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The Press
University Foundation Course
Presentation focus
British Newspapers
Presentation Overview
Overview of national newspapers
Differences in Style
Bias
Circulation
Brainstorm: which British newspapers do you know?
The Times
The Guardian
The Daily Telegraph
The Financial Times
The Independent
The Observer
Daily Express
Daily Mail
The Mirror
The Sun
The News of the World
What do you know about British newspapers?
National – Heavyweights
The Times
The Guardian
The Daily Telegraph
The Financial Times
The Independent
The Observer
What do you know about British newspapers?
National – Mid-Market
Daily Express
Daily Mail
What do you know about British newspapers?
National – Red-Tops
The Mirror
The Sun
The News of the World
Differences in Style
The Front Page
Broadsheet Tabloid
Differences in Style
The Front Page
Broadsheet Tabloid
Language
Photos
Typeface
Scale
Colour
Design
Bias
Very often, the same story will be presented in completely different ways by different newspapers…
Important questions:• Is the newspaper presenting the whole story?
• Whose voice are we hearing? (who owns the newspaper?)
• How is the news presented to its readers?
• Does any of this influence how we feel about the news?
BiasThe Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is well-known for it’s strong right-wing (conservative) outlook.
“The common perception of it is still as a paper read by retired colonels in south-east English villages”
British Newspapers Online, www.britishpapers.co.uk
Bias
the guardian Left-of-centre Traditional supporter of the
Labour Party “…a favourite with students,
teachers, social workers…It’s generally pro-European, pro-welfare state, pro-civil rights”
British Newspapers Online, www.britishpapers.co.uk
Bias
The Daily Mail
A right-wing paper for the middle-classes, hated by Guardian readers for it’s anti-Europe, anti-immigration,
anti-liberal position. Strong supporter of the Conservative Party.
“Articles tend to be written in one of two tones – either sycophantic praise of the lifestyles of middle-class role models..., or (more
usually) moral outrage at the ever-increasing wickedness…of the modern world.”
British Newspapers Online, www.britishpapers.co.uk
Bias
THE SUNPOPULIST
SENSATIONAL HEADLINES
PAGE THREE STUNNERS
Supported The Conservatives in 1980s and early 1990s (Thatcher to Major)
Switched support to New Labour in 1997 (Blair)
National Newspaper Circulation
The Biggest Daily is…The Sun
3,060,447
The Second Biggest is…The Daily Mail
2,184,165
National Newspaper Circulation
The Biggest Quality Paper is…The Daily Telegraph
843,196
In comparison, The Guardian…354,272
National Newspaper Circulation
The Biggest Sunday Paper is…The News of the World
3,138,782
In comparison, The Observer…455,130
Source for Circulation figures: The Guardian, 10th November 2008
