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The Guardian CSP

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The Guardian newspaper and website analysis Use your own purchased copy plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine.  1) What are the most significant front page headlines seen in the Guardian in recent years? Brexit Day - 31 January 2020 Phone hacking Scandal - leading to the closure of News of the World Biden Election Boris Johnson Partygate verdict and Migrant Shipwreck 2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Guardian? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? I feel like the audiences can respond or interpret things in whatever way they want to, I also feel like the Guardian allows for speculation and theory to run rampant. 3) How do the Guardian editions/stories you have studied reflect British culture and society? They target big British ideas on institutions such as the government or big British corporations. Now visit  the Guardian newspaper website  and look at a few storie
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Daily Mail and Mail Online CSP: Blog tasks

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Daily Mail and Mail Online analysis  Use your own purchased copy or  our scanned copy of the Brexit edition from January 2020  plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine. 1) What are the most significant front page headlines seen in the Daily Mail in recent years? 2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Daily Mail? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? 3) How do the Daily Mail stories you have studied reflect British culture and society? Now  visit Mail Online  and look at a few stories before answering these questions: 1) What are the top five stories? Are they examples of soft news or hard news? Are there any  examples of ‘clickbait’ can you find? 2) To what extent do the stories you have found on MailOnline reflect the values and ideologies of the Daily Mail newspaper? 3) Think about audience appeal and gratifications: why is MailOnline the most-read English language newspap
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The Future of Journalism: Blog tasks

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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? The Bishop Accountability Project, which set up a database to prevent the “this is a rare occasion that doesn’t happen elsewhere” kinds of excuses from taking hold, added that article and the
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