Newspaper practice: Analyse

Online news

Advantage

• Free
• Lots of people can access so more navigable
• Navigable to own interest
• Up to date
• Interactive
• Archive facility
• Apps make getting the news more navigable
• Up to the minute news

Disadvantage

• Overload of news- flooded
• Ads
• Cost of broadband
• Fake news
• Comments    

Framework of a newspaper article

5Ws of Journalism

Who is the story about?
What is the story about?
Where did the story happen?
When did the story take place?
Why did it happen?

Newspapers

Gatekeeping:
A term which is applied to the editing and filtering process where decisions are made to let some information pass through to the reader (audience) and other information remains barred.

News Values
Galtung and Ruge
Media researches who analyse international news stories to find out what kind of stories came to of the news 'agenda' worldwide and what factors placed them at the top of the news agenda.

KEYWORDS

Threshold: The bigger the impact and reach of the story.
Unexpectedness: An event that is a shock or out of the ordinary
Negativity: Bad news is more interesting 'if it bleeds it leads'
Elite person/places: Stories that are about important people and powerful nations
Unambiguous: Stories that are easy to understand and for papers to report on
Personalisation: Stories that include human interest- 'Real people'
Proximity: Stories that are closer to home and more likely to be included
Continuity/currency: Stories that are already in the news continue to run and are updated

Moor news article analysis

How has this news article been constructed?

Headline:
Works as an enigma (Barthes), teasing the audience to want to find out more. They are an important hook to capture the audience and encourage them to pay attention to the article. There is an assumption in this headline that the audience will know who Brady is, and the word ‘moor’ will remind them if they have forgotten.
Intro:
Like the headline, the hook should grab the audience’s attention and encourage them to want to read the rest of the article. Intros are usually very short – maybe 30 words – and should be able to be read and digested quickly and easily. The intro sums up the main point of the article – in this case the discussion of Brady’s possible final resting place.
Focus
Journalists often present stories from a human interest angle, putting people at the centre of their stories. Quotes are often used to give a human touch by emphasising the importance of the people in the story. In this instance, Brady is the focus but the sympathy clearly lies with the victims and their families. A quote from one of the victim’s brothers shows this.
Narrative
Reveals information in such a way as to keep the reader interested but also to aid their understanding of what is going on.
Structure
Short paragraphs are important in news reports and each one is used to develop the narrative of the story a little bit more. There is also often a structure to news stories in that all the important info is given at the start and less important details are added later. In this example, the important info is that a coroner will not release Brady’s body until he is satisfied his ashes won’t be scattered on the Moor. Arguably less important information comes later such as how he died.

Newspapers

Newspapers

Tabloids-

• The sun
• Daily mail
• The mail
• Daily Express
• Daily Star
• The evening standard

Broadsheet-

• Guardian
• Telegraph
• The Times
• The Sunday Times
• The I

Features of broadsheets

• Formal Language
• Highly researched
• Factual
• Unbiased
• Clean layout
• Small type face
• Multiple articles on the front
• 'Serious' press
• Aimed at higher social groupings A,B,C
• Serious headlines
• Longer more detailed text
• Emphasis on important global/national news, political, economic, social and cultural issues

Features of tabloids

• Lots of big colourful pictures
• Covers gossip and celebrities
•  Aimed at groups C2, D,E
• Lots of ads and freebies
• Colloquil language
• Bold layout
• Large eye catching photographs

News Introduction

Newspaper overview

• Newspapers have been around since mid 17th century
• Until the 20th century newspapers were the primary way of delivering news
• Unlike broadcasting newspapers do not have to be impartial so they are allowed to show the political bias.
• Newspapers are largely self regulating, there regulating body is the IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation)
• But newspapers are now largely declining

The Leveson inquiry 2011
This was in response to the phone hacking at The News of the World. Which consequently set out a code of conduct that made tighter controls to be imposed.

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