Media Mr Bush-Exam

  Read   Media Factsheet 76: News Values   and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our  Media Factsheet archive is available here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? They use a guardian story about an English woman who was a victim of a bombing. They list all of the values which can affect and audience, they talk about how the different outcomes and how due to its shock value it stays to be prominent story as this is something that they could not have expected despite it happening. 2) What is gatekeeping? It is filtering information prior to publishing, in other word it is controlling what comes out from the news and the flow of how it comes out to the public. 3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news? -Bias through selection and omission -Bias through placement -Bias

  1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? He suggest that it is shrinking and that it is necessary, the example they give is the the priest who had sexually assaulted 100 boys and when this was mentioned they took him to the rehab. 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? Newspapers have power over the adverts, this is because they decide whether they want them in their paper or not, some mentioned companies are Monster and Craigslist. 3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This means people are reading newspapers in a different way. How does he suggest audiences are consuming news stories in the digital age? Audiences are looking more at the digital news instead of the print as the digital news comes to them straight aw

  Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption 2022 Read  this Ofcom 2022 report on the consumption of news in the UK  and answer the following questions (bullet points/short answers are fine): 1) Look at the headlines from the report on page 6. Pick three that you think are interesting and bullet point them here. Why did you pick those three in particular?   Social media is overtaking traditional channels for news among teens. Attitudes towards news generally remain consistent with 2020 Different age groups consume news very differently; They all have a common theme of news and how they are viewed and consumed by different people . 2) Look at the overall summary for adults on pages 7-8. What are the key points on newspapers?  They talk about news and TV and how it is consumed by primarily adults. 3) Look at the statistics on page 13. What do you notice about newspapers and how has it changed in recent years? Newspapers have had the biggest decrease in 2022 compared to the other years an