Year 13: Weekly Media homework - news story archive week 1

In Year 13, you have an ongoing homework EVERY week of the year without fail: to find, read and post TWO news stories on your blog.

We recommend putting this homework into your timetable so you have a regular slot you complete it every week.

The details: every week you must find, read, summarise and comment upon two news stories from across the media (A*-B candidates will do more). The focus of these news stories will change depending on the topic we are working on. The first focus for our news stories links to the Newspaper CSPs we have started studying:

Mail Online
The i newspaper website 

You'll also find stories related to the media linked from our Twitter account, @blogmacguffin (access it online here if you don't have the Twitter app) so make sure you're following that too.

Most importantly, you need to do the following on your blog for each story...
  1. Provide the title and weblink
  1. Include a relevant image, graphic or screenshot;
A scene showing the General Lee car from The Dukes of Hazzard original series from the 1980s
Summarise the story in your own words: is this is an example of hard news or soft news?
This is an example of soft news and the story is abut someone driving a van is wildly swerving through the lanes trying to overtake other drivers when suddenly hes faced with a roundabout in front of him and he isn't able to react in time and is sent flying over the roundabout.

Explain how or why this story appeals to an audience (use media terminology and theory here).

This story provides an sense of entertainment for readers as they are interested to find out what happened and why it happened.it provides a sense of diversion(blumer and katz)for the reader.

Comment on the story: to what extent does it reflect the values and ideologies of the newspaper? Is this an example of quality journalism or simply clickbait? 
this is simply click-bait that was only caught because of a dash board camera by chance and provides a sense of entertainment to the reader as this not something that happens frequently and acts as a source of surprise.



You'll be presenting these to the class each week (we'll randomly select a student and you'll be expected to present from memory, so make sure you come prepared) and this will ensure you build up an archive of stories from across the media to widen your media knowledge base and provide examples to use in exam questions and essays. Indeed, by the end of the year, you'll have over 50 stories to demonstrate your knowledge of the wider media.


What will this look like? Although this was for a slightly different task for the old specification Year 13 exam, this blog post from one of our previous Media students gives you an idea of what a valuable resource these stories quickly become.




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