Kenian Media Exam Blog

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? - 130 journalists in ten years. He thinks that if it is still in print, it will be weekly, extremely expensive and have a very small circulation. If it's online, it will be unlikely to make money and so would employ on five or six. 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 the resulting actions have been disproportionate. Far too many newspapers and magazines have been caught up in a regulatory system that they shouldn’t really be caught up in. 3) What does IPSO stand for and how does it work? - Independent Press Standards Organisation.  - The press regulator set up in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry and the revelations of phone hacking at tabloid newspapers...

1) 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? -  Using the  example pictured, Afghanistan, in terms of geographical proximity, is far away from the  U.K. but when a young British soldier dies, the story gains cultural proximity as British  audiences see the soldier as ‘one of their own’. On an intensity scale, the first female  officer to be killed is considered more newsworthy as it is unusual. The ongoing war in  Afghanistan is a continuity story but often the interest in the story lies in that fact that  deaths, even though inevitable, are not predictable; a bomb disposal expert may be  expected to live rather than die, which makes the story all the more shocking. There is  also clarity of facts from an authoritative source, namely the Ministry of Defence. 2) What is gatekeeping? -  Gate keeping is the ...