Monday 18 June 2012

Multi nationalism

Rupert murdoch born 11 March 1931 is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch owns the sun, the times, news of the world

Wednesday 25 April 2012

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Content for print (terms)

Hard news -

  • Seriousness: Politics, economics, crime, war, and disasters are considered serious topics, as are certain aspects of law, business, science, and technology.
  • Timeliness: Stories that cover current events—the progress of a war, the results of a vote, the breaking out of a fire, a significant statement, the freeing of a prisoner, an economic report of note.


Soft news -
  • The least serious subjects: Arts and entertainment, sports, lifestyles, "human interest", and celebrities.
  • Not timely: There is no precipitating event triggering the story, other than a reporter's curiosity.

Masthead - is the name of the newspaper or magazine (states the title) e.g: The Sun

By-lines - is a line above an article stating the person who wrote the article.

Gutters - are spaced out line of type so that each line fits flush to the margin.

Justified text - is the first few sentences or paragraph's of a news story.

Headline - A title over a newspaper article which summarises the main point for the reader.

Caption - A title or explanatory phrase accompanying a picture.

Lead -

Camera shots

EWS (Extreme Wide Shot)- The view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. Often used as an establishing shot.

VWS (Very Wide Shot)-The subject is visible (barely), but the emphasis is still on placing him in his environment.

WS (Wide Shot) - The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.

MCU (Medium Close Up) - Half way between a MS and a CU.MS (Mid Shot) - Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

CU (Close Up) - A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame.


ECU (Extreme Close Up) - The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail.

Cut-In - Shows some part of the subject in detail.

CA (Cutaway) - A shot of something other than the subject.


Two-Shot - A shot of two people, framed similarly to a mid shot.

(OSS) Over-the-Shoulder Shot - Looking from behind a person at the subject.

P.OV (Point of view shot) - shows a view from the subjects perspective.


Noddy Shot - Usually refers to a shot of the interviewer listening and reacting to the subject.



Print changes in content, style and culture.


Monday 23 April 2012

Ownership channels

Ownership channels
Public ownership group – Owned by the people. Example: BBC. The money comes from the government or council.
Private ownership group – Media group. Example: Virgin own many titles, including Virgin Atlantic airways, Virgin trains, Virgin media, Virgin coke.
Independent ownership group – The owners only own one Channel or store, for example: Up in smoke, The TV channel Viva.

Daily Mirror
1.      Trinity mirror
2.      Private
3.      International
4.      Yes, it is a multinational newspaper because it can be bought worldwide.
5.      No, they get financed for being on the site.

The Times
1.      News corporation
2.      Private
3.      National
4.      Not multinational
5.      No, they get financed for being on the site.

London evening standard
1.      Alexander Lebedev, Daily Mail and general trust.
2.      Private
3.      Regional
4.      Not multinational
5.      Get finance from advertising

Economic developments in print

Economic Developments in Print
Activity one
There are some newspapers that cost more than £1, for example; The Daily Telegraph and The Independent. On the other hand The Financial Times retails at £2, but they sell their newspaper at 90p, which is a net loss of £1.10
The prices of a standard newspaper has risen, the majority of newspapers have upped there price by 20p, Monday – Friday papers were originally £1 but are now £1.20 and weekend papers which were originally £1.90 have rised to £2.10. Newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Independent which all originally cost £1 but on Saturday they were priced between 90p and £1.60. This is there way of making profit, as they know they will get fewer sales on the weekend.

Activity two
Circulation is the number of newspaper copies distributed on an average day.
Readership are the general readers of a newspaper, magazine or book which are regarded collectively.
The guardian has a circulation of 230, 541 on an average daily circulation, which is a good amount of copies sold daily. Plus the guardian’s newspaper price is quite high (£1.20) on weekdays and on the weekend the price has risen to £2.10. On the weekdays they make £1,383.246 and on the weekend they make £968,272.20 as you can see the guardian makes a good amount of money by the statistics of the daily circulation and the prices of the newspapers. The guardian is a broadsheet newspaper, not a tabloid. This is why the price is quite high.
Activity three
The daily circulation of all newspapers has increased from 2010 to 2012 because the competition has got much harder to sell newspapers, due to digital technology changing and rival newspapers.
1.      In my opinion I think this is good as the newspapers are making more sales due to the amount of daily circulations being produced.
2.      Also newspapers rivals encourage others to heighten  there circulation and distribution amount.