quality and choice in newspapers.

One writer Doyle says too much concentration of media ownership is dangerous as the media has too much power and Marxist said that if big corporations own the media then it will limit choice 

Learner resource 1

Media Industries, theories and contexts

Activity 1 – researching the decline in print newspaper circulations

Research the decline in print newspaper circulations: Compare the current figures (e.g. from Wikipedia or News works) with the table below:

Average Daily Print Circulation for National Newspapers for January 2000, in millions
The Sun	3.6
Daily Mail	2.4
Daily Mirror	2.3
The Daily Telegraph	1.0
Daily Star	0.5
Daily Express	1.1
The Times	0.7
Financial Times	0.4
The Guardian	0.4
The Independent	0.2

1.      Which newspaper(s) no longer has print editions?

2.      Which new national newspapers have been founded?

3.      What is the general trend in newspaper circulation?

4.      Which genre of newspaper has had the steepest decline – the red-top tabloids, the middle-market newspapers, or the broadsheets?

Newspaper HW 3

The daily express
PUT 20,000 POLICE OFFERS BACK ON THE STREET NOW!  

Monday 4th march 2019

the publisher of the article is Paul reeves and the intended audience of the newspaper are the paper who fit into the B C1,C2 and D demographics as there is a mixture of hard and soft news and hard news on the cove.The age of the intended audience is probably over 35 years old as they are more likely to buy a newspaper.

the article is based on knife crime in England as 2 more people have been added to the list of victims of it,as the newspaper demands they be 20,000 police officers. It  also about the show do you want to be millionaire and about the royal family sating queen Olivia reigns again.

the image used are pictures of the 2 victims who were killed and one of Olivia and the host of the show who wants  to be a millionaire.

the message of the article is to spread awareness of knife crime and that something needs to be done.

The headline tells us there really against knife crime and that something needs to be done to stop knife crime as the headline in all caps and has a exclamation point putting more exaggeration and really shouting out the point.