Journalism, mass media and communication
Project description
Story analysis:
Analyse a story from a newspaper, magazine or website. Issues you could address include target readership, news values, the selection and use of sources, choice of news angle, use of language, layout and editorial agenda.
Include a copy of the article as an appendix to your assigmment.
1) You should start the essay by writing an introduction which sets out what the essay will be arguing.
2)Then you should briefly describe the article and the newspaper (say the newspapers readership, politics etc)
3)Then you should analyse the article. Begin with saying why it was a good (or bad) story. For this you could apply evidence such as News Values (if you dont know what they are try and research ‘Harcup and O’Neil News Values’.
4)Then discuss the sources.information about what the sources are saying and why the newspaper has used those sources and those quotes.
5)Then maybe think about why the article has been written in the way it has. Think politics – do they handle this in a fair way? talk also about left and right wing
6)Then talk about the images. – say how and why the pictures effect the story and why this newspaper in particular picked those images.
7)Then you could write a conclusion which sums up your main points.
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