Media blog 1 - Mr Halsey

Newspapers: Regulation The debate regarding the regulation of the newspaper industry has been one of the most controversial and important media issues of the last 10 years. You need to understand how the newspaper industry is regulated, how some people think it should be regulated and what might happen in the future. Most importantly, you need to form your own opinion on newspaper regulation and how the industry should operate following the 2012 Leveson Inquiry. Newspaper regulation: notes A brief history of newspaper regulation The newspaper industry was regulated by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) between 1990 and 2014. It was a voluntary regulator with no legal powers and was heavily criticised for saying it found no evidence of phone hacking at the News of the World in 2007. The PCC had a code of practice that provided guidelines for newspapers in how to report inaccuracies, crime, news stories involving children and more. However, the PCC was effectively ru...

September 26, 2018 Read  Media Factsheet 76: News Values  and complete the following questions/tasks. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets 1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson: Conflict: Africa Being Compared To Warzone Progress: Trump and Kim Jong Un Come to Agreement Disaster: Hurricane Harvey Causes Disaster in Texas Consequence:  Prominence: Ronaldo vents about European Football Referees Novelty: 2) 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 death of Osama bin Laden is the example given and, for its time, is the main story that would receive airtime due to the fact that it is a story that bears multiple of the news values Gatlung and Ruge mention. 3) What...