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Coronavirus: UK death toll reaches 35 in largest rise of Covid-19 deaths since global pandemic began Summary: the number of people that have died after being tested for coronavirus is 35 on Sunday the deaths doubled from 11 to 21 from Friday to Saturday there is a rise of 232 a day for corona virus in Manchester a man was just given 15 minutes to say bye to his grandfather who was about to pass away. This is appealing because it is very local to most readers and has increased vulnerability for the audience. furthermore is is a negative impact which is likely to draw the audience in heavily as society is rather interested in the negative than the positive Daily Mail Millions of workers stay at home - leaving trains and roads EMPTY as ministers warn 'ghost services' on railways could be axed completely amid coronavirus crisis Millions of people stayed home from work leaving trains and buses empty Some ghost trains were created ehich led to trains be...

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? 130 Staff members. Whether it's in print it's going to be' highly expensive, monthly and with a limited circulation' or online it'll fail to make money and only hire 5/6 members of staff. 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? Perch said' A small part of the press acted in a completely inappropriate fashion, but it should have been done legally. I don't think legislation is the solution.' indicating he sees the conclusions taken from the phone hacking case as being inadequate for the situation and...

1) Type up your  feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). 2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your  target grade  for A Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2? i did not meet my target grade a These are the grade boundaries we've used, based on last year's A Level exam but raised slightly to account for the fact they will probably move up slightly (out of 84):   A* = 75; A = 66; B = 54; C = 44; D = 32; E = 20. Now read through the  AQA mark scheme  for Paper 2 - you'll already have looked at this in class when marking the exam booklet of other students' responses. The original  Paper 2 question paper is here  if that is helpful too. 3) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points th...

1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson: Conflict: Afghan conflict Progress: Switzerland voted in favour of LGBTQ Disaster: Coronavirus Consequence: London Knife crime Prominence: Philip Scofield coming out gay Novelty: Death of Kobe Bryant 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 higher the ratings in this ranking for a news storey, the more likely it is to become news. Using the example pictured, Afghanistan is far from the UK in terms of geographical proximity. But the tale gains cultural significance when a young British soldier dies as British viewers see the soldier as' one of their own.' The first female officer to be killed on a severity scale is considered to be more newsworthy, as it is rare. The ongoing war in Afghanistan is a tale ...

Italy quarantines 16 million people to stem coronavirus outbreak - what does it mean for Italians or for Brits travelling to Italy Around 16 million Italians have been quarantined while the government is enforcing strict measures to try to avoid coronavirus spread. The world has seen the largest daily rise in Covid-19 cases since the outbreak started on 21 February in Northern Italy, with the number of infections rising by more than 1,200 to 5,883 in the last 24 hours. In reaction, the government decreed the entire region of Lombardy, including the financial capital Milan, and closed off 14 provinces in four distinct regions. Appealing to the audience because Coronavirus is spreading rapidly world wide therefore meaning it impacts a lot of people meaning that people will be more drew into reading the article Revealed: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not be part of Queen's procession in Westminster Abbey before Commonwealth Service today as they carry out last o...

1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? ' Accountability journalism ' is relevant because it points out the people who violate the law and who have not yet been arrested, keeping them to account. Shirky's example of ' accountability journalism ' is Pater John Geoghan's storey 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? Clay Shirky indicates that the development of quality journalism was based on ad-supported newspapers. Nevertheless, advertisers were forced to overpay for the services they provided, because there were not many options to providing display ads to people. At a point above what any potential market would bare you have to be commercial. 3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This mea...

1) Type up your  feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). i got a D, no feedback given 2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your  target grade  for A Level Media? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in this paper? I didn't reach my grade goal as I was 1 below it. To meet my target grade for the exam section, I need to hit about 8 marks. The grade boundaries for this paper: A* = 78; A = 68; B = 56; C = 46; D = 36; E = 26. Now read through the AQA  mark scheme . This is vital as the paper was an official specimen exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce. The  original question paper is here  if that is helpful too. 3) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points that you ...

I News:  Coronavirus live updates: the latest news as Boris Johnson chairs Cobra meeting after UK cases rise to 273 Boris Johnson presides over an emergency Cobra meeting on Monday to assess the UK's response to the coronavirus outbreak following the nation's third disease-linked death. A man who had underlying health issues in his 60s died at North Manchester General Hospital after checking Covid-19 for positive. According to the latest information from the Department of Health and Social Care, there are more than 110,000 cases around the world, and at least 273 in the UK. This story appeals to the audience because Boris Johnson is home to the UK meaning that people can relate and Coronavirus also affects a lot of people making it very appealing Revealed: One of Britain's first gay fathers is now expecting surrogate triplets with his daughter's ex-boyfriend  Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 50, and his 55-year-old partner Tony, who became the first sam...

Blog tasks: The decline in print media Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption 2019 Read  this Ofcom 2019 report on the consumption of news in the UK . Note down the key statistics and changes that Ofcom highlight and answer the following questions: 1) Look at the key findings from the report on pages 2-3. How do UK adults generally get their news?  Many people in the UK are usually getting their news from the TV. 2) Read the overall summary for adults on pages 7-8. What do you notice about the changing way adults are getting their news? Most adults watch television in order to receive their daily news dose. However, the proportion has been rising over the years due to the rise in social media. 3) Look at the summary of platforms used on page 13. What do you notice about newspapers and how has it changed since 2018? In 2018, the number of people reading newspapers dropped by 2 per cent in 2019. 4) Now look at the demographic summary for news platforms on page 15. What au...