THE MIRROR Research and key questions

1. Who owns Reach Plc? :  Trinity Mirror PLC

2. What other newspapers and media products  do Reach Plc own? : Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday People, Daily Record, Daily Star, OK!, Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo Birmingham Mail and Bristol Post.

3. What ways can audiences access this newspaper?  :  Using the website or app or reading the actual newspaper. 

3(a)How much content can you access for free and what type of content is available? : On The Mirror website you can access the news but also includes shop, voucher codes, offers, bingo etc. and all of it is completely free 

4. Visit the website of some of the other  newspapers Reach Plc owns and read some of their articles. What political agenda or bias do they hold? : Reach PLC is politically aligned to the left wing 

5. What evidence of this do you have? : Trinity Mirror who owns Reach PLC is a Left wing company

 6. Who is the intended readership (audience) for The Daily Mirror. You must consider the demographic profile and the psychographic profile. : The Mirror's targeted audience is younger audiences as it is a tabloid newspaper and are people who " want something to laugh about and who don't take politics seriously" 

 

THE TIMES : Research and key questions

 Who owns News Corp?: The Walt Disney Company 

What other companies belong to News Corp?: News Corp Australia, News UK, Dow Jones, Harper Collins publishers, Storyful and Move 

Do News Corp own any other newspapers? : News Corp owns several high profit US newspapers like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post Community Newspaper Group, The Times,  

What ways can audiences access this Newspaper? :  Audiences can access this Newspaper traditionally or through the internet using apps and websites. 

5. Visit the website of some of the newspapers News Corp owns ( including The Times )and read some of their articles. What political agenda do they hold? :  New Corp is politically aligned with the Conservative party after changing from Labour to Conservatives in 2005

6. Is all of the news content on The Times website freely accessible ?  Why not ? : No because newspapers are rarely being brought nowadays with the development with technology all the news is available instantly so newspaper companies had to adapt to survive offering subscriptions to their website offering special incentives the more you pay. 

7. What evidence of this do you have? : The subscription page details the prices and incentives you receive like the Digital with Print bundle for £43 giving you a 34% discount on the print version of The Times 

 8. Who is the intended readership (audience) for The Times. You must consider the demographic profile and the psychographic profile.  : The Times' intended audience is largely middle class and are classified in social codes as ABC1 which are the Upper Middle class (A) , Middle class (B) and Lower Middle Class (C1)  

Newspapers

 Tabloid and Broadsheet :Tabloid papers like the Daily Mirror target a much younger audience using flashy colours and reports on more sensational crime, Gossip and television whereas Broadsheet which focuses more on Politics, major world news and is larger at 57 cm. 

Tabloid Newspapers attracting upper middle class and higher as the use of more sophisticated  vocabulary and a lot of text in articles and less photos whereas tabloid newspapers use very simple language attracting the working class also having less text and more photos to help attract their targeted audiences

Ownership :The Daily Mirror is owned by a parent company called Reach plc which is owned by Jonathan  Harmsworth Reach plc also owns other Tabloid newspapers like the Daily express, Sunday people, Daily record, Daily star and OK!

The Times is owned by a parent company called News UK which is owned by News Corp. News UK also owns other newspapers like The Sun

Political Bias : 

Media Research - Magazine

  I have chosen to analyse "Comic-con" magazine as it links in with the sci-fi genre which links with my coursework.

Instantly the typical conventions within magazines are presented like the masthead also the front cover having close ups of characters and is insinuated that these are characters in an American television show "Supernatural" and the colour scheme of the magazine helps people quickly understand what genre and style the magazine is predominantly focusing on the sci-fi genre having bright vaporwave aesthetic this design helps attract its targeted audience which is a younger more tech-savvy demographic the bright colours also making it stand out in the rows of other magazines.    

Media Research - Mockumentary

 A Mockumentary is a a piece of media which takes the form of a serious documentary but satirising the subject usually having comedic undertones and also follow the typical conventions within documentaries like an authoritative voice-over narrator and incorporating interviews with supposed "experts" parodying traditional documentary conventions.

A similar mockumentary to mine is The Fourth Kind (2009) is an alien abduction mockumentary which involves an unsolved mystery in Alaska involving an unordinary amount of disappearances and accusations of a federal coverup. My mockumentary focuses on multiple accusations of alien encounters.