IPSO - Independent Press Standard Organisation - regulates the news
The Leveson Inquiry
Types of news:
Popular (tabloid), mid-market, quality (broadsheet)
| Owned by | Audience | Online | Circulation | Political alignment |
The Guardian | Scott Trusted Limited | The Guardian target an educated, middle-class, left-leaning, 18+ audience. 85% ABC1 | Free access to all current news and archive/past stories | 105,134 in July 2021, print edition | Left wing |
The Times | News Corp | Male dominated and mostly ABC1 readers | Started online from 1999 From July 2010, anyone not subscribed to print have to pay £2 a week to read online | 417,298 in January 2019 and The Sunday Times 712,291 | Centre right |
The Daily Mirror | Reach PLC | 67% ABC1 Workers and labour supporters aimed for ages around 18–30-year-olds | It is the second most popular multi-platform news website, due to its popular demand being on a mobile platform base | 716,923 in December 2016 | Labour |
The Sun | Tycoon Rupert Murdoch | C2DE group both genders middle/working class | Currently updating its website to being online content free | 1.2 million in February 2020 | Right wing |
The Daily Mail | The 4th Viscount Rothermere | Lower middle class women average age 55 62% ABC1 | Launched its website in 2003 called 'mail online' | 1,134,184 in Febuary 2020 | Right wing |
The Telegraph | Barclay brothers, the Telegraph Media Group | Average age 61, older reader age Mostly women Mostly ABC1 | Has a website called the 'Electronic Telegraph, however, has to pay/subscribe to access content | 363,183 in December 2018 | Right wing, conversative |
Gatekeeping
- term applied to the editing and filtering process where decisions are made to let some information 'pass through' to the receiver and other information remains barred
PCUP TUNE
Personalisation - include human interest, 'real' people
Continuity/currency - already in news to run and are updated
Unexpectedness - event that is shocking/out of the ordinary
Proximity - closer to home, more likely to be included
Threshold - bigger impact and reach of the story
Unambiguous - easy to understand and report on
Negativity - bad news is more interesting
Elite person/places - stories about important people and powerful nations
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