Newspapers Industry & Audience MEDIA A LEVEL 2019

Question 1

Develop on citizen journalism as an impact of technological change

Accepted Answer

Mobile phones & high camera quality - platform for CJ, Authentically emotional - witnesses of event, Rapid distribution - large range of social media, Immediate - access to internet allows breaking news

Question 2

What are the advantages of digital newspapers?

Accepted Answer

Immediacy, Efficiency - navigation bar, Interactive content, External web links, Multimedia features

Question 3

What happened as a result of the phone hacking scandal?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 4

How does the Daily Mirror cultivate their readers?

Accepted Answer

Repeated exposure to left wing views = internalisation, Acts as an opinion leader = bias excepted as fact

Question 5

When did The Times & The Sunday Times launch a combined website?

Accepted Answer

2016

Question 6

IPSO deals with breaches of the .....?

Accepted Answer

Editors code of practise

Question 7

When was paywall introduced?

Accepted Answer

2010

Question 8

What was the phone hacking scandal?

Accepted Answer

News Corp owned papers - phone hacking & police bribery

Question 9

Who regulates the Daily Mirror & The Times

Accepted Answer

IPSO

Question 10

What benefits did this deal bring to the Daily Mirror?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 11

Citizen journalism has put traditional media regulation at risk - How?

Accepted Answer

Social media hard to regulate, billions of users & posts, Fake news produced as no responsibility to validate stories

Question 12

What is the print circulation for The Times?

Accepted Answer

430,000

Question 13

How has technological change impacted the newspaper industry?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 14

Develop on ‘online presence’ as an impact of technological change

Accepted Answer

Big advertisers move out of print into digital - wider reach, Daily Mirror & The Times now have online presence, Print sales fall as digital is immediate & regularly updated

Question 15

How does The Times minimise risk & maximise audience?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 16

Develop on social media as an impact of technological change

Accepted Answer

Cheaper to produce & reaches wider audience, Twitter & Facebook grown a news platforms e.g Donald Trump, Cultural shift in the way news is distributed & discussed

Question 17

How many print & online titles does IPSO regulate?

Accepted Answer

1,500 print & 1,100 online

Question 18

Why were their concerns about merging the Daily Express and Daily Mirror companies?

Accepted Answer

Mirror is left vs Express is right - impact political bias

Question 19

What is the circulation of print & online for the Daily Mirror?

Accepted Answer

Print - 640,000 Online - 5,600,600

Question 20

‘Exposure to repeated patterns of representations over tome can shape opinions’

Accepted Answer

George Gerbner

Question 21

“IPSO has no legal requirements & is fully funded by the newspaper industry”

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Who did the phone hacking target specifically?

Accepted Answer

Celebrities, politicians, royal family, Murdered school girl millie Dowler & London bombing victims

Question 23

Reach is the 2nd largest newspaper company in the UK with .....% of newspapers sales

Accepted Answer

24%

Question 24

Which newspaper? Neutral/ centre-right, broadsheet, owned by News Corp

Accepted Answer

Times

Question 25

Which newspaper? - leftwing, tabloid, owned by Reach

Accepted Answer

Daily Mirror

Question 26

What deal did Daily Mirror make in 2018?

Accepted Answer

£200 million deal to buy Express & Star newspapers

Question 27

When did The Times first launch their online news website?

Accepted Answer

1996

Question 28

Apply Curran & Seaton to the Daily Mirror

Accepted Answer

Right & leftwing newspaper ownership - diverse, pluralistic, Daily Mirror made £200 m deal to buy Express & Star papers, Horizontal integration

Question 29

“News Corp is a multimedia conglomerate which is horizontally & vertically integrated”

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

What was the aim of the Leveson inquiry?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 31

Examples from the Editors Code are...?

Accepted Answer

Intrusion of grief, children & children in sex cases, Accuracy, privacy, harassment

Question 32

Apply Curran & Seaton to The Times

Accepted Answer

Conglomerate - Diverse ownership - Varied products, Times - neutral vs Sun - right wing = pluralistic opinions

Question 33

What are the advantages of a print newspaper?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Newspapers Industry & Audience MEDIA A LEVEL 2019

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