Sheldon Media A level exam blog - Mr Bush

Work through the following tasks to complete your case study on the Guardian newspaper and website.  The Guardian newspaper and website analysis Use your own purchased copy plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine.  1) What are the most significant front page headlines seen in the Guardian in recent years?   "Middle East in flames" (March 2026):  Coverage of strikes on Iran by the US and Israel. "War' and 'pain'" (April 2025):  Headlines regarding new Donald Trump trade tariffs. "The people's pope" (April 2025):  Reporting on the death of Pope Francis. "Bring them home" (October 2023):  Headlines regarding hostage negotiations during the Israel-Hamas war. "The first UK coronavirus lockdown" (March 2020):  A landmark front page in 2020. "UK's last day of EU membership" (January 2020):  Marking the end of Brexit. 2) Ideology and audience: What ideo...

  Daily Mail and Mail Online analysis  Use your own purchased copy or  our scanned copy of the Brexit edition from January 2020  plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine. 1) What are the most significant front page headlines seen in the Daily Mail in recent years? Dawn of Brexit  2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Daily Mail? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way?  The Daily Mail is a right-wing, socially and economically conservative, mid-market tabloid that champions traditional British values, supports the Conservative Party, and often adopts populist, Eurosceptic, and anti-immigration stances. It positions its audience through sensationalist, emotive language and "them vs us" narratives, encouraging a "preferred reading" that reinforces, for example, traditional family values, support for the monarchy, and a demand for strict law and order...

  Newspaper regulation: blog tasks Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time?    Once employed 130 journalists, in ten years  time? Perch thinks that if it is still in print, it will be weekly, extremely expensive, and have a very  small circulation; if it is online only the likeliest outcome it will be unlikely to make money,  and so would employ as few as five or six staff. 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? The biggest single issue is that something illegal was going on which obviously should not have been , and which wasn’t dealt with by the police, and unfortunately th...