Key Questions - Newspapers

Regulation:
Who regulates this text?
What legal and ethical issues does this text bring up?
Does this text offer its audiences a plurality of experiences?
Examples

Distribution:
Who distributes this product?
How many copies are / were sold?
What is the circulation of this product?
Can the product be distributed digitally?

Power and Organisation:
Who owns this product?
Is the owner a major or indie?
What else do they produce / publish?
Are they vertically an / or horizontally integrated?
Do they operate as a subsidiary?
What is the dominant ideology of this organisation?


The Daily Mirror & The Times 10/11/2016

A) Media Language (Barthes, Levi-Strauss)

A) Representation (Hall)

B) Audience (Gerbner, Hall, Shirky)

B) Industry (Curran & Seaton, Livingstone & Lunt, Hesmondhalgh)A) Media Language (Barthes, Levi-Strauss)

A) Representation (Hall)

B) Audience (Gerbner, Hall, Shirky)

B) Industry (Curran & Seaton, Livingstone & Lunt, Hesmondhalgh)





Who regulates this text? IPSO - Independent Press Standards Organisation
What legal and ethical issues does this text bring up? False journalism, bias and pushing different agendas (see set texts above)
Does this text offer its audiences a plurality of experiences? This could be argued because of how both newspapers have different sections within the paper, such as the sports section, fashion, furniture, tv, horror-scopes, advert pages etc. While both of the papers do encompass this, I do not think that it is true plurality because of how bias can be presented within each paper. As well as this, both papers have a different layout, taking bias out of the picture, it can be assumed that The Times has a wider sense of plurality due to its more middle class demographic. The Daily Mirror, on the other hand, is a tabloid newspaper and more focused on sensationalist and celebrity stories, more for the working class audience.

 Who distributes this product? 
How many copies are / were sold?
What is the circulation of this product?  The Times is the sixth-most-circulated daily newspaper in the UK, with 440,558 daily. The Daily Mirror is the fifth most circulated daily newspaper in the UK, with 583,192 daily.
Can the product be distributed digitally? Both of them can, and they have websites dedicated to online articles.

Who owns this product?
Is the owner

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