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Rupert Murdoch: is an american-australian media mogul  His father, Sir Keith Murdoch , had be en a reporter, editor, and senior executive of the  Herald  and  Weekly Times  newspaper publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales. Murdoch thus had full control as Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, now the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013. media mogul-successful businessman or entrepreneur  that controls through personal or via a dominant in any media related context.  news corp and fox tv , these are both conglomerates that own financial news services and wireless media . Why are people scared of him? if he has too much influence of the media the news will be biased.  his fox tv news channel is ...

P aywalls provide businesses with consistent revenue. When people pay a regular monthly or yearly membership fee it is easier how much  to determine how much money you have coming in on an annual basis.  This isn’t always the case if you’re relying on one off payments or purchases for your revenue. This leads to a feast or famine dynamic that many people are unhappy with. Paywalls are useful for protection purposes. Many companies offer services or access to web content for a fee, ie: music streaming services.  Companies selling a products only benefit from creating revenue in a physical location that is only made available to the customer at the point of sale. Businesses focused on the intangible can allow access to their site or services at all times. A  company that does not have tangible inventory benefits from a paywall in place in order to function as an online business to generate higher income.  When a user see's that a site ...

Galtung and Ruge - News Values - Theory. Galtung and Ruge (1973) believed that our perception of what constitutes an event is culturally determined and not a natural occurrence – but they also believed that it related to ‘human culture’ and therefore should not vary too much globally. Their theory argues that the more an event accessed these criteria the more likely it was to be reported on in a newspaper (although the individual factors are inter-related, not independent of one another). An example: in the Western world we are obsessed with celebrities and their lifestyles. David Beckham splits with Posh Spice and on the same day five children are killed in a minibus accident. The tabloids will carry the Beckham’s story on the front page because we as a society have decided that celebrity gossip is more interesting and news worthy than the other story.  These are 12 of the ‘most significant’ news values from the work of Galtung and Ruge: 1.Frequency — short-term events like...

Newspapers can commonly be defined as either a ‘broadsheet’ newspaper or a ‘tabloid’ newspaper. Tabloid: • Feature popular articles that appeal to the masses (i.e. human interest stories and celebrity gossip) • Tone used is informative and informal • Uses jokes and wordplay in headlines • Adverts are aimed towards lower social groups • Use more images than text (image led) • Examples include; The Sun, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Star Broadsheet: • Feature ‘quality’ articles including political and international stories • Tone is informative and formal • Headlines are more factual and direct • Adverts target higher social groups • Use more text than images (text led) • Examples include The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian Conventions of a newspaper: Task: who are the target audience for these papers? (prints that were handed out) Both newspapers were similar in a lot of ways, for example, they're both targeted for a demographic ...

Key terms:   conglomerate -a thing consisting  of different parts or items that are grouped together , collection. -normally large companies are conglomerate Examples of conglomerate companies:   Timewarner Disney  Sony     oligopoly-  a state of limited competition in which a market is shared by a small number of producers and companies    DMGT- Daily Mail and General Trust plc is a British media company, the owner of The Daily Mail and trhe metro and several other titles.  Wikipedia Stock price :  DMGT   (LON)   688.50 GBX   +4.50 (+0.66%) 3 Nov, 12:02 GMT -  Disclaimer CEO :  Paul Zwillenberg Chairperson :  Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere CFO :  Tim Collier Headquarters :  London Revenue :  1.91 billion GBP (2016) Number of employees :  9,600 (2014) Subsidiaries :  DMG Media ,  ZPG plc , Trinity Minor-  Trinity Mirror plc is the largest...

Five Things about Women in the Press (BBC, 3/12/12) Some points for discussion Sex objects: Journalist Edwin Smith said that showing sexualised images of women in newspapers is “... designed for women. That doesn’t legitimize it but it shows it’s not a case of patriarchal power.”   Discuss this quotation. Does he have a point?  Is it still objectification if women look at these images too?  Is it possible for women to take on a “male gaze”? Wives and mothers: What do you think is meant by the statement “You have to represent your whole gender”? And how does this link to the portrayal of wives and mothers? Relative invisibility: Women make up around 51% of the population.  Is this reflected in news representations?  Do you think there is a link here between the proportion of male / female journalists, as also mentioned in the article? Too fat / thin / old / young: what is the problem with the media’s obsession with judging women’s bodies? Do this ...

Stuart Hall:  was a Jamaican-born  cultural theorist , political activist and  sociologist who lived and worked in the  United Kingdom  from 1951. Hall, along with  Richard Hoggart  and  Raymond Williams , was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as  British Cultural Studies  or The  Birmingham School of Cultural Studies . Studied at Oxford university, he's very privileged because it framed his thinking. He worked on re-framing "Britishness" and talked about how audiences interpreted class, religion and race in mainstream media. the"other". Three different types of reading: Reception theory - focuses on the conditions in which audiences read media texts.  encoding - meaning put in decoding -meaning taken out polysemic - having more than one meaning,/multiple  three types of meanings:dominant, negotiable & oppositional  Dominant reading-clo...