news (newspapers)

IPSO - independent press standards organisation

• newspapers in decline with print

• allowed to be political biased

Leveson inquiry 2011- in response to phone hacking at news of the world was carried out. suggested a code of conduct and tighter controls. nothing really happened about it other then new IPSO instead of PCC

Labour - left wing - The mirror, The guardian, The observer

Populars - red top - tabloids

Sun

Mirror

People

Star

Mid market - tabloids

mail - daily

Evening standard#

Metro

Express - daily, Sunday

Quality - broadsheet

Telegraph - Daily, Sunday

guardian

observer

Times - Sunday pay wall

Independent

i

FT (financial times)

Newspaper terminology

Masthead - MH - Title of the newspaper displayed on the front page.

Barcode - BC - used to scan the newspaper when purchasing. It is an optical, machine-readable, representation of data and contains information such as price.

Caption - C - brief text underneath an image describing the photograph of graphic.

Headline - H - a phrase that summarises the main point of the article. usually in large print and a different style to catch the attention of the reader.

Main image - MI - dominant picture, often filling much of the front cover.

Page number - PN - a system of organisation within the magazine. helps you find what you want to read.

Target audience - TA - people who the newspaper aims to sell to.

Pull quote - PQ - something taken from within an article, usually said by the person in the main image.

Classified ad - CA - an advertisement that uses only text as opposed to a display ad, which also incorporates graphics.

Skyline - S - information panel on the front page that tells the reader about other stories in the paper to tempt them inside.

Edition - E some newspapers print several of these every night, these are versions with some changes and maybe additional stories.

Stand first - SF - block of text that introduces the story, normally in a different style to the body text and headline.

Byline - B - The line above the story, which gives the author's name and sometimes their Job and location.

Body text - BT - also known as copy. written material that makes up the main part of an article.

Stand alone - SA - picture story that can exist on its own or on a front page leading to a story inside.

Centre spread - CS - a photograph. often in full colour, that runs across the middle two pages.

Lead story - LS - main story, usually a splash.

Gutter - G - The blank space between margins of facing pages of a publication or the blank space between columns of text.

Folio - F - Top label for the whole page. can relate to the area covered in the paper for example, National or a big news topic such as social media, Syria.

Page furniture - PF - everything on a page except pictures or text stories.

News Value

gate keeping - Applied to editing and filtering process where decisions are made to let some information 'pass through' to the receiver / Audience and other information is barred.

C - continuity/currency - stories that are already in the news continue to run and be updated

U - unambiguous - stories that are easy to understand and easy for papers to report on

P - personalisation - stories that include human interest

P - proximity - stories that are closer to home are more likely to be included

T - Threshold - the bigger the impact and reach of the story

U - unexpectedness - event that is shock or unordinary

N - negativity - bad news is more interesting ( ' if it bleeds it leads' )

E - elite person/places - stories about important people and powerful nation