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  Newspaper regulation: blog tasks Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? Where does he see a paper like The Mercury, which once employed 130 journalists, in ten years time? Perch thinks that if it is still in print, it will be weekly, extremely expensive, and have a very small circulation; if it is online only – the likeliest outcome – it will be unlikely to make money, and so would employ as few as five or six staff. 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? The biggest single issue is that something illegal was going on which obviously should not have been, and which wasn’t dealt with by the police, and u

  The TV licence fee scandal: why are 1,000 people a week being casually criminalised? Each year, tens of thousands of UK citizens are charged with non-payment of their TV licence fee – from the man who missed payments while in hospital, to a woman with a brain injury who forgot to pay. Hard News Example of clickbait due to people being curious to why people are being criminalised over something so small. Others in the smaller minority may also relate to this experience. I thought I was a healthy eater but when I tried to avoid ultra-processed foods for a day I realised it's more complicated than I thought (not to mention expensive) Every time ultra-processed foods hit the headlines, it seems to get worse and worse. We’ve known for some time that they’re not great for you, but it turns out that if you eat a lot of them - it could be harming pretty much every part of your body, with experts comparing them to cigarettes in terms of the damage they can cause. According to a major revi

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? The higher a news story scores on this list, the more likely it is to become news. Using the example pictured, Afghanistan, in terms of geographical proximity, is far away from the U.K. but when a young British soldier dies, the story gains cultural proximity as British audiences see the soldier as ‘one of their own’. On an intensity scale, the first female officer to be killed is considered more newsworthy as it is unusual. The ongoing war in Afghanistan is a continuity story but often the interest in the story lies in that fact that deaths, even though inevitable, are not predictable; a bomb disposal expert may be expected to live rather than die, which makes the story all the more shocking. There is also clarity of facts from an authoritative source, namely the Ministry of Defence. This particular stor

The Future of Journalism: Blog tasks Part 1: Clay Shirky lecture Go to the  Nieman Lab webpage (part of Harvard university) and watch the video of Clay Shirky presenting to Harvard students . The video is also available on YouTube below but the Nieman Lab website has a written transcript of everything Shirky says.  Play the clip AND read along with the transcript below to ensure you are following the argument. You need to watch from the beginning to 29.35 (the end of Shirky's presentation). Once you've watched and read the presentation and made notes (you may want to copy and paste key quotes from the transcript which is absolutely fine), answer the questions below: 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? Father  John Geoghan , who was a priest and pedophile who had been employed by the Catholic Church since the 1960s. Three Globe reporters had been working on this story and they had gotten ho

  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. This shows the dynamic nature of the media industry and how it is changing very rapidly. Different age groups consume news very differently. This shows much news needs to be adapted in order to fit the correct target audience. Reach of print/online newspapers has seen a decrease from 2020 (47%) to 2022 (38%). Due to the growth of the internet, print and now moved online. 2) Look at the overall summary for adults on pages 7-8. What are the key points on newspapers?  The differences between platforms used across age groups are striking. The BBC remains the news organisation with the highest cross-platform audienc