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Understanding The Popular Press »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, AQA GCSE, News, Intro to News, Popular Press, Understanding Media, Understanding Key Topics
What is The Popular Press?
Contents
- definitions of media language associated with newspapers
- codes and conventions
- areas of study
- classroom activities
- front page examples
- front page quiz
- news values
- regulation
- institutions
- representations
- audiences
- politics and the popular press
The Popular Press refers to mass circulation national newspapers, targeted at the popular end of the market. This includes The Sun, The Daily Mirror, The Daily...
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Categories: New Media, Digital Media, New Technologies, We Media, News, Intro to News, Other Topics, Understanding Media, Understanding Key Topics
What is News?
News is an integral part of daily life. We use news to frame our daily events. A plane crashes at Heathrow, in a remarkably short space of time everyone knows about it. We might wake up to it in the morning on the radio or TV. We may go to sleep with it, and we may hear it during the day, or see a live TV screen with rolling news. We may read a newspaper. At its heart, news is about people doing things. People’s activity is...
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Categories: News, Intro to News, Popular Press
Traditionally The Labour Party have been firmly on the left and have branded themselves in red whereas The Conservative Party have been firmly on the right have and have branded themselves in blue. However, since New Labour (Tony Blair) the Labour Party have adopted to a more central position whilst...
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Categories: News, Intro to News, Other Topics, Quizzes, Starters, Skills
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Electronic News »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, WJEC GCSE, New Media, Digital Media, New Technologies, News, Intro to News, More on News
We still get most of our news from the...
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