OCR newspapers media industries
- Created by: hannah_thorley
- Created on: 08-03-20 12:53
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- Newspapers Industries
- Production, Distribution, Circulation
- ONLINE
- Distribution + Circulation is the website
- Citizen journalism too, on sites such as Facebook
- Facebook can control who sees what - demographics
- Exclusives can become recycled vv quickly - gossip and lifestyle minimises risk
- Seaton - oligarchy is protected by big mainstream media still controls companies
- Social Media are now news gatekeepers - lack of control. Click bait, fake news, citizen journalism - image driven
- Contexts
- economics - everything is driven by profits (except the BBC)
- Decline in expensive international news, focus on celebs, sport and lifestyle
- ONLINE
- Ownership and Control
- Curran and Seaton - capitalist views, no creativity or quality - narrow opinions
- Better at gaining social and political profits, not economic profits - owned by rich individuals, no conglomerate,
- Conglomorate + subsidiaries + circulation (SEE TABLE)
- Influence of contexts
- Political + economic = Competition and Markets Authority - government encourages competition to work efficiently
- Media plurality is a live political issues eg- Labour Party encourages more newspaper readers to help create more diverse voices
- Political - role of press freedom in the running of democracy. Newspapers are allowed to be bias - yet editors hope that they don't affect the content
- Leveson Inquiry - Curran and Seaton. Political parties' relationship with the press - not always in the public's interest
- Political + economic = Competition and Markets Authority - government encourages competition to work efficiently
- Funding
- Circulation
- Paywall
- Papers such as the Financial Times - small audience willing to pay for specialised content
- Membership
- Print and online advertising
- Sponsored content
- Contexts
- Paywall
- Papers such as the Financial Times - small audience willing to pay for specialised content
- Online audiences resist paying for content - self governing ethos
- Political Context - people think that economically, and because news is so fundamental, people should have to pay for it
- Paywall
- Impact of Tech
- Technological revolution in the 80's for printing and hybridisation
- Digital convergence includes:
- Audience interactivity
- Citizen journalism
- Fast news!
- Visuals and soft news is prioritised
- Fake news (lack of regulation)
- funding has changed!
- has allowed them to expand their brand (online)
- Regulation
- The Guardian tries to create a trusted identity
- Liberal laws offer more restraint - journalists have to prove the truth
- Online newspapers have NO regulation
- 'fake news' = 2016 US election
- free press helped democracy before
- Individual Producers
- DM columnists = Peter Osborne = vv right ring
- G = more gender neutral; readers set the tone, not the columnists
- celebrity culture - columnists are given some celebrity - by-lines and photographs
- Feminism - rise of female columnists
- M-culturalism- more ethnic minority staff, but still not equal
- G = more gender neutral; readers set the tone, not the columnists
- DM columnists = Peter Osborne = vv right ring
- Production, Distribution, Circulation
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