Daily mail mock up front cover

We had a task to recreate a daily mail front cover. We got given specific topics to base our stories on, including NHS, Christmas and i'm a celebrity get me out of here. We had an original front cover to look back on for a guide as to where everything goes.

We used the software Microsoft Publisher to create our front cover, it worked really well for our task as we could copy and paste easily and get all different shapes to put in to capture the real aspects of the Daily Mail covers. The hardest parts were to find the accurate fonts on the software which matched the closest to the original fonts.

This is a comparison to the guide we got given and the outcome i produced...

The three little pigs advert

Modern journalism

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zy4rfrd/test

Newspaper backgrounds

	The Sun	The Daily Mail	The Telegraph
Owned by	As a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald; it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.	Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor, Geordie Greig.	The Telegraph is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as Daily Telegraph & Courier.
Audience	The publication is a tabloid, which mostly people who come from a middle social class prefer means that the stories covered and the style used to present them, and people aged between 15 and 44.	The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's second-biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. According to a previous survey, the Daily Mail's audience was considered to be those of the conservative politic views.	At The Telegraph we believe that premium content attracts a premium audience. Across print, digital and third party platforms The Telegraph now reaches 52% of the UK population. That’s 23.1 million people a month (54% of whom are 15-44)
Online	Largest News brand in the UK, 96% visited them on their phones.	The Daily Mail can easily be accessed online, available for viewing and can be seen by anyone who reads it. Articles produced are the same copies in the newspaper.	The Telegraph can easily be accessed online, available for viewing and can be seen by anyone who reads it. Articles produced are the same copies in the newspaper.
Circulation	1,481,876	1,383,932	541,036
Political alignment	Conservative Political party	Conservative Political party	The personal links between the paper's editors and the leadership of the Conservative Party, along with the paper's generally right-wing stance and influence over Conservative activists

Newspaper industry essay

Newspapers are an excellent way of providing the news to the public. They were the most popular and at one point the only way to share the news until the 20th century when online versions became accessible. Due to online versions growing in popularity, it led to the newspaper print sales declining. Hard copies are in competition with online newspapers, this is because they have many advantages over hard copies of newspapers, this include that you can filter what kind of news you want to see, based on personal preference. You can view it anytime and it is updated much more frequently so some would argue it is more reliable and informative.

Although newspaper sales have declined, online news has been a massive positive for the readers. This is because online your are able to view extra media types, like videos, giving the audience more interaction with the article. The audience can also comment on the article and easily see other comments, broadening their thoughts of the story with different opinions. Hard copies cannot provide their audience with videos etc. which adds to the reason their sales have declined, as online versions offer more to you.

Most of the audience are between 15-34 years of age, this group are most likely to have phones where they can access the news online, making it more tempting to view a free online versions instead of leaving the house to go and buy one as it can be time consuming and inconvenient. The sales decline are proven through these following statistics; the daily circulation for the daily mail is 1,228,002, whereas the daily number of website visits is 169,400,000 on PC alone. This shows a massive contrast between online and hard copy sales. Online versions are much more popular because of the advantages we spoke about previously, this proves newspapers sales are declining drastically, but is this necessarily a good thing?

George Gerbner

Georges theory is that exposure to repeated patterns of representation over a long period of time can shape and influence the way in which people perceive the world around them, leading to most stereotypes.

Soft and hard news

Soft news is news that is entertaining or personally useful, usually including celebrities, fashion etc.
Hard news is news that is fast-paced, on the front of the papers, usually involving world news, politics etc.

Examples of soft news:




Examples of hard news: