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  The Times - Introduction: blog tasks Read  the About Us page of the Times website  and answer the following questions: 1) What year was  The Times  founded and when did it start using the  Times  name? 1st january 1985. 2) What content did John Walter suggest the paper would offer in the first edition? politics, foreign affairs, matters of trade, legal trials, advertisements and “amusements” . 3) Who owns  The Times  today and how is editorial integrity protected? News Corp 4) What did  The Times  introduce in 2010 and why? Both papers introduced  digital subscriptions  in 2010 to help ensure a sustainable future for their journalism. 5) What was  The Times  named in 2018 by the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford University? Britain's most trusted national newspaper 6) What does the section on Editorial Standards say about  The Times  and newspaper regulation?  rules that newspapers and magazines regulated by IPSO have agreed to follow. The Code is written and administere

  Mock exams learner response: blog tasks Today, we need to closely analyse our performance across both papers and identity specific ways we will improve for the real exams on  Monday 13 and Monday 20 May . Complete the following  learner response  tasks in a new blogpost on your Media blog called 'March mock exams learner response': 1) Type up any comments you can find in your papers - these may be on individual questions or at the end of the paper. Alternatively, write something you've learned from going through the two papers in class.  42/84- grade 4  2) Which paper did you do better in? i think i did better in paper 1  3) Why do you think you did better in that paper? because i think   revised  more for paper One which impacted some of the marks i got and i had ,ore of an understanding of the close studies.  4) Focusing on Paper 1, write down  three  things you need to improve on before the real exams. This may be a particular section or type of question (e.g. unseen a

  Newspapers: Daily Mirror - Audience and Industries Audience 1) What is the Daily Mirror's audience? List the key statistics here. working class, the labour party, 65+ 2) Why do the Mirror stories on the CSP pages appeal to the Daily Mirror audience? as some of the are informal and still important as well 3) Why might a reader  enjoy  the Daily Mirror? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory to add detail to your answer. as all topics aren't serious and can also be classed as 'entertainment' 4) Why are print newspapers generally read by older audiences? the is because this generation mainly use online platforms to read news 5) How is the inside-page story on our CSP pages constructed to appeal to Daily Mirror readers? Think about text and selection of images. as it has a mixture of entertainment and serious news and also the images are more suitable as some of the audience may not be able to read as well due to them being in the working or lower class.  I

  Blog tasks: Daily Mirror case study Work through the following questions to cover the Language and Representations key concepts for the  Daily Mirror . Language 1) Write the definition of the following key language for newspaper front pages (you may want to add an example for each from our Daily Mirror CSP): Masthead: Title of the newspaper Pug: short piece of  vital info  Splash Head: lead story Slogan: short   phrase to  advertise product.  Dateline: where and when the info was reported Kicker: additional  headline for your news  Byline: naming the writer of the article Stand first : introduction paragraph to an article  2) How much does a copy of the Daily Mirror cost? (Note: the current cost is different to the CSP edition - we recommend learning both). 55p 3) What are the main stories on the CSP edition of the Daily Mirror (see above)? Make sure you learn the headline and what the stories are about. pride of Britain and global warming  4) Why is the choice of news stories and co