A-Level Media Exam Blog 2- Mr Pall

Read   Media Factsheet 76: News Values   and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our  Media Factsheet archive is available here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 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, ...

  Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption Read  this Ofcom 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?   1. TikTok’s reach for news has increased from 2020 (1%) to 2022 (7%). Half of its user base (for news) are aged 16- 24. 2.  Attitudes towards news generally remain consistent with 2020 (across measures such as quality, accuracy, trustworthiness and impartiality) for TV, radio, social media, newspapers and online, with TV performing strongest, and social media performing least well. 3.  Reach of print/online newspapers has seen a decrease from 2020 (47%) to 2022 (38%). The decrease is driven  by decreases in print (online newspaper reach remains steady) which have likely been exacerbated by the  pand...