Wednesday 24 March 2010

task 3 evaluation

This task relates to task 1, and to gain a Merit or Distinction in this unit you will need to look at 1 media industry in more detail. For you chosen industry you will need to explain the structure of that industry,

Employment: Newspaper

Companies that exist in this industry:
The Times-The Sunday Times (National)
The Sun-The News of the World (National)
The Daily Mirror-The Sunday Times (Mirror Group)
The Guardian-The Observer (Media)
The Crawley Observer-The Crawley News (Local)
The West Sussex Gazette (Local)
The Daily Mail-The Sunday Mail (Associated)
London Evening Standard (Evening Standard)
The Independent-The Sunday Independent (Media)
The Daily Telegraph-The Sunday Telegraph (Media Group)
The People (Mirror Group)

Include some facts and figures:

Total Readership of the Newspapers:



UNWEIGHTED SAMPLE20475
EST.POPULATION 15+ (000s)25424
Daily Newspapers - 6 Day AIR
The Sun 13.6%
Daily Mail 9.9%
Daily Mirror/Record8.3%
Daily Mirror 6.4%
Daily Record 1.9%
The Daily Telegraph 3.5%
The Times 2.9%
Daily Star 2.1%
Daily Express 3.1%
The Guardian 2.1%
The Independent 1.1%
Financial Times 0.4%




The people who read...
The Sun would be DE class men and women.
The Daily Mail would be C1 and C2and c2 class men and women.
The Daily Mirror would be DE class men and women.
The Daily Telegraph would be C1 and C2 class men and women.
The Times would be AB class adults.
The Daily Star would be C1 and C2 class men and women.
The Daily Express would be C1 and C2 class adults
The Guardian would be AB class men and women.
The Independent would be ABC1 and ABC1C2 class adults.
The Financial Times would be AB class adults.

A: Upper Middle Class-higher managerial, administrative or professional.
B: Middle Class-intermeiate managerial, administrative or professional.
C1: Lower Middle Class-supervisory or clerical and junior managerial, administrative or professional.
C2: Skilled Working Class-skilled manual workers.
D:Working Class-semi and unlike manual workers.
E: Those at the lowest levels of subsistence-casual or lowest grade workers, pensioners and others who depend on the welfare state for the income.

discription of the corporations that own the major companies in this sector:

The News Corporation that own seven of the major companies above are...

News International: It's owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation until June 2002,when it became News International PLC, the corporation major titles are published by three main companies, Times Newspaper Ltd, News Group Newspapers and NI Free Newspaper Limited.

News of the World: The News of the World is a british tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. It is published byNews Group Newspapers of NewsInternational, itself is subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and can be considered the Sunday sister paper of the Sun.

The Sun: The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Also known as the Irish Sun) with the highest circulation of any daily English Language newspaper in the world, standing at an average of 2,972,763 copies a day in February 2010.
It is published by the News Group Newspaper of News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Mudoch's News Corporation.

The Sunday Times: The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspaper Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which turned out to be owned by News Corporation owned by Rupert Mudoch.

The Times: The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since the year 1785, when it was known as the Daily Universial Register.
The Times and it's sister paper the Sunday Times are published by Times Newspaper Limited, a subsidiary of News International. News International is entirely owned by the News Corporation Group, headed by Rupert Mudoch.

Times Literary Supplement: The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of thr News Corporation Group owned by Rupert Mudoch.

Rupert Mudoch: Keith Rupert Mudoch (born in March the 11th 1831) is an Australian-born American media mogul. He is the founder, a major shareholder, chairman, and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp). Beginning with one newspaper in Adelaide, Mudoch aqquired and started publications in his native Australia before expanding News Corp in the Unaited Kingdom, United States and Asian Media Markets.

The Sun is structured by the News of the World, The Gaurdian by the Observer, The Times by the Sunday Times and the Daily Mirror by the Sunday Mirror, each structure of the sister newspapers represents the same as any other newspaper with the news of the day, the funny pages, competitons, the sale ads, the job ads, the house ads and the car ads, except for all of this is printed and sold during the weekend and tells you what happens throughout the world during the two days when we get time off work.

The Popularity of The Sun Newspaper:

The Sun newspapers is by far the most popular newspaper ever to be printed in the UK because it was established in the year 1964 so it's forty six years old this year, it has a national coverage of what's happening in the world, the calculation total range of The Sun is 1,000,000,
also known as one million copies sold in a year and the total range of Newsreaders who buy and read The Sun is 3,000,000, also known as three million readers a year.

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