Media Studies - Newspapers (Daily Mail + The Guardian)

News worthy

An event is worthy of coverage in the press

Hard news

Up to the minute news and events that are reported immediately

Soft news

Background information or human-interest stories

Brief History of the Newspaper Industry - PCC

-regulated the newspaper industry between 1990 and 2014, and even then it was a voluntary regulator with no legal powers

-was effectively run by the newspaper editors themselves and the papers merely had to print a small apology when the regulator ruled against them

Brief History of the Newspaper Industry - The Leveson Inquiry (2011-12)

A judicial public inquiry ordered by the government into the culture and ethics of the British press.

This followed the revelations of the phone hacking that was practiced by News of the World to get more information which also caused the closure of the company.

Brief History of the Newspaper Industry - Leveson ruling

-Regulations should not be done by current editors and must be independent from the industry

-Legislation must be the duty of the government

-Enshrine press freedom

David Cameron (prime minister at the time) disagreed that press regulations should be in law though

Brief History of the Newspaper Industry - For regulating the press

-investing in property investigative journalism

-robust self-regulation

-IPSO doesn't meet Leveson requirements

-no other media form is allowed self-regulation (at the time) so why should magazines

Brief History of the Newspaper Industry - Against regulating the press

-Lack of trust in politians e.g. trying to shut down stories

-Intervention and control

Brief History of the Newspaper Industry - IPSO

-Introduced after the Legeson report

-Basically PCC but under a new name

-Doesn't act on Leveson's key recommendation that the regulator is backed by government legislation

Brief History of the Newspaper Industry - IMPRESS

-Set up as an alternative regulator at the same time as IPSO

-Fully compliant with Leveson but not major newspapers have signed up with IMPRESs

Galtung and Ruge - News Values

-Threshold

-Frequency

-Negativity

-Unexpectedness

-Unambiguity

-Personalisation

-Meaningfulness

-Reference to the elite (nations and people)

-Continuity

Daily Mail - Basic Info

-a ‘black top’ or a mid-market tabloid newspaper

-the second most popular daily national newspaper

-offers a mix of hard and soft news

-socially, economically and politcially conservative and backs the Conservative Party in poltics

Daily Mail - Ownership and editorial

-owned by the DMGT

-chairman: Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (whose great-grandfather was the co-founder of Daily Mail)

Daily Mail - Readership

-average age: 40

-almost half of its readers are over 65

-only newspaper to have more female readers than male

-ABC1 percentage: 68% (seen as the voice of middle England)