Newspapers and news articles

Philpot U3.1 Journalism (pp 69-77, 134)

Good news: https://www.boredpanda.com/positive-news-2019-illustrations-mauro-gatti/

To complement old CC pp 175-184 (Mass communication) and PhilpotNew U1.8 News articles:

Task: When you have done p 179 in the Mass communication document (old CC) and the front page news activity there, look at the following on front pages and analysis of such, pick one front page and write an analysis of it as if it were Paper 1 (analysis of a previously unseen text). Include a copy of the front cover in your document, and put it in your portfolio. Be ready to share, discuss and comment.

Possible guiding question: In what ways does the page capture the reader's imagination?

Front pages of British newspapers. https://www.thepaperboy.com/uk/front-pages.cfm

US front pages: https://www.thepaperboy.com/usa/front-pages.cfm

Tomorrow's papers front pages (British): https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/

How to analyse a newspaper front page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w60DWBNRLsc

Mediaknowall: http://www.mediaknowall.com/gcse/news/news.php

Who works in a TV newsroom: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/tv-news-careers-525690

Ambiguous NP headlines (discuss what they might mean):

http://www.fun-with-words.com/ambiguous_headlines.html

Some headline fun:

https://bestlifeonline.com/funniest-newspaper-headlines-of-all-time/?nab=1

NB! If a guiding question is missing from a text that could potentially function as a Paper 1 text, use this:

Analyse the text, commenting on the significance of the context, audience, purpose, and formal and stylistic features.

Task: 2 NP articles on the same topic, different perspectives:

Introduce the texts - topics and sources.

Discuss differences in language, tone, facts, comments, pictures, etc.

Broadsheets vs tabloids: Tabloids vs broadsheets doc on Tera

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zps4qty/revision/1

Bias: https://libguides.pvcc.edu/evaluatinganewsstory/bias

(If it ever happens that the above does not work any more, hopefully the following links originally included in it still work:

Identifying Biased News Reporting

• Fake News Is Not the Only Problem

  By Gilad Lotan, from Points
• How Do You Tell When the News Is Biased? It Depends on How You See Yourself

  By Jonathan Stray, from NeimanLab
• How the Web Distorts Reality and Impairs Our Judgement Skills

  by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, from the Guardian
• How to Detect Bias in News Media

  By FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
• Media Bias

  From Student News Daily. Provides definitions for the types of media bias.
• Media Bias: Is Slanted Reporting Replacing Objectivity?

  By Robert Kiener, from CQ Researcher

See this on Tera: Recognizing Online Propaganda, Bias, and Advertising - Transcript

Types of bias: https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/types-of-media-bias/

Media bias chart: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/intro-to-the-media-bias-chart/

Media bias archive: https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/archive/example-of-media-bias/ )